For the Love of Nature Project recognizes the support of the Columbia Institute, the Land Conservancy of BC, the Land Trust Alliance of BC, the Centre for Integral Economics, and Royal Roads University Continuing Studies Department. [...] With the opening of a bypass that took the traffic out of the village, the villagers took to the now quiet streets in a great party during which they pledged to rediscover and cherish the wildlife, flora and heritage buildings that they had missed over the years. [...] Unique in the environmental movement of the time, they were drawn to focusing on the small, the particular and the possible rather than the huge, the general and the overwhelming issues of the time. [...] You feel connected.” In addition to practical skills, members have witnessed the deer, the snakes and lizards, the turkey vultures, the songbirds, the hummingbirds and butterflies as well as all the wildflowers come back to this land over the twelve years. [...] The blitz gave much needed public awareness to the property, established the necessary ecological critera for donors and led to the raising of the million dollars to save the land.