Index of Articles from the LOG 1982-2023

Friends of Ecological Reserves compiled by Harold Sellers  2023

Note:  Link to the Articles below on the LOG  NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES PAGE 

THE LOG INDEX – 1988 to 2023

THE FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES
10th Anniversary of FER — October 1992
Science Advisory Committee — Autumn 2006
Strategic Plan for FER — Autumn 2006
Strategic Plan 2023-2025 — Spring-Summer 2023

ECOLOGICAL RESERVES — NEWS/ARTICLES
#1 Cleland Island and oil spill — July 1990
#7 Trout Creek: Laurie Rockwell — Autumn/Winter 2014
#15 Saturna Island Study of Fungi — Summer 2002
#16 Mt. Tuam, road — March 1992
#16 Mt. Tuam in Path of Development — October 1992
#16 Mt. Tuam: On Road to Development — Spring 1993
#16 Mt. Tuam: Saga Continues — Spring 1994
#16 Mt. Tuam, road — Winter 1994-95
#16 Mt. Tuam, road — Fall 1996
#24 Baeria Rocks and oil spill — July 1990
#24 Baeria Rocks ER, What Lies Below—Autumn/Winter 2016
#29 Tranquille prescribed burn — Spring 1999
#30 Vance Creek: threats from development — Spring 2007
#30 Vance Creek followup — Autumn 2007
#30 Vance Creek: water license concern — Spring 2008
#31 Lew Creek Biological Surveys — Summer 1995
#33 Field’s Lease — March 1989
#37 Mt. Maxwell: fences — Autumn 2005
#39 Sunbeam Creek — Spring 2001
#42 Mara Meadows water proposal — October 1992
#42 Mara Meadows Update — Spring 1993
#42 Mara Meadows: Water storage threat — Spring 1996
#42 Mara Meadows: adjacent woodlots — Fall 1996
#42 Mara Meadows: woodlot update — Spring 1997
#42 Mara Meadows update — Autumn 1998
#42 Mara Meadows: Letter by B. Westerman — Spring 2005
#46 Sikanni Chief River: Plants, Spiders, Fungi — A/W 2018
#52 Drizzle Lake — October 1989
#52 Drizzle Lake: Stickleback-Loon Interaction — Spring 96
#52 Drizzle Lake & Superpredator Humans — Aut./Win. 2015
#65 Chasm — Summer 2001
#69 Baynes Island — Spring 2002
#74 University of BC Endowment Lands — Spring 1997
#84 Alexa Lake, LiDAR technology — Autumn-Winter 2019
#86 Gladys Lake — Spring 2002
#86 Gladys Lake: To Act or not to Act — Winter 2003
#86 Gladys Lake: boundary revisions — Winter 2005
#86 Gladys Lake: boundary changes — Spring 2006
#88 Skwaha: Wildflowers — Autumn 2005
#94 Oak Bay Island: Invasives — Autumn/Winter 2014
#94 Oak Bay Islands, Griffin Island — S-S 2019
#97 Race Rocks: threatened loss of keeper — Fall 1996
#97 Race Rocks: marine protected area — Autumn 1998

