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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.
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Nov 4 2011February 15, 2012

How best to boost the Shuswap economy

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In these days of economic turmoil, it is difficult to devise initiatives that would help boost our local economy. Certainly, the efforts of Salmon Arm …

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Oct 21 2011February 15, 2012

What drives the Shuswap economy?

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From the worldwide debt crisis, to the growing Occupy Wall Street protests, to the contentious proposed developments here; the economy is the current hot topic …

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Apr 1 2009March 27, 2014

Forty years of passion

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A Shuswap Passion column for the Shuswap Market News By Jim Cooperman April, 2009 This month marks a milestone in my many years of passion …

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Mar 1 2005March 26, 2019

Inaugural Shuswap Passion column:

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A Passion for the Shuswap March, 2005 Every two months a magazine entitled Okanagan Life arrives in Salmon Arm mailboxes for free.  I have long …

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