UPDATE - FEB 28

Check out Angel Hamilton's  video about Don Staniford's trial as well as Michelle singing a salmon song dedicated to Don.

UPDATE - FEB 22

Info on this year's Ripple Relay and Foolish April Fish  have been posted

UPDATE - JAN 26

Calendar update - Raise your voice for the Great Bear Rainforest.

Check out an update of Wild Salmon Warrior DON STANIFORD's trial.

UPDATE - JAN 25

Check out calendar updates including a MCLENNAN WATERSHED ALLIANCE fundriaser - "A Night for wild Salmon"

UPDATE - DEC 13, 2011

Rebel City Launching Party - Dec 15, 2011

Dec 15th, 16th, 19th - Cohen Commission re-opens for ISA virus hearings.  Check out the Live Streaming online.

UPDATE - DECEMBER 8, 2011

Lot's of updates to the website happening. Have a look around.

Online AGM December 12 - 24th - email info@ripplerelay.ca to attend

UPDATE - DECEMBER 5, 2011

The Ripple Effect welcomes the Rebel City Committee.

UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Route distances have been roughly calculated.  Total distance including shuttles and rides = 2934.2 km. Total distance biked = 2719.2 km.

The Ripple Effect will be presenting on this year's Ripple Relay at  "INQUIRY: A Wild Salmon Arts Exhibition" - Gallery Gachet, Saturday September 3rd, 2pm

Check out the Cohen Commission next week.  Alex Morton is on the stand Wednesday and Thursday.

UPDATE - AUGUST 30, 2011

Check out Michelle's interview with Warren Rudd as the 2011 Ripple Relay rides into the Cohen Commission. Pictures coming soon.

UPDATE - AUGUST 29, 2011

Press Release for Aug 29, 2011 is up. This year's Ripple Relay is now officially complete.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this trip not only possible but a success. Trip blogs will be up shortly. Check for daily quick updates on Facebook Group page.

UPDATE - AUGUST 17, 2011

More trip blog posted.

UPDATE - AUGUST 10, 2011

Route Schedule has been updated.

UPDATE - AUGUST 4, 2011

Check out CKPG and The Citizen's coverage of the 2011 Ripple Relay. New trip blog entries are up.

UPDATE - AUGUST 1, 2011

Enjoying the 1st and only full day of rest!  New trip blog entries are up. Route Schedule has been updated.  Click on "map" to see the map for day.

UPDATE - JULY 29, 2011

This year's relay has started off really well.  The route is more physically challenging with towing a trailer as well as riding the whole distance rather than leap frogging.  Check out updates on our Facebook Event or Group.  Trip Blog is now posted.

UPDATE - JULY 20, 2011

Check out what the Straight.com had to say about this summer's Ripple Relay.

UPDATE - JULY 6, 2011

The 2011 Ripple Relay poster is now up.

UPDATE - MAY 5, 2011

May 1st Newsletter is up!

APRIL 29, 2011

Check out photos from this year's Foolish April Fish Farm Swim!

UPDATE - APRIL 28, 2011

Join Alexandra Morton on May 1st in Victoria!

UPDATE - APRIL 20, 2011

Together with Salmon are Sacred, Ripple Effect member Michelle will circumnavigate a fish farm April 26 with 2 other swimmers to draw attention to the continued presence of fish farms killing wild salmon. As Alexandra Morton points out, DFO is mandated to uphold the precautionary principle until the evidence piliing up against fish farms is disproven. They're not doing that.

Check out Daniel's Watershed Running Initiative which will extend the concept of using our physical bodies as the one great asset we can always give to do watershed length phsyical feats.  The first run will be the McLennan Watershed on April 23.

UPDATE - MAR 18, 2011

Join this year's Foolish April Fish Campaign!

UPDATE - MAR 17, 2011t

The route for the 2011 Ripple Relay has been drafted. Email info@ripplerelay.ca if you would like to connect with the relay as it rides through your community.

UPDATE - NOV 24, 2010

The Fraser River Ripple Effect will be launching Ripple Effect Geocaching in 2011. 

UPDATE - NOV 23, 2010

2011 Ripple Relay has now been put up on the website.  Next April's Foolish April Fish Campaign is shaping up.  Events are being planned.  Check the calendar and www.foolishaprilfish.com website for details

UPDATE - OCT 28, 2010

Video from Michelle speaking at the Cohen is now posted. Next Ripple Effect meeting will be Nov 6th at 1:00

UPDATE - OCT 27, 2010

Michelle's submission for the Cohen Commision public forum in Kamloops is posted.  Video coming soon.  Check out new photos from the Paddle For Wild Salmon

UPDATE - OCT 5, 2010

Check out the new videos and photos in the Blog section. The Fraser River Ripple Effect Relay and Fundraiser Society has recieved its Certification of Incorporation.

UPDATE - SEPTEMPER 28, 2010

New pictures and Journals up. Check out the articles written in various community on our "In the News".  Michelle will be presenting findings from the Wild Salmon Express to the Cohen Commission in Kamloops on October 21st and then joining Salmon Are Sacred in their Paddle for Wild Salmon which will paddle into False Creek and end with  the commencement of the Cohen Inquiry evidentiary hearing.

