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 Victoria, B.C.: Friends of Ecological Reserves, unpublished report.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
BC Parks just posted the invitation to put in an application for conservation work in ecological reserves or other protected areas via the Park Enhancement Fund. This regional PEF funding is intended to support community engagement projects and partnerships across the province. $240,000 is available in total, with $40,000 for each of our six regions
The following set of emails was sent to me at the beginning of June 2020. It seems that British Columbia is still determined to log old growth forests even though community interests for conservation would suggest that it may be time for governments to consider heeding a different set of values. From: Elphinstone Logging Focus <loggingfocus@gmail.com>
This resolution has been extracted from the BC Nature Annual Report 2019:p45 Copy of Resolution regarding Ecological Reserves – Annual Report Page 45 Resolution 2020 Resolution 2020-001 -Ecological Reserves System of British Columbia Submitted by Victoria Natural History Society (VNHS) WHEREAS in 1971, the British Columbia Legislature gave unanimous approval to the Ecological Reserve Act,