Kate Borucz Interview – Living with the Land

Kate Borucz, executive director of the North Columbia Environmental Society, discusses peoples’ connection to the river.

Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning into wheat on the left end. The title “Stories Beneath the Surface” is circled around the image in capital letters.

Interview with Kate Borucz – a white woman with blonde hair. Wearing a grey toque, black vest, and blue shirt.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives logo in the bottom right hand corner.

Transcript of Narration:

Every person has a very unique connection to the river, you know.

Whether it’s a personal one where it’s just somewhere you come to meditate or if it’s something where you go to bring your dog on a on a walk or if it’s somewhere you come to look at migrating birds, you know.

Every person has their own personal relationships to the river, um, and those are the the social re-relationships we have with the river but there is also a lot of economy that- that’s tied into it.

Whether it be through recreation or in the past it was-it was logging.

Um, you know, currently, it’s-it’s-it’s hydro.

So there’s a lot of different aspects that play into the importance of the river.

Um, and, and we have to take into consideration everyone’s opinions and their connections to the river because your connection to the river is different than mine, is different from the person who works at the dam, is different from the person who fishes downstream.

So, we all have to kind of have an understanding of the community that, that lives on the river banks to get a better perspective of how it could be protected.