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.

Mar 27 2014

B.C.’s sorry state of forest management

Environment

One of many massive slash piles to be burnt in B.C.’s forests Forestwatch is a listserve with over 100 members that has been active in […]

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Mar 21 2014

Shuswap and Mara Lakes are rich ecosystems

Environment

Since Shuswap and Mara Lakes are the source of drinking water for a large percentage of the region’s population, some residents have referred to the

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Mar 7 2014

Building our “hippie log mansion!”

Memoirs

Our “hippie log mansion” today In the summer of 1970, I had just finished post-graduate work at the Professional Development Program at Simon Fraser University

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Mar 7 2014

Shuswap’s Species at Risk

Environment

One way to gauge the environmental health of the Shuswap is by understanding how well rare species are fairing, given the growing impacts from resource

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Feb 21 2014

Mining the Shuswap, part two

History

1862 map showing trail location to the Columbia No discussion of mining in the Shuswap would be complete without a review of the early Cherry

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