#97 Race Rocks Marine Protected Area — Winter 2000
#97 Race Rocks news update — Winter 2001
#97 Race Rocks: ER to Marine Protected Area — Spring 2003
#97 Race Rocks: An Unusual Model — Winter 2004
#100 Haynes Lease fire recovery — Spring 1998
#100 Hayne’s Lease — March 1989
#100 Hayne’s Lease: Entomological Research — Autumn 2000
#100 Hayne’s Lease: Uvic Students Visit — Winter 2004
#109 Checleset Bay — October 1989
#109 Checleset Bay, sea otters and kelp — Aug.1991
#109 Checleset Bay: Subtotal Communities — Summer 2002
#109 Checleset Bay: Sea Otter Research — Spring 2005
#111 Robson Bight, area added — Spring 1988
#111 Robson Bight and orcas — October 1989
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem, fencing — Spring 1988
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem, fencing — Feb. 1990, Mar. 1992
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem: Syd Watts — Winter 2005
#118 Nimpkish River, Managing Erosion — Winter 1994-95
#118 Nimpkish River trees damaged — July 1990
#119 Tahsish River, pressures — Winter 1994-95
#119 Tahsish River: bear hunt charges — Fall 1996
#119 Tahsish River: bear hunt charges update — Spring 1997
#121 Brackman Island, ownership — Spring 1988
#126 Claud Elliott Creek, road threat — Spring 1999
#128 Galiano Island: salad harvesting — Spring 1996
#129 Klaskish River: Heritage Trail Project — Spring 2007
#130 Mahoney Lake — Autumn 2000
#130 Mahoney Lake: Uvic Students Visit — Winter 2004
#132 Trial Island proposal — March 1989
#132 Trial Island: Broom & Gorse Removal — Autumn 2000
#132 Trial Island: Victoria’s Owl-clover Found — Spring 2009
#132 Trial Island: Battling Broom — Spring/Summer 2010
#135 Bowser: illegal logging — Winter 2006
#136 Comox Bluffs: Out-of-Range Plant Species — Spring
2005
#142 Woodley Range: broom removal — Summer 2001
#143 Liumchen ER created — Spring 1999
#144 Yale Garry Oak ER created — Spring 1999
#152 Ospika Cones: Plants, Spiders, Fungi — Aut./Win. 2018
Ecological Reserves (a history by Bristol Foster) — Spring 1999
Ecological Reserve Proposals — Feb. 1990
ERs Now Managed by Parks Staff —August 1991
ERs of British Columbia — Winter 2006
ERs of Cariboo District — Summer 2001
ERs of Garibaldi/Sunshine Coast — Spring 2002
ERs of Haida Gwaii — Winter 2000
ERs of Kamloops/Thompson — Spring 2003
ERs of Kootenays — Winter 2001
ERs of Lower Mainland — Spring 2002
ERs of the Okanagan, Part 1 — Summer 2003
ERs of the Okanagan, Part 2 — Winter 2003

ERs of Northern BC, Part 1 — Spring 2006
ERs of Northern BC, Part 2 — Autumn 2006
ERs of Prince George District — Spring 2001
ERs of Skeena District — Summer 2002
ERs of Smithers Area — Winter 2000
ERs of Northern Vancouver Island, Part 1 — Spring 2004
ERs of Northern Vancouver Island, Part 2 — Autumn 2004
ERs of Northern Vancouver Island, Part 3 — Winter 2004
ERs of South Vancouver Island — Winter 2002
ERs of Southern Vancouver Island, Part 1 — Spring 2005
ERs of Southern Vancouver Island, Part 2 — Autumn 2005
ERs of Southern Vancouver Island, Part 3 — Winter 2005
Okanagan, A Special Visit (to ERs) — Autumn/Winter 2012

ECOLOGICAL RESERVES — VISITS & REPORTS
#4 Lasqueti Island — Spring/Summer 2016
#4 Lasqueti Island Revisited — Autumn/Winter 2022/23
#7 Trout Creek — Spring 1998
#7 Trout Creek — Autumn/Winter 2009
#15 Saturna Island — Autumn/Winter 2012
#16 Mt. Tuam — March 1989
#20 Columbia Lake — Autumn/Winter 2022/23
#29 Tranquille — Autumn/Winter 2017
#30 Vance Creek — Autumn 2008
#37 Mt. Maxwell — March 1989
#37 Mt. Maxwell — Spring-Summer 2019
#37 Mt. Maxwell — Spring 2009
#69 Baynes Island — March 1991
#76 Fraser River Islands — Autumn/Winter 2011
#76 Fraser River Islands — Spring/Summer 2022
#77 Campbell Brown — Autumn/Winter 2016
#81 Morice River — Spring/Summer 2023
#83 San Juan Ridge — Autumn/Winter 2010
#86 Gladys Lake — Summer 2001
#88 Skwaha Lake — July 1990
#89 Skagit River Cottonwoods — Spring 1988
#94 Oak Bay Islands — October 1992
#95 Anthony Island — Spring 1988
#97 Race Rocks — Spring 1988
#97 Race Rocks — October 1989
#97 Race Rocks — Spring 1997
#97 Race Rocks — Fall 1997
#97 Race Rocks field trip — Winter 2005
#97 Race Rocks field trip — Winter 2006
#97 Race Rocks field trip — Spring/Summer 2013
#97 Race Rocks: Pungent to Educational — Winter 2007
#97 Race Rocks Visited — Autumn 2008
#97 Race Rocks Re-Visited — Spring/Summer 2010
#97 Race Rocks Trip — Spring/Summer 2014
#98 Chilliwack River — October 1989
#108 Cougar Canyon — Summer 2003
#108 Cougar Canyon — Autumn/Winter 2021/22
#111 Robson Bight — Fall 1988
#111 Robson Bight — Autumn 1998
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem — October 1989

