News/Reports
THE LOG INDEX – 1988 to 2023
Board member Harold Sellers has compiled the following Index of publications by topic in the past editions of the Friends of Ecological Reserves Log …December 2023
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 — Aut./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