Jim Cooperman

Jim Cooperman

Biographic Abstract - Jim Cooperman Author of the local best seller, Everything Shuswap, Jim Cooperman moved to the Shuswap in 1969 as a war resister and a back-to-the-lander, after receiving his BA from the University of California at Berkeley. Over the succeeding years, Jim taught school, worked in construction and log building, operated a sawmill, and edited a provincial environmental journal, the BC Environmental Report. His local environmental work led to the protection of over 25,000 hectares of new parks in the Shuswap, which is documented in the book, Big Trees Saved, by Deanna Kawatski. He has researched and written about local history and helped initiate and edit the local history journal, Shuswap Chronicles I and II. In 1993, he wrote the Chapter on Canada in Clearcut – The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. And in 1998, he wrote Keeping the Special in Special Management Zones, A Citizens’ Guide, published by BC Spaces for Nature. Jim lives with his wife, Kathleen, in a log home they built on 40 acres above Shuswap Lake, where they raised five children. His column, “Shuswap Passion,” appears every two weeks in either the Shuswap Market News or the Salmon Arm Observer. Additionally, his YouTube channel has over 100 videos, including many that showcase live music, skiing and Shuswap geography.

Oct 20 2017October 9, 2020

Back to the land in the 21st century

The Shuswap Economy

There is a slowly growing movement back to the land, as more twenty and thirty year-olds move to the country and take up farming. I …

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Oct 5 2017October 9, 2020

New parks for the Shuswap?

Environment

Anstey Hunakwa Provincial Park, photo by Myron Kozak There is a good possibility that the new government in Victoria will revive land use planning and …

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Sep 21 2017October 9, 2020

Where farming is a way of life

Communities

The cozy, unincorporated communities of Mara and Grindrod are nestled into the picturesque lower Shuswap River Valley, where the meandering placid river, green pastures and …

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Sep 13 2017October 9, 2020

Studying the Shuswap now possible

Culture

The view from Bastion Mountain, photo by Wendy Clay Secondary school students returning to Shuswap schools this fall have a new resource to use that …

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