Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher will participate in the Oceans Protection Forum online February 17-19 . The Annotated_Agenda_2 We have several concerns as a result of our experience as Intervenors in both of the Hearings of the National Energy Board and produced a number of reports as a result of the process. Our participation in
Location of current shipping lanes threaten South Vancouver Island – time for a change. By Mike Fenger, Victoria and Garry Fletcher, Metchosin. The 1891 Wreck of the S.S. San Pedro on Brotchie Ledge, a watercolour by Samuel McClure Starting in the mid-1800s, square-rigged ships and coal-fired steamers took on locally knowledgeable pilots at Brotchie Ledge,
PDF version: ER Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary update Feb 15 2021 Citation: Feick, Jenny L. Jan. 2021. Ecological Reserves Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary January 2021 Update. Victoria, B.C., Friends of Ecological Reserves, unpublished report. Acknowledgements: This report and the data analysis that supports it were prepared by Jenny Feick and Ian Hatter with
50th Anniversary Timeline – Ecological Reserve Act Following Canada’s commitment to implement the International Biological Program in the early 1960s, and scientific studies in the 1950s and 1960s by UBC Plant Ecologist Dr. Vladimir J. Krajina and other academics, Ray Williston, Minister of Forests, Lands and Water Resources supported the concept of protected reserves representing
We have made this report private and for research purposes only . Contact BC Parks for information to access if you are involved in research. Below are some of the images from the report
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This National Film Board film of 1976 profiles Bristol Foster the First Director of the Ecological Reserves Division in British Columbia. It was made shortly after the creation of the Triangle Island – Anne Vallee Ecological Reserve
Select Language▼ This article was published in the 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter (.pdf) 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter iNaturalist Biodiversity Surveys in BC Ecological Reserves By Brian Starzomski, Kate McKeown and John Reynolds. ………………………………………………………. iNaturalist is the most important development in biodiversity science in at least 100 years. This may sound like hyperbole – that period of time
Our thanks to Will MacKenzie who took these photos in The Vladimir Krajina (Port Chanal) Ecological Reserve in September 2006:
iNat 2020 Summary – Final
The AGM for 2019 was delayed from last spring by Covid19 so we held it today on zoom. 83 individuals logged into the Zoom session. The presentation by Brian Starzomski and Kate McKeown can be found at https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2021/01/29/the-bc-parks-inaturalist-project-fer-agm-presentation/ The following is the Business part of the meeting.
This is the presentation by Brian Starzomski and Kate McKeown of the University of Victoria on the BC Parks iNaturalist project to discuss new tools for surveying biodiversity in protected areas, and how we can all contribute to an explosion in data for understanding The business part of the 2019 AGM can be found here.
Board Present: Jenny Feick, Mike Fenger, Garry Fletcher Marilyn Lambert, Rick Page, Mary Rannie, Stephen Ruttan and Liz Williams. This year’s Annual General Meeting for the Friends of Ecological Reserves took place on the evening of May 24, 2019 at the University of Victoria. The business portion of our meeting began at 6:30 pm. Our
Agenda Friends of Ecological Reserves Society Annual General Meeting for 2019 Jan 29th 2021- 7:00PM Rick Page: chair, Garry Fletcher and Marilyn Lambert will support Zoom graphics Welcome and acknowledgement of FNs unceeded Territory throughout BC Establish quorum. Review and approve the agenda. Approve Minutes from the last AGM held May 24, 2019, with Dr.
IMPORTANT: SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT using this Link: by February 26, 2021 If they want to lob off 3.5 hectares, the least that can be done is adding another 3.5 hectares on another corner of the reserve and a considerably sized buffer zone, with fencing in the summer to prevent people from
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Ecological Reserve wardens Ecological reserve wardens are the eyes and ears of BC Parks in the province’s ecological reserves. For information on Ecological Reserves needing volunteer wardens and how to apply to be an Ecological Reserve warden see this site on the BC Parks website : https://bcparks.ca/get-involved/volunteer/#ecological-reserve-wardens ER wardens support BC Parks staff with a
GOOGLE TRANSLATION FROM CZECH: ( Approximately!!) Google sometimes translated Krajina as “landscape” See the complete PDF in its original form here: Vladimir Josef Krajina-1 Šumava, the last day of February 1948. Snowy mountain forest. He doesn’t know much about the Šumava forests, but how much have he experienced such, even riskier, moments? To illegally travel
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