DIRECTIONS:

For contributing your images and Information for your

ecological reserve web page on the FER website.

The Friends of Ecological Reserves is starting a new initiative to enable volunteer wardens, educators, researchers, and others with interests in ecological reserves to submit their field notes, annual reports and images for inclusion on a webpage devoted to each reserve.

Following are the directions to be able to do this. One does not need to know how to build a webpage since all that is needed are your contributions, and the pages will be assembled for you. If you already run a website which profiles an ecological reserve, then an index page will be produced which links to that page.

A version of this article with live links can be found at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/ecoreserve/ferinstruct.htm

Directions:

1. Go to the Field Notes and Image Gallery page of the FER website. http://www.ecoreserves.bc.ca/fieldnotes.html

2. You will see examples of two Ecological reserves which have links. The first one, #97 Race Rocks , leads to a sample template contents page carried on the FER website, which provides links to already established parts of websites relating to Race Rocks.

3. The second one, #136 Comox Lakes Bluffs, goes to the same type of template contents page, with references to the resources provided in a separate folder carried on the FER website.

4. From the "Contact Us " page , http://www.ecoreserves.bc.ca/contactfer.html where you are directed to send your images or written information to ecoreserves@hotmail.com.

5. Indicate in the subject line of the e-mail to forward to the webmaster, Tom Gillespie. Your pictures should not be over 1Megabyte in size, however, if you can't compress them, send them individually.

6. If you have video, let us know and we will communicate with you on whether it is possible to include it.

New Addition:. We will be adding a link on the template contents page developed for each reserve to the Panoramio website: http://www.panoramio.com which will take you directly to images of any reserve that has had submissions done on it. If you enter a search for Comox Lake or Race Rocks on their home page, you can see some of the images already installed. Pictures from both these reserves have now been accepted for inclusion in Google Earth. Note that these pictures also have links back to various parts of the websites. If you have photos from any ecological reserve that you wish to publish on Google Earth, just register on the Panoramio site and follow the directions. If you need further help. Contact Garry Fletcher.