The Friends of Ecological Reserves Board is submitting an application to Participate as an Intervenor in the National Energy Board Public Hearings for Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC Trans- Mountain Expansion Project. The project would expand the existing Trans Mountain pipeline system located between Edmonton AB, and Burnaby, BC, resulting in 987 km of new pipeline,
This report is available only by request from the Tanker Safety Secretariat in Ottawa. But it is also included here as a PDF : transport_canada_tanker_report_accessible_eng The figure which should be of most concern for Ecological reserves in BC is the following: In this recent government-commissioned risk-analysis report on tanker traffic safety in Canada, figure 3 shows
Warden’s Report by Charley and Mandy Vaughan Today, Sat Feb 2, 2013, Charley and I spent a couple of hours getting to know the reserve a little better. We focused on finding and hiking the trail to the NW corner of the reserve. The first point of note were the ATV tracks in the snow,
January 30 2014 – Baynes Island Ecological Reserve site visit report Jodie Krakowski, Warden A monitoring visit was organized to coincide with low water levels and the eagle season. We had a good turnout with dry overcast weather. Thanks so much to BC Parks: Kendra Wood, Senior Ranger and Katy Chambers, Area Supervisor, and Quest
The first photo attached is from May of 2013 and was taken by Senior Park Ranger, Kirk Densmore, when the Tranquille ER Wardens had Mike Ryan (FLNRO Plant Ecologist) come and walk around the ER with them and give a presentation. ER Wardens hard at work! May 12th 2013 Thanks to Amanda Roy-Wber for contributing
This report was submitted by Kats and June Kitamura, ER Reserve Wardens who share the duties with ER Warden Joan Best
Warden’s report by Garry Fletcher: In the early morning hours of January 14, a new elephant seal pup was born at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve. This was the 5th pup born to a female called Bertha since January 2009. Ecoguardian on the island Alex Fletcher reported that it was born in the night, some
For other links to wardens reports for Race Rocks, go to the racerocks.ca site at: http://www.racerocks.ca/wp/the-race-rocks-ecological-reserve-warden/ and http://www.racerocks.ca/wp/category/er-warden-report/
Ecological Reserves in British Columbia play an important role in the provision of Ecosystem Services. The references below relate to this topic: BACKGROUND REFERENCE: Ecosystem services ‘Ecosystem goods’, such as food, and ‘services’, such as waste assimilation, represent the benefits humans obtain from a properly functioning ecosystem and are usually referred together as ‘ecosystem services’.
Ecological Reserve warden’s Annual Report for 2013 Ecological Reserve name; #29, Tranquille. Report date; January 3, 2014 Warden’s name; Joan Best Number of volunteer hours logged; 37 Mileage; 360 Extent of Reserve visited; all the lower reaches and part-way up the cliff bases. Not yet the complete network of gullies. Entire fence checked. New species
This 3D rotation of Chilliwack River was made from Google Earth. The video starts with a view from Chilliwack lake south into the reserve and through to the US Border. The lake is visible when it comes 180 degrees and is looking to the North., which is the view in the still frame below. Click
On December 16, I accompanied a tour to Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. On board was Todd Golumbia who, while working for Environment Canada out of Sidney, Vancouver Island, was involved with research on the Black Oystercatchers of the Salish Sea. (See research papers below) Today there were 31 Oystercatchers in their favourite roosting area in
Mike Fenger and Jenny Feick, Ph.D. We are critical of conservation initiatives and the messaging to British Columbians of the adequacy and success of conservation measures within existing Parks and the areas between Parks. A new approach is desperately needed. We provide both evidence of current shortcomings and elements integral to a new conservation vision.
BC Protected Areas Research Forum: Conservation Connections, Thompson River University, Kamloops, BC December 5, 2013 by Garry Fletcher of Friends of Ecological Reserves. Presentation Outline: •When Ecological Reserves were first being set up from 1971 on, some universities and colleges in British Columbia went to great lengths to involve their faculty and students in baseline
This presentation was given in December 2013 by Alan Vyse of Thompson Rivers University at the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, BCPARF 2013 – December 3-5th at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops BC. It is presented here as it represents research done in part in Tranquille Ecological Reserve Abstract: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) ecosystems are
We are sorry to announce that Tomas Walter Gillespie, our secretary treasurer on the Friends of Ecological Reserves Board, passed away in hospital on November 26th at the age of 68. Tom lived with lung cancer over the past year, but continued to maintain his commitment to several environmental organizations in that difficult time. We
