Goldstream, located on Vancouver Island, ran neon green yesterday.  Someone added a flourescent dye to the water.  The popular salmon stream, running through a provincial park, became as a result the focus of a small media frenzy (with 75 news sources carrying the story online).  According to CTV a smiliar incident occurred last summer on the Salmo River in interior British Columbia.  Is the dye non-toxic?  What motivated this neon statement?  Is this performance art?  Compare the photo of Goldstream below to Edward Burtynsky’s Nickel Tailings #34.

EH+
Writing the Next Chapter of Canadian Environmental History

NiCHE and the Wilson Institute for Canadian History are hosting “EH+”,
a symposium to evaluate the field of Canadian environmental history
thus far, identify future directions with potential national and
international significance, and facilitate collaboration. The 29-30
April and 1 May 2011 event will consist of 50 participants: graduate
students, junior and senior scholars, as well as governmental and
public history partners.  The event is open to historians and
historical geographers studying Canadian environmental history and
those studying other regions in the world at Canadian Universities.
NiCHE and the Wilson Institute will pay travel and subsistence costs.
The symposium will also have a simultaneous online component, allowing
 those unable to attend to participate. For more information see the
event website: http://niche-canada.org/ehplus