Q & A
Samantha Featherstone
- Hometown:
- Collingwood, ON
- What conservation issue is closest to your heart?
- Deforestation and sustainability.
- What are you hoping to learn from CCC?
- I am looking forward to getting to know like-minded individuals and learning about how we can have a greater positive impact on the environment.
- Who/what inspired you to care about conservation?
- My dad! He always took me on nature walks and taught me about the different flora and fauna.
- If you could sit down with anyone in the world and have tea or coffee, who would it be? And why?
- My Oma, because she lives far away and I can always learn something from her.
My Experience So Far
Rocky Mountain Way
Stage 1
For their Stage One adventure, “The Mount10eers” will experience a 14-day hiking/backpacking trip through the Alberta Rocky Mountains. Heading deep into the Rockies, being surrounded by rugged peaks, glacier-carved valleys, mountain lakes and alpine meadows will provide great opportunity for reflection. The experience will teach safe and effective mountain travel, backpacking techniques, minimal-impact camping, navigation and compass work, route-finding skills and how to move across scree and snow-slopes. The journey will also provide a solo experience that can be entirely transformative.
Conservation Field Learning
Stage 2
Outreach and Service
Stage 3
Project focus: Developing a beautification project at a local nursing home that included building a native pollinator garden. The objective for the garden was to improve pollinator habitat, educating residents and staff at the nursing home and improving the aesthetic for residents and essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.