WILD SALMON EXPRESS

 UPDATE - AUGUST 24, 2010

New Blog up, some pictures too. Come Join us 6:00 Aug 26th at the Swaneset longhouse on Katzie Territory.

UPDATE - AUGUST 14, 2010

Blog and video pages updated

UPDATE - AUGUST 11, 2010

Approximate meeting times and places for riders joining the Wild Salmon Express have been added to the Route Map Page for August 23-25th

UPDATE - AUGUST 7, 2010

Check out updated routes and stopping points on the Route Map Page

UPDATE - AUGUST 1, 2010

New pictures, video and blog from Day 1

UPDATE - JULY 24, 2010

New Pages Updated: Campaign Partners, About us Events page, Route map and Join us

Check out new Blog

UPDATE - JULY 21, 2010

Route stop locations have been updated,

UPDATE - JULY 17, 2010

Check out the new routes for Aug 27 through Aug 31.  Our final destination will  be Musqueam/Vancouver

PRESS RELEASE JULY 12, 2010

 

Calling residents of the Fraser River Basin,

Come out to meet the Wild Salmon Express (WiSE) on its 4000 km journey through the Fraser River Basin and your community this August, 2010.  Come share salmon stories with us as we traverse the rivershed.  Come join us near the road side and the rivers, and share and hear about the salmon initiatives happening around you. 

The 2010 Wild Salmon Express will travel the Fraser River Basin from August 1 through Aug 31, 2010. These wild salmon supporters will cycle through the Fraser's 13 sub-watersheds with a mission of connecting the voices, the stories, the knowledge, the concerns and the people who live near the waters of the Fraser River, enabling people to take concrete action based on watershed wisdom to promote the sustainability of salmon stocks for future generations.  The physical feat will be undertaken as a means of drawing people together in support of the Pacific wild salmon runs. This summer's Ripple Relay of the Fraser River is a 31 day long Tour de Fraser in the season when spawning sockeye salmon travel upriver. The 2010 Wild Salmon Express aims to connect with First Nations and non First-Nations, their leaders young and old, MPs, MLAs, local government representatives, fishermen, conservationists....and salmon enthusiasts of all sorts.

Come join us!

Come join us as we stop in at various rest stops and points of interest including hatcheries, dams, stream contamination sites, paved streams and discovery centres. 

Come join us cycling from community to community with salmon banners and flags.

Especially, come sign and deliver postcards addressed to MP Fin Donnelly supporting Bill C-518 calling for closed containment for fish farms.

Come take your picture with the salmon and take part in our Facebook Profile Picture challenge.

Come sign our banner to be delivered to the start of the Cohen Inquiry's evidentiary hearings in October.

Come learn about what is happening to the salmon and learn what actions you can take to keep and care for wild salmon forever.

Come out to meet us and act for the wild salmon. 

Support the Salmon!
We are now set-up to receive pledges of support toward awareness, habitat restoration, and Ripple Effect projects, and thank "Salmon-folk" from all over for their generosity in pledging support for this cause. Visit www.ripplerelay.ca and use the PayPal option to contribute or email michelle@ripplerelay.ca for tax receipt option. Our budget to finish the expedition is $4000, and we are now looking to match this as many times over as possible to create a budget to support groups in their salmon conservation efforts. All fundraising above the cost of our event will be put towards the following:
1. fundraising for 2011 full length Fraser River Relay Swim
2. habitat restoration projects from StreamKeepers projects
3. artistic awareness and visibility projects
4. developing a young leader rivershed project development program and corresponding grant delivery structure.

The Schedule

Aug 1 - Mt. Robson to Dunster
Aug 2 - Dunster to Dome Creek
Aug 3 - Dome Creek to Prince George
Aug 4 - Prince George to Vanderhoof
Aug 5 - Vanderhoof to Fraser Lake
Aug 6 - Fraser Lake to Skins Lake
Aug 7 - Skins Lake to Fraser Lake
Aug 8 - Fraser Lake to Prince George
Aug 9 - Prince George to Quesnel
Aug 10 - Quesnel to Soda Creek
Aug 11 - Soda Creek to Williams Lake
Aug 12 - Williams Lake to Canim Lake
Aug 13 - Canim Lake to Blue river
Aug 14 - Blue River to Louis Creek
Aug 15 - Lois Creek to Salmon Arm
Aug 16 - Salmon Arm to Mabel Lake
Aug 17 - Mabel Lake to Sicamous
Aug 18 - Sicamous to Seymour Arm
Aug 19 - Seymour Arm to Kamloops
Aug 20 - Kamloops to Spenses Bridge
Aug 21 - Spenses Bridge to Lillooet
Aug 22 - Lillooet to Yale
Aug 23 - Yale to Cheam, via Chilliwack
Aug 24 - Cheam to Mission via Aggasiz and Stave Falls
Aug 25 - Mission to Kwantlen via Abbostford and Langley
Aug 26 - Kwantlen to Katzie via Whiterock
Aug 27 - Katzie to Burnaby via Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, Port Moody, New West
Aug 28 - Burnaby to Steveston via Richmond
Aug 29 - Steveston to Ladner
Aug 30 - Ladner to Bridgeview
Aug 31 - Bridgeview to Musqueam via Vancouver

Cycling the Fraser River for the sustainability of Pacific salmon, for Wild Salmon, forever