#112 Mt. Tzuhalem — July 1990
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem — August 1991
#112 Mt. Tzuhalem — Spring/Summer 2015
#113 Honeymoon Bay — Autumn 2005
#121 Brackman Island — Autumn 2008
#126 Claud Elliot Creek — Spring 2000
#128 Galiano Island — Autumn/Winter 2013
#130 Mahoney Lake Field Trip — Spring 2008
#132 Trial Island — August 1991
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Spring 1998
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Autumn 2000
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Summer 2001
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Autumn 2005
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Spring 2006
#132 Trial Island Field Trip — Spring 2007
#132 Trial Island Wildflower Outing — Spring 2008
#138 Klanawa River — Spring/Summer 2017
#141 San Juan River Estuary — Autumn-Winter 2020
#142 Woodley Range Visit — Spring/Summer 2011
#150 Rolla Canyon — Spring 2006
#154 Det San — Autumn/Winter 2016

ECOLOGICAL RESERVES — PROVINCIAL ACTIONS
ER Act, Regulations to be Revamped — Spring 1993
ER Additions: “Goal 2” results — Spring 1996
ER System Plan for Coastal Douglas-fir Zone — Fall 1993
Protected Areas Strategy: Gap Analysis — Spring 1996
Province Strengthens Protection — Spring/Summer 2023
South Coast Region ER System Plan — Mar. 1992
System Plan for ER Program — March 1989

ARTICLES
50th Anniversary of Ecological Reserve Act — Spring 2021
50th Anniversary of ERs — Autumn/Winter 2021/22
A Review of Milestones: 2020 — Autumn/Winter 2021/22
Alpine Grouse and Climate Change — Spring 2007
American Badger — Winter 2001
Ancient Rain Forests at Risk — March 1992
Ancient Rain Forests at Risk — Fall 1993
Arrow-leaved Balsamroot: Uses, Potential — Autumn 2000
BC Ecological Reserve System — Winter 2002
BC Nature Resolution: ER System — Autumn-Winter 2020
BC Parks Legacy Project — Autumn 1998
Big White Ski Resort Expansion — Spring/Summer 2010
Biodiversity Hot Spots — Autumn/Winter 2022/23
Biological Diversity: What’s It All About? — August 1991
Biological Diversity Importance — Autumn/Winter 2016
Bogs and the Economics of Carbon — Autumn 1999
Botany BC 2011: visit to Chilcotin — Autumn/Winter 2011
Bull Frog and Green Frog Sightings — Spring 1999
Burns Bog — Autumn 1998
Building Partnerships: FER and MOE — Autumn/Winter 2010
Butterflies on Vancouver Island — Summer 2003
Campaign to Save Backyard Biodiversity — Spring 1993

