Nature-Based
Restoration
Grounded & Led By Indigenous Values & Laws
Nature-Based
Restoration
Grounded & Led By Indigenous Values & Laws
About Us
The SRSS is an indigenous-led restoration society that aims to advance the sustainable management of lands and resources, restore degraded lands, and drive landscape adaptation to climate change.
Our Projects
The SRSS is a collaboration between Secwépemc communities to restore the land, and build in-community capacity to undertake restoration work throughout Secwepemcúl’ecw. We manage projects that range from watershed restoration to managing post-fire mushroom harvest.
Our Projects
The SRSS is a collaboration between Secwépemc communities to restore the land, and build in-community capacity to undertake restoration work throughout Secwepemcúl’ecw. We manage projects that range from watershed restoration to managing post-fire mushroom harvest.
2BT Planting & Nursery Expansion
SRSS is participating in the 2 billion Trees (2bt) program to motivate and support new tree planting projects. Over a period of 10 years, by 2031, up to $3.2 billion will be invested in tree planting efforts to help provinces, territories, third-party organizations (for-profit and not for profit) and Indigenous organizations to plant two billion…
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Seed School and Collection
SRSS is participating in the 2 billion Trees (2bt) program to motivate and support new tree planting projects. Over a period of 10 years, by 2031, up to $3.2 billion will be invested in tree planting efforts to help provinces, territories, third-party organizations (for-profit and not for profit) and Indigenous organizations to plant two billion…
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Natural Capital Valuation
NATURAL CAPITAL OF THE ELEPHANT HILL WILDFIRE AREA The Elephant Hill Wildfire of 2017 was hugely destructive and disruptive to SRSS communities. It also affected the natural capital of the area, including valuable ecosystem services that the SRSS communities rely upon. There is increasing recognition that losses of ecosystem services represent tangible economic impacts. SRSS…
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Elephant Hill: Secwépemc leadership and lessons learned
In the summer of 2017, wildfires burned a record-breaking 1.2 million hectares throughout British Columbia, driven by the combined impacts of climate change and the legacy of past fire suppression and industrial forest management over the past century. Amongst the largest was the ‘Elephant Hill’ fire, which burned close to 200,000 hectares throughout the heartland of the Secwépemc Nation….
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Carbon Monitor Training
In British Columbia, WWF-Canada is supporting the Secwepemcúl’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society in its long-term commitment to restore fire-impacted forests in the traditional territories of the Secwepemc people. By planting 500,000 seedlings over three years through an approach grounded in Indigenous rights and leadership, this project will yield a cumulative net emissions equal to -13,142…
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Secwépemc FREP Culture and Heritage Monitoring Protocol Evaluation Project
The Secwépemc Cultural Heritage Evaluation project is a collaborative pilot project with the Forest Range Evaluation Program (FREP). This project is to evaluate and create a Secwépemc Cultural Heritage (CHR) Monitoring Protocol. The last update to the Protocol was in 2016. There have been challenges with the current Protocol, as it has not met the…
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Funding Partners
Funding Partners
News & Events
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February News
2021 brings an exciting new chapter to our work restoring lands in the Elephant Hill Wildfire area. Last year, field crews from Secwepemc communities gathered data to determine the areas that continue to show poor recovery. Using this information and knowledge about the land, we created an ambitious plan aimed at restoring as much riparian…
