The 2024-25 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2024-25 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER President’s Page Hia’s/Triangle Island: B.C.’s Largest Seabird Colony Increased Numbers of Orcas and Salmon near Alert Bay Trespass in the Clayhurst Ecological Reserve Bowser Ecological Reserve Warden’s Report FER Joins BC
On Dec 7 and 8, 2022 Steven Bercek of BC Parks hosted meetings online with the Kootenay and the Okanagan area’s volunteer wardens. There were also a good number of BC Parks staff in attendance at each meeting. We hope that other areas in the BC parks system may in the future hold similar wardens
Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve, ER #108 Warden’s Report October 19, 2021 Harold Sellers, Warden Cougar Canyon ER, near Vernon, preserves representative Interior Douglas fir ecosystems, together with a chain of small lakes and associated wetlands. The ER is bounded for the most part by Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park. The exception is the south west end
Warden Report Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve, ER #108 by Harold Sellers ER Warden: Denis Seymour (deceased), Roseanne Van Ee (long term disability), Val Buchanan (moved away), Harold Sellers Volunteer hours logged in 2019 : 5 hrs Visits : 1 Mileage : 26 km First Visit of the Year: 11 July 2019 On this date I joined three BC Parks rangers and
Purpose Statement March /05 COUGAR CANYON ECOLOGICAL RESERVE Purpose Statement For the full PDF see cougar_canyon_purposestatement The 553 hectare Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve is located on the east side of Kalamalka Lake, about 13 km south of Vernon. The ecological reserve is part of a block of protected areas which includes Ka lamalka Lake Provincial
A trip through some of the Ecological Reserves of the Okanagan in the fall of 2012. It is not often that members of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves get the opportunity to meet with reserve wardens, hear their concerns, and get to see the Ecological Reserves looked after by those wardens. In the
On October 11, 2010, Ecological Reserve wardens Roseanne Van Ee and Dennis Seymour took Garry Fletcher, Friends of Ecological Reserves Board member and Niran Lella out to Kalamalka lake Provincial Park to view the Cougar Canyon Reserve from the cliffs at the east end. From the area used as a popular local rock-climbing cliff, we
On October 11, 2010, Ecological Reserve wardens Roseanne Van Ee and Dennis Seymour took Garry Fletcher, Friends of Ecological Reserves Board member and Niran Lella out to Kalamalka lake Provincial Park to view the Cougar Canyon Reserve from the cliffs on the East end. From the area used as a popular local rock-climbing cliff, we
Ecological Reserve Warden Roseanne Van Ee and her husband Rick visited Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve on March 6, 2009. They took these pictures while going through the reserve : Roseanne noted in her report to the BC Parks Area Supervisor: “Attached are photos from our Cougar Canyon expedition. We entered through the gravel pit end
Rick Van Ee has made this map of the trip through Cougar Canyon that he and Roseanne did in March 2009.
The report is the Invasive Plant Program Annual Report for the Okanagan Region and includes inventories of invasive plants, activities undertaken, and recommendations for 2008. Designing and implementing an effective invasive plant program within the Okanagan Region is critical in fulfilling this mission and to ensure the long-term protection of our natural spaces. Invasive plant
These maps are from the 2006 report by Wade Alcock on invasive species of the Okanagan. See https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/?p=17245 for the complete report.
This map was derived from the BC Parks website
Prepared by Judy Millar and Crystal Klym–16 pages 2.0 invasive plant program background ESD, Okanogan region manages 330,791 ha of protected lands. Diverse ecosystems thrive within these lands and include sensitive grasslands, fertile riparian areas, fragile alpine meadows and productive forests these ecosystems, which provide critical habitat for many of British Columbia’s rare and
The Okanagan Region governs more than 330,000 hectares of park, protected areas, ecological reserves and The Nature Trust of BC leaseback lands. The diversity of ecosystems that occur within these lands, support many of British Columbia’s identified species at risk. However, the introduction of various invasive plant species has severely threatened the integrity of these
Ministry of Environment Environmental Stewardship Division See Full PDF: OKRegionIPStrategy2005_1291741150797_6fdca22d85d494f71daadf279edd0750660b65b7b1fa7bb13a205fcf6f0847eb Three introduced species of the Okanagan Link to other information and data: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/viewReport.do?reportId=20401.
The report includes inventories of invasive plants, activities undertaken, and recommendations for 2005. Link to PDF report: Invasive Plant Program Annual Report 2004 Okanagan Region. Link to other information, data, and maps: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/viewReport.do?reportId=20390. Summary Invasive plant program management inventories and treatments were completed on Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection (MWLAP), Environmental Stewardship Division,
Summary Weed management projects were completed on Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection (MWLAP), Okanagan Region, provincial parks, protected areas and ecological reserves as well as Nature Trust of British Columbia (BC) lease-back lands. These projects included weed inventory and control (cultural, biological and chemical). All weed management projects were completed under Weed Management