Cariboo-Chilcotin, Landowner contact in — Fall 1997
Caribou – a National Treasure — Spring 1998
Caribou, Wolves & Conflict in Society — Spring/Summer 2013
Case for New Protected Areas Vision — Autumn/Winter 2013
Chief Biologist for BC? — Autumn 2007
Clack Creek Forest — Autumn-Winter 2019
Clayoquot Sound: Let’s Have a Second Look — Fall 1993
Coastal Douglas-fir Ecosystem — Autumn/Winter 2015
Compelling Need for a Clean Ocean — Winter 2001
Conservation & Stewardship Issues — Spring/Summer 2020
Conservation Covenants — Fall 1997
Cool Plants and Their Fungal Friends — Spring/Summer 2016
Cummins Valley: rainforest ecosystem — Fall 1996
Cummins Valley: “only” valley left to log — Spring 1997
Cummins Valley saved — Fall 1997
Denman Island: To Save a Special Forest — Fall 1997
Eagle Heights (Shawnigan Lake) Visit — Spring/Summer 2012
Ecological Forecasting, Call for — Summer 2001
Ecological Research Legacy Project — Spring/Summer 2014
Ecological Monitoring Program (BC Parks) — Spr./Sum. 2013
Ecological Reserves and Aboriginal Rights — Summer 2002
Ecological Reserves and Buffer Zones — Winter 2007
Ecological Reserves: Forgotten Gems? — Spring/Sum. 2020
Ecological Restoration on Island ERs — Autumn/Winter 2012
Elders Council Workshop: FER attended — Winter 2007
Elephant Seal Born at Race Rocks — Winter 2008
Empire Valley Ranch — Spring 1997
Empire Valley: Minister responds — Fall 1997
ER Volunteer Warden Program — Autumn 1999
ERs: a biased history in 10 minutes — Summer 2003
ERs in B.C.: Our History — Autumn 1998
FER Board Meets with Minister — Autumn/Winter 2017
Field Trips to ERs: Discussion — Winter 94-95 & Summer 1995
Forage Fish Matter — Winter 2008
Fort Graham Portage Visit — Autumn 2007
Fort Graham Portage Field Report — Spring 2008
Garry Oak, Using Fire to Save — Spring 2001
Garry Oak Ecosystems, baseline research — Winter 2004
Genetic Diversity within ERs — Spring 2007
Grasslands: Update from Cariboo-Chilcotin — Autumn 1998
Grasslands: Do Fence Me In — Spring 1996
Grasslands: East Kootenay — Fall 1997
Grasslands, Getting to Know Our — Spring 1996
Grasslands, protection — Fall 1996
Great BC Beach Clean-Up -99 — Autumn 1999
GSX Gas Pipeline — Spring 2002
GSX Pipeline and ER #67 — Winter 2002
Habitat Acquisition Trust Forum — Autumn/Winter 2011
Habitat Acquisition Trust Forum — Autumn/Winter 2012
Highlands District (near Victoria) covenants — Fall 1996
Hornby Island’s Threatened Garry Oak Grove — Spring 1993
Hornby Island Oaks Update — Fall 1993
Hornby Island Oaks Update — Summer 1995
Hotspring Invertebrates of BC — Summer 2001
iNaturalist Biodiversity Surveys — Autumn-Winter 2020
iNaturalist Project — Spring/Summer 2020

