Jim Cooperman

Author of the local best seller, Everything Shuswap, Jim Cooperman moved to the Shuswap in 1969 as a war resister and a back-to-the-lander, after receiving his BA from the University of California at Berkeley. Over the succeeding years, Jim taught school, worked in construction and log building, operated a sawmill, and edited a provincial environmental journal, the BC Environmental Report. His local environmental work led to the protection of over 25,000 hectares of new parks in the Shuswap, which is documented in the book, Big Trees Saved, by Deanna Kawatski. He has researched and written about local history and helped initiate and edit the local history journal, Shuswap Chronicles I and II. In 1993, he wrote the Chapter on Canada in Clearcut – The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. And in 1998, he wrote Keeping the Special in Special Management Zones, A Citizens’ Guide, published by BC Spaces for Nature. Jim lives with his wife, Kathleen, in a log home they built on 40 acres above Shuswap Lake, where they raised five children. His column, “Shuswap Passion,” appears every two weeks in either the Shuswap Market News or the Salmon Arm Observer. Additionally, his YouTube channel has over 100 videos, including many that showcase live music, skiing and Shuswap geography.

Nov 21 2014

Shuswap’s only tailings dam

The Shuswap Economy

With the valuable ore removed, all that is left in the Samatosum mine’s open pit is rusty, acidic water Given the elevated concerns about mine […]

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Nov 7 2014

Shuswap Lake pollution report leaves questions

Environment

It is a massive report, through a modeling exercise, that provides detailed data about the sources of nutrients that enter Shuswap Lake and yet it

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Oct 23 2014

The First Nation traditional salmon fishery was sustainable

History

This sketch of a weir is from Dawson’s 1891 Notes on the Shuswap People and was from photo taken of the Nicola River in 1889.

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Oct 3 2014

Return to Humamilt Lake

Environment

This map of the lake shows wetlands (in white) and protected old growth management areas (in brown) – Note the two narrow passages and the

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Sep 18 2014

Return to Hunakwa Lake

Environment

This aerial photo by famed wilderness photographer Myron Kozak was on the 1996 Western Canada Wilderness Committee’s calender It is one of the Shuswap’s truly

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