The Log Autumn Winter 2025-2026
See the pdf at:Autumn-winter-2025-26-Draft-March18-2026
The Log, 2025 Spring/Summer Newsletter
The 2025 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2025 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER 2025 AGM Thoughts on a Visit to Clayhurst Ecological Reserve Yellow Point Event Focussed on Fighting Invasive Plants Love of The Salish Sea Islands BC Parks Foundation Spearhead Largest Terrestrial Conservation
Index of Articles Published on Trial Islands ER in the Friends of Ecological Reserves Log-1988-2023
ECOLOGICAL RESERVES — NEWS/ARTICLES: #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 ========================================== ARTICLES: #132 Trial Island — August 1991 #132 Trial Island Field Trip — Spring 1998 #132
The Log, 2019 Spring/Summer Newsletter
The 2019 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available from this website. Just click below. Click here to open the 2019 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Friends of Ecological Reserves AGM Highlights from AGM Talk, “Orcas in Peril? Culture and Conservation of” Field Trip to Mount Maxwell ER The Extraordinary Life Of Pen Brown Migratory
The Log, 2017 Autumn/Winter Newsletter
The 2017 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Click here to open the 2017 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Minister of Environment & FER Meeting Tranquille ER ER Wardens’ Summaries: .Trial Islands ER .Baeria Rocks ER .Galiano Island ER .Checleset Bay ER .Bowser ER .San Juan Estuary ER .Comox Lake Bluffs ER .Woodley Range ER Pacific Reef and
Trial Island Ecological reserve from Southern Vancouver Island
In a recent walk up Gonzales Hill in Victoria, I was able to see most of the Ecological reserve at Trial Island.. ( The islands in the distance)
Trial Island Images
A Sweep of the Broom: Why Trial Island matters and what we can do about it Trial Island is one of the last refuges for many rare species of plants of southeast Vancouver Island that occur nowhere else in Canada. What makes Trial Island so special and what does this mean for so many rare
Jacques Sirois’ Biosphere Dreams
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Maleea Acker Reprinted with permission from the December 2015 issue of Focus Magazine By December, rain and the darkness of winter blankets the Capital Region. Berries hang like rubies from the darkening limbs of the Arbutus. Storms shawl the coast with salt spray. Songbirds have
The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves accepted as an Intervenor in the NEB hearings into the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline expansion.
Just issued today: The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves is included as one of the 400 intervenors accepted out of the 2118 who had applied to present to the National Energy Board as an Intervenor in Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the pipeline through Alberta and British Columbia. Our application submitted in early February
Review of Canada’s Ship-Source Oil spill Preparedness and Response Regime
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
Marine Ecological Reserves : Their Future in an Oil-Spill disaster. G. Fletcher
The threat of a disastrous oil spill that would devastate some marine ecological reserves in BC is looming ever larger. Proposals for two separate sets of Pipelines to the Coast of British Columbia and the ensuing transport of diluted tar-sands bitumen ( dilbit) by giant tankers are now being