iNaturalist Challenge in ERs — Autumn/Winter 2021/22
Inland Rainforests — Fall 1996 (also see Cummins Valley)
Intact Forest Ecosystems — Autumn/Winter 2022/23
Invasive Species and ERS — Spring/Summer 2017
Jack Creek ER Proposal — October 1992
Jack Creek Update — Spring 1993
Jedediah Island, The Push to Buy — Winter 1994-95
Jedediah Island Visit — Summer 1995
Jeremy Wilson, Logs and Talk by — Autumn 1998
Khutzeymateen, by Vicky Husband — Fall 1988
Khutzeymateen Study — March 1989
Khutzeymateen update — October 1989
Khutzeymateen update — July 1990
Khutzeymateen Valley Goes to Victoria — March 1992
Khutzeymateen Valley to be Protected — October 1992
Khutzeymateen: Hammond Report — Spring 1993
Khutzeymateen: Protection Imminent — Spring 1993
Khutzeymateen: Grizzly Bear Sanctuary — Winter 1994-95
Killer Whale Diving Behaviour — Fall 1993
Killer Whales, Southern Resident — Spring/Summer 2015
Kinder Morgan Pipeline: Intervenor — Spring/Summer 2014
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Update — Autumn/Winter 2014
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Update — Spring/Summer 2015
Kinder Morgan Pipeline article — Autumn/Winter 2015
Kinder Morgan Pipeline article — Autumn/Winter 2016
Kinder Morgan article — Autumn/Winter 2018
Kitlope Valley — Nov. 1990
Kitlope Conservation Training — October 1992
Kitlope Valley Research 1993 — Fall 1993
Kwakiutl Sword Fern — Spring 2007
Lower Tahsish – Kwois, Logging — March 1992
Macro-Fungi Inventory & Study — Autumn 1999
Macro-Fungi Inventory & Study Update — Summer 2001
Marbled Murrelet — July 1990 & Nov. 1990
Marbled Murrelet News — Spring 1996
Marbled Murrelet News — Fall 1996
Marbled Murrelet Surveys — Spring 1993
Marbled Murrelets Census and Nesting — Fall 1993
Marbled Murrelet Research Makes Gains — Winter 1994-95
Marine Mammal Monitoring, On Patrol — Autumn 2004
Marmot, Celebrate the — Spring 1998
Marmot Colony at Haley Lake — October 1992
Marmot Paradox — Winter 1994-95
Marmot Recover Team update — Autumn 1998
Megan River Explorations — August 1991, March 1992
Megan River Watershed — October 1992
Megan Meanderings — Fall 1993
Mount Tuam/Mount Bruce Protected Proposal — Spring 96
MSMA, Monosodium methanearsonate — Winter 2008
Murrelets in the Walbran — March 1992
Murrelet Research at UVic in 1991 — March 1992
Nitrogen, Salmon & Bears in Coastal Forests — Spring 2000
Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings — Spring/Summer 2013
Northern Rockies, Protected area progress — Fall 1997
Oak Groves on Hornby Island — July 1990
Oil Spill on the West Coast — March 1989

Okanagan Wardens — Autumn 2000
Old Growth Deferrals — August 1991
Old Growth Strategic Review Report — Autumn-Winter 2020
Old Growth Strategy Project — Nov. 1990
Old Growth Strategy Report — March 1991
Old Growth Strategic Review submission — Spr./Sum. 2020
Orcas in Peril? — Spring-Summer 2019
Osoyoos-Arid Biotic Zone — March 1989
Park Plan 90 & Wilderness Areas Plan — March 1991
Phragmites…are No More? — Spring/Summer 2022
Pink Mountain, The Case for an ER — Spring/Summer 2011
Pink Mountain, Case for New ER — Spring/Summer 2016
Pink Mountain, Extreme Biodiversity — Spring/Summer 2022
Placements of FER — Spring 2021
Process for Selling Crown Land — Autumn 2004
Prospects for Protection under NDP — March 1992
Protected Areas, Climate Change… — Spring/Summer 2010
Race Rocks ER: Marine Protected Area — But./Win. 2009
Race Rocks: Elephant Seals Born — Spring/Summer 2018
Ragged Mountain Visit — Summer 1995
Rare Fern Research on Texada Island — Autumn 1999
Rattlesnakes: #77 Campbell-Brown ER — Spring 1998
Reconciliation and ERs — Spring/Summer 2020
Renewed Push to Revitalize ER System — Aut.-Win. 2019
Research and Education: ERs Fulfilling Mandate? — A/W 2013
Research in Ecological Reserves — Autumn/Winter 2009
Salmon Forest Research Program — Winter 2008
Salmon-derived Nutrients: Forest Food Webs — Winter 2004
Salmon-derived Nutrients: Riparian Food Webs — Spring
2004
Sandhill Cranes: North & Central Coasts — Spring 2009
Scott Islands: Marine Wildlife Area — Autumn/Winter 2010
Sea-Bird Perspective on Old Forests — August 1991
Sea Otter, Community Ecology — Summer 1995
Sea Otter, Sighting & Counting — March 1992
Sea Otter Research at #109 Checleset Bay — Feb. 1990
Sea Otter Research — Spring 1996
Sea Otter Research — Fall 1997
Sea Otter Research — Autumn 1998
Sea Otter Research — Spring 2000
Sea Otter Research — Winter 2006
Sea Otter Research Continued Support — Autumn 2007
Sea Otter Research at Checleset Bay ER — Autumn 2008
Shrinking Ecological Reserves System — Autumn/Winter 2014
Silverdaisy Valley — Autumn-Winter 2019
Sooke Hills — Spring 1997
South Okanagan, Areas for Rare Species in — Autumn 1999
South Vancouver Is. Wardens Meet — Autumn 2000
South Winchelsea Island — Fall 1997
South Winchelsea Island field trip report — Spring 1998
Special Conservation Challenges — Spring/Summer 2011
Species at Risk in BC — Autumn 1998
Spring Island Field Camp — July 1990
Spruce Lake wilderness park imperilled — Fall 1997
State of BC’s Ecological Reserves, 2005 Report — Winter 2006
Stickleback Fish Research — Nov. 1990

