Often when we visit special ecological areas our observations are restricted to a limited view. In this video, we visited six diverse Ecological Reserves with the goal of revealing some of their special features from a distant viewpoint as well as a close up one. Under a special permit from BC Parks, Jamie Frith used
Alpha Island is one of the islands that make up the Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve. ER warden Doug Biffard took these images in 2014 . He has expressed concern about the accelerated erosion on the shorelines of the island.
On Oct 18th, 2012, Matt Fairbarns made this presentation to the Restoration of Natural Systems Speaker series on the restoration efforts at Oak Bay Islands and Trial Island Ecological Reserves: It includes a section on invasive species as well as native species. Be sure to see the PDF file to get information on the
Seabird nest and roost sites are important to maintenance of BC’s biodiversity and many of the important nest colonies are protected in Ecological Reserves and Parks. Disturbance to wildlife is a major issue that park and wildlife managers routinely face, yet information to assess threat is often not available, —-Need to set guidelines based on
The Ecological reserve warden Marilyn Lambert has supplied these photos.
A ( very rough) report, but one which includes photos which may be useful as baseline information. See Complete PDF:report_on_great_chain_islands_including_oak_bay_islands