Issues
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Protecting British Columbia’s Rockfish
PDF file: RCA_Area13 Since the provincial government does not have jurisdiction over fishing, the waters of Race Rocks and some otehr marine ecological reserves are protected by the Federal government's Rockfish Conservation Area strategy. This program prevents fishing in the reserve. The problem is that it may not be permanent, so continued protection of all of the organisms in the water column of marine ecological reserves is never certain. Currently there is a need to properly ...
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Big White Controversy Part 2
A follow-up on The Big White Controversy Part 1 Our Ongoing Concerns for Big White Ecological Reserve #34 February, 2012 In December of 2011 a letter was sent to the Administration of Big White resorts. Website: www.bigwhitesilverstar.com Corporate Head Office 1894 Ambrosi Road Kelowna. I indicated I was redoing the Big White part of the Friends of Ecological reserves website , and that I had some concerns for development overlapping in the ecological reserve as ...
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Invasive Species in Mara Meadows
Oxeye Daisy is the most problematic invasive species in Mara Meadows. Neglected farm fields adjoining the Reserve generate massive quantities of seed which make their way through the meadow, especially along a ditch made by the farmer in an attempt to drain the meadow in the early 1970's The ecological wardens have been picking the daisies manually ...
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Retaining the Flower Meadows
Retaining the Flower Meadows: Douglas-fir Removal at Mount Tzuhalem Ecological Reserve A presentation by Dave Polster at the BC PROTECTED AREAS RESEARCH FORUM , UBC Dec 6, 2011 This is a .PDF of a powerpoint presentation which deals with a case study of a restoration program carried out in this ecological reserve. The controversial action was taken out to prevent the loss of rare plants which ...
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Friends Board Members at BC Protected Areas Research Forum
On Dec 5- 7, 2011 Four members of the Friends of Ecological reserve attended the BC Protected Areas Research Forum at UBC campus in Vancouver. FoER Board members Mike Fenger and Rick page convened a special session entitled: Ecological Reserves Where do we go from here? Management of Ecological Reserves Panelists Vicky Husband, Briony Penn and Don Eastman presented provocative arguments leading to an engaging discussion with the audience on the future of Ecological Reserves in ...
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Big White Controversy Part1
Also See a follow-up at the Big White Controversy Part 2 Proposal to extend the Big White Resort into the Big White Ecological Reserve . The e-mail at the end of this file offers a new video and raises the same concerns we had over a year ago. We involved Don Guild as the Big White ER warden to help the FER board decide what to do in response to the Big White Master Plan. As a ...
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Big White ER Photos 2008
Don Guild Photos: The East Ridge---- Gem Lake 2008,2009----Upper Lift Terminal next to Gem Lake
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Lower Mainland Ecoreserve Warden Concerns, Oct 7, 2011 Field Trip
Lower Mainland Ecological Reserve Warden Concerns – for discussion with BC Parks staff (compiled by Bev Ramey for October 7, 2011 Field Trip) ER #21 Skagit River Forest and ER #22 Ross Lake Warden John Riley not much human impacts on these two reserves see comment re communication with BC Parks under Reserve #89 BC Parks Area Supervisor Darryl Paquette; Darryl.Paquette@gov.bc.ca; 604-824-2306 ER #48 Bowen Island (near Apodaca Provincial Park) Warden Alan Whitehead This ecoreserve is fortunate to be relatively isolated due ...
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Vancouver Island Wardens Meeting, March,2011
From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2011 Click to enlarge images in this article. By Steve Pratt, BC Parks A Vancouver Island Region Wardens Meeting was held on March 9, 2011. In attendance were: Genevieve Singleton, Honeymoon Bay ER; Dave Polster, Mt. Tzuhalem ER; Jenny Balke, Tsitika River ER; Helen & Robbie Robinson, Comox Lake Bluffs ER; Maggie Little, Bowser ER; Bill Merilees, Hudson Rocks ...
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Research Summary For Cleland Island ER #1
Cleland island Listed as important bird area CLAYOQUOT HABITAT OVERVIEW Notes on RECENT BREEDING OF COMMON MURRES at STARLIGHT REEF and CLELAND ISLAND, BC. PDF file Harry R. Carter1, Ken H. Morgan2, Trudy Chatwin3, and Francis Bruhwiler4 Breeding Biology and Twinning Experiments of Rhinocerous Auklets on Cleland Island, BC K.R. Summers and R.H.Drent The Murrelet >Vol. 60, No. 1, Spring, 1979 >
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Robson Bight ( Michael Bigg) ER Potential diasaster
NEWSPAPER STORY: Spilled Oil Caught as Truck Salvaged By Judith Lavoie Excerpted from the May 22, 2009 edition of the Times Colonist A specially designed metal jacket wrapped around a fuel truck that has sat on the ocean floor for almost two years in an environmentally sensitive area is believed to have captured almost all of the oil that spilled as the truck was lifted this week. “It was entirely anticipated that would happen and that’s why ...
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Mount Maxwell Field Trip, May 3 2009
From THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2009 Mount Maxwell Day Trip By Mike Fenger, Marilyn Lambert, Stephen Ruttan and Paul Linton On May 3rd three of the FER Board visited Paul Linton and the Mount Maxwell ER. Background In 1972, a 65-hectare parcel of land was preserved under the Ecological Reserve Act establish- ing Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve. In 2001, The Nature Trust [TNT] acquired 280 hect- ...
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Fuel tanker To Be Recovered
From Canada.com Fuel tanker to be recovered from Robson Bight The provincial and federal governments announced yesterday a fuel tanker and other logging equipment containing pollutants will be recovered from the ocean floor near Robson Bight. April 18, 2008 VICTORIA — The provincial and federal governments announced yesterday a fuel tanker and other logging equipment containing pollutants will be recovered from the ocean floor near Robson Bight. But the salvage operation might not happen before the annual ...
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Feral Goats on Saturna Island ER #15
One of the problems of the biological integrity of natural ecosystems onseveral of the Gulf Islands is the overpopulation and overgrazing by Feral Goats. These goats arrived in the last century or earlier, brought by ship for provisioning of the local residents. They have escaped captivity many years ago and without any natural predators to control them, have become adapted to the mild climate of British Columbia's Gulf Islands and have thrived. Emanuel Borsboom took these ...
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After the Spill- Video and Audio of Robson Bight
6 weeks later the equipment is still leaking in the orcas rubbing beach sanctaury Click for video Link to Orcalab news
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State of BC’s Ecological Reserves Report for 2006
State of Ecological Reserves 2005 final(1)
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Will Honeymoon Bay Ecological Reserve Still Have Erythroniums 50 years from now?
From: THE LOG • FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER • AUTUMN 2005 by David F. Polster, M.Sc., R.P.Bio. Plant Ecologist Construction of the logging road bridge across Sutton Creek at the upstream edge of the ecological reserve has caused a significant change in the hydrology of the creek and consequently the ecology of the reserve. Prior to bridge construction the creek would flood over the banks on an annual basis. This deposited a thin layer of fresh ...
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Honeymoon Bay Ecological Reserve
From THE LOG • FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER • AUTUMN 2005 by Genevieve Singleton Warden, Honeymoon Bay Ecoreserve The late Cedric and Gertie Myers, residents of Honeymoon Bay, well- known naturalists and members of the Cowichan Valley Naturalists were instrumental among others in having the Sutton Creek area of Honeymoon Bay (9 km west of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island) protected for its outstanding populations of Erythronium revolutum. It is a pretty ...
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Mara Meadows logging threat-2004
Forest Practices Board Investigation of Harvesting near Mara Meadows ER The Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve is 15 km east of Salmon Arm and covers 178 ha. It has five red- or blue-listed plants and the greatest known concentration of native orchids from a single location in BC. In 1996 the forest district commissioned a study of the hydrologic impacts of forest development on the ecoreserve. The report recommended further study prior to development. However, in December 1997, ...
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Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve #108 Management Plan:
Table of Contents: Introduction page 6 Background Summary page 6 Role and Long-term Vision page 8 Management Objectives and Five Year Plan page 8 Figures ............ I Introduction Ecological Reserve Purposes As stated in the Ecological Reserve Act of 1971, ecological reserves are established for the following purposes: Scientific research and educational use Representation of natural ecosystems Study of recovery processes after human disturbance Protection of rare and endangered native plants and animals in their natural habitat Protection of other unique and rare botanical, zoological or geological phenomena. Management ...