Sustainable Forestry Benchmarks — Autumn 2007
Timber Supply, Special Committee — Autumn/Winter 2012
Transient Killer Whale Predation — August 1991
Trial Island Lighthouse to Lose Keeper — Aut./Win. 2009
UEL Ecological Reserve: Rare trout — Fall 1997
Undeveloped Watersheds on V.I. — March 1991
University Researchers in ERs — Autumn/Winter 2012
Vancouver Island Wardens’ Summaries — Aut./Win. 2017
Victoria Special Ecosystems Inventory Project — Fall 1993
Victoria Special Ecosystem Inventory Report — Spring 1994
Victoria’s Migratory Bird Sanctuary — Spring-Summer 2019
Victoria Water District: Sooke Hills — Spring 1997
Victoria’s Water Supply Area, Eco. Riches — Winter 94-95
Victoria’s Water Supply Area, update — Fall 1996
Walbran Valley Visit — October 1992
Wardens or Stewards: BC’s New Protected Areas — Fall 1996
Wardens Meeting, Thompson Area — Autumn 2007
Wardens Meeting, Vancouver Island — Spring/Summer 2011
Wardens Meeting, Vancouver Island — Spring/Summer 2016
Wardens Regional Meetings Reports — Winter 2006
Wardens Training, Okanagan — Autumn 2007
Western Spring Beauty, Ethnobotany of — Spring 2007
Whales Research in Southern V.I. ERs — October 1989
Wildlife and Programs in Crisis — Spring 1999
EDITORIALS
Ecoreserves Again — Winter 2003
How well protected are our protected areas? — Fall 1997
Overwhelming Support Columbia Wetlands — Winter 2001
Walk Softly (protection thru ERs) — Spring 1998
What are Protected Areas Worth? — Summer 2001
Whither Reserves – or Wither Reserves? — Summer 2002

PROFILES
Trev Anderson — Autumn-Winter 2020
Pam Birley — Autumn/Winter 2010
Bert (VC) Brink — Winter 2007
Rex Pendril “Pen” Brown — Spring-Summer 2019
Mary Campbell-Brown — Spring 1996
Alfred Gaensbauer — Spring/Summer 2023
Tom Gillespie — Autumn/Winter 2013
Louise Goulet — Spring/Summer 2012
Bristol Foster interview — Autumn-Winter 2019
Dr. Vladimir J. Krajina, In Memoriam — Fall 1993
Dr. Vladimir Krajina — Spring 2021
Ian McTaggart-Cowan: UVIC Professorship — Spring 2008
John Riley — Spring 2002
Laurie Rockwell — Spring/Summer 2017
Hans Roemer — Autumn/Winter 2011
Derek Thompson — Autumn/Winter 2012
Syd Watts — Spring/Summer 2013