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Earth Day at Roderick Haig-Brown Park By Jo Anne Malpass To celebrate Earth Day, three bus loads of students from Chase and Kamloops were treated to a guided tour of Roderick Haig-Brown Park on April 20 with presentations about salmon and their habitat. Opening ceremonies were presided over by The Adams River Salmon Society (ARSS) Vice-President Dave Smith, Event Director Blair Action and indigenous elders Ethel Billy and JD Billy. After a prayer and singing by Ethel Billy, the students divided into four groups for their walkabouts. On the tours, which lasted about an hour, the bio-diversity of the park and the life-cycle of the sockeye was explained. One of the tour directors, Ted Kay, told his group the cycle begins in freshwater in the fall, when a female's nest of eggs is fertilized. These eggs remain in the gravel throughout the winter while the embryos develop. In the spring, the eggs hatch and the young salmon emerge. The fry then spend a year or two in the lake before they begin their migration to the ocean. Sockeye typically spend two years at sea before they start their homeward migration to spawn. Kay said it is suspected that scents play a key role in the salmon’s ability to find their way back to their birth place. He said they turn red because they stop feeding on their journey, using their fat storage, muscles and organs, and
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Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park is named after the great British Columbian writer, conservationist and fly-fisher. HaigBrown served as a member of the International Pacific Salmon Commission and on the boards of many conservation organizations, including the Nature Trust of B.C. Within these organizations Haig-Brown worked for the protection of wild fish stocks and the rivers they inhabit, especially the Adams River. As a result of his work and the contributions of many others, this park was created, and its world-famous run of sockeye salmon preserved
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