Warden’s Report: On December 27 Martin Stewart provided transportation on the vessel Ecosphere for myself and two local birders, Matthew and Courtney Cameron to go to Race Rocks Ecological Reserve for the Sooke Region annual Bird count. The following link documents the results of that day. https://www.racerocks.ca/christmas-bird-count-at-race-rocks-2020/ Christmas Bird Count records since 1997 for the
See the interactive pdf version of this map: ER #76 Map – boundary 2011 with notes from Oct 24 2020 visit ER #76, Fraser River – October 24, 2020 by Bill & Bev Ramey Sunshine, 2o to 5o C; strong winds from northeast (Arctic outflow) at 35 km/h and gusts even stronger, so this added
Resolution 2020-001 -Ecological Reserves System of British Columbia Submitted by Victoria Natural History Society (VNHS) Resolution 2020-001 – Ecological Reserves System of British Columbia Submitted by Victoria Natural History Society (VNHS) Updated Version Prepared by Jenny Feick for the Friends of Ecological Reserves WHEREAS in 1971, the British Columbia Legislature gave unanimous approval to the
Photos provided by Dr. Bruce Archibald. 1. A rare fossil of a 50 million-year-old wasp of the family Trigonalidae. This small group of parasitoids have complex life histories consuming sequential hosts. First, a caterpillar eats their tiny eggs on leaves. They then enter, live within, and feed upon other parasitoids that are themselves inside and
FROM: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2016 By Fred Beinhauer On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, FER Board members and friends took a field trip to the Lasqueti Island Ecological Reserve # 4. Lasqueti Island is a small island located North of Parksville in the Strait of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and the
Here are some references relevant to the three proposed Eocene Fossil sites in the BC Interior which in the past have been proposed as ecological reserves; 1. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e04-100 Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape1 David R. Greenwood, S. Bruce Archibald, Rolf
From: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/siwe/details.do?projectId=5570&pagerOffset=0 2011-ongoing – Grassland Plants – Long Term Monitoring – BC Parks – Multiple Regions ID: 5570 Coordinator:Tory Stevens Funding Agency: MOE: BC Parks Survey Name.. 2017 – Grassland – Long Term Monitoring – Trout Creek Ecological Reserve Survey Intensity..Inventory Method.. Taxa (Species Code / Scientific Name / English Name) * = Primary Focus
https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/three-fire-departments-called-to-wildfire-at-ecological-reserve-north-of-ladysmith/ North Oyster Fire Department and other crews are at the scene of a wildfire in the Woodley Range Ecological Reserve north of Ladysmith. (Cole Schisler/Ladysmith Chronicle) Multiple fire crews called to wildfire at ecological reserve north of Ladysmith The fire is now under control NANAIMO NEWS STAFF Sep. 8, 2020 3:50 Crews from multiple
By Mary Rannie: Members of the FER board who drove the 2 hour west coast road from Victoria to Port Renfrew on on August 28th, enjoyed a day greatly anticipated. Garry and Helen Fletcher, Marilyn Lambert andMary Rannie had never visited the nearby San Juan River Estuary, ER #141. From May to October its newly
2019 Bowser Ecological Reserve Wardens’ Annual Report by Gerry van der Wolf On behalf of Chris James and Peter Spodzieja February 1, 2019 Gerry and Chris arrived at the ER mid-morning, then checked the plantation road to the fork at 1.8 km. We noted that someone had remove sand with a shovel along the roadside,
2018 Bowser Ecological Reserve Wardens’ Annual Report by Gerry van der Wolf on behalf of Bill Image and Peter Spodzieja January 9 Bill and Gerry arrived at the ER in the early afternoon, noted more yard waste dumped at the main gate, then checked the plantation road to the fork at 1.8 km. We noted
The 2020 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2020 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: British Columbia’s Ecological Reserves, Forgotten Gems? The BC Parks iNaturalist Program BC Nature Supports FER Summary of the FER Old Growth Management Review Funding Conservation & Stewardship Projects in ERs BC Parks
If you want to participate in the BC Parks iNaturalist Project by submitting pictures of flora and fauna in the ecological reserve(s) that you care for and/or visit, but you feel uncertain about how to enter your observations, BC Parks is providing a webinar from 3:00-4:00 pm PST on Monday, June 29 via Zoom. The
Ecoreserve wardens can submit proposals for conservation and stewardship projects to regional BC Parks staff to be considered for funding through the Parks Enhancement Fund, which the BC Parks License Plates program funds. BC Parks issued the call for proposals on June 5. The June 26th. deadline is coming up soon! For details, see https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2020/06/05/bc-parks-enhancement-fund-potential-funding-for-ecological-reserves/ . At
PDF version: ER Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary-June 16-2020 update to ER wardens Reserve on Saltspring Island, South Coast Region, April 2019 (Photo by Jenny Feick) Citation: Feick, Jenny L. 2020. Ecological Reserves Management Issues Summary. Victoria, B.C.: Friends of Ecological Reserves, unpublished report. Acknowledgements: This report and the data analysis that supports it
The members of the Board of Friends of Ecological reserves have recently done a survey of Ecological reserves, examining which have Management plans. We were concerned about whether management plans were live and active documents, and the issues that they portrayed. The following is taken from the BC Parks website at: http://bcparks.ca/planning/process/ Management Planning Process
List of ER Proposals (1985) A list of proposed reserves are contained in this 42 page PDF document. It includes an original list from 1968 and then subsequent additions to the list from 1978 to 1984. Here is a link to the document: 1985 ER Program in BC : ER Proposals It is a scan
This report was published in April 2020 Authors: Karen Price , PhD., Rachel F. Holt, PhD., R.P.Bio and Dave Daust R.P.F., M.Sc. See the full pdf of the report here: bcs-old-growth-forest-report-web Conclusions Productive old forest has almost vanished across BC. Low productivity inaccessible old forest remains in some forest types. Forest policy in BC does