National Observer. Benji Britton, who grew up on Quadra Island and attends high school in Campbell River, has produced an award-winning student film on fly fishing-conservation. He is arguably a living example of how engagement with one’s natural surroundings always occurs at the local level – while simultaneously contributing to the global mosaic. Britton’s taking up fly-fishing, led him to conservation, and then to making a video of his experiences. “It’s art for me, but as well, it’s an outlet for my beliefs, and what I want to share to the world.” Where better to learn and apply the lessons of the importance of local action than in Campbell River, on the same waters and in the same community where Roderick Haig-Brown fished and wrote? [ARTICLE LINK]