We are fortunate to have this image from the Bella Coola Blog of Sunday, December 18, 2011 The following are the comments on the picture: Itcha and Ilgachuz Mountain Ranges At the risk of messing up real bad in spelling and describing the location of another range of important mountains in the West Chilcotin after
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 2011 Research Coll Df encroachment presentation . This is a presentation of a research program carried out in this ecological reserve. The controversial action was taken to
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
Abstract: Predator effects on prey demography have traditionally been ascribed solely to direct killing in studies of population ecology and wildlife management. Predators also affect the prey’s perception of predation risk, but this has not been thought to meaningfully affect prey demography. We isolated the effects of perceived predation risk in a free-living population of
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
Don Guild Photos: The East Ridge—- Gem Lake 2008,2009—-Upper Lift Terminal next to Gem Lake
Here are a few examples of how the Friends of Ecological Reserves has provided research grants to support biological and ecological research projects related to ecological reserves in British Columbia. Some of the projects that have or are being supported are profiled below. What Lies Below at Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve 2016 : The Friends
From the BC Parks website Trout Creek Ecological Reserve Management Planning BC Parks is preparing a management plan for Trout Creek Ecological Reserve. Management Planning Schedule Initial planning and Terms of Reference Approval (in progress) Initial Public Input (closes January 31, 2012) and Development of the Draft Management Plans (2012) Draft Management Plans Open for
On October 24, 2011, the ecoguardian Ryan Murphy took a picture of a coonstripe shrimp (you can see part of its yellow leg showing in this blow-up). In his photo background, he also captured by chance the first record of this new species for the Race Rocks Taxonomy files. See this file for the story
“The Log” is the newsletter produced by Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER). All the issues are available electronically. For a list of all issues of The Log and their contents see the Newsletter Archive. For a description of The Log see About Friends.
This report is from the Shuswap Naturalists Club: Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve This Reserve was established in 1972 to protect unique calcareous fens. Fourteen of BC’s thirty-two orchid species, including four which are considered rare, grow in these fens. The determining factor in having this fen set aside as an ecological reserve was the rare
We have been granted permission to include the following images in our gallery of pictures for Mahoney Lake Ecological reserve. The first image, taken in October 2009, is from Marcus Redivos Flickr site, The others are from Sally Taylor’s Flickr pages of Nov 17 2011. Note the vegetation around the lake as it would be
2011 Warden Notes From Warden Laurie Rockwell On 11/04/2011 4:25 PM, Laurie Rockwell wrote: Mark, here are the news from my monthly tour: • I was in the ER from 6.50-9.05 am; walk in and out time was 50 minutes. • at 8.25 it was 7 degrees, with minimal wind and periods of sun. •
Dr. Liana Zanette, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biology , University of Western Ontario has done research on “Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year”. Her website for Zanette Lab carries the most recent research article and has links to excellent images of Song sparrows and their predators, and
This is an article published in the Garry Oak Recovery team newsletter of October 12 , 2011 https://goert.ca/trial-island/
Thanks to Rosemary Taylor for these images The Fraser River Field Trip October 2011
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
Rosemary Taylor was along on the Fraser River Trip of October 7, 2011 doing photography. We came across a small green plant, at first thinking they were seedlings sprouting on a sandbank , I called over Terry Taylor for an identification . He immediately came up with the fact that it was a liverwort,
From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2011 By Rosemary Taylor It has been several years since any gathering between Ecological Reserve wardens and Parks staff has occurred in the Lower Mainland, but on October 7, 2011, just such an event was organized by Bev Ramey (Co-Warden of ER#76, Fraser River Ecological Reserve)
On September 27, 2011, Ryan Murphy, the Ecoguardian at Race Rocks observed a new event, a baby sea lion with its mother hauled out at Race Rocks. Traditionally this has only been a haul out for mature bulls and a smaller number of immature sea lions. The photos in the gallery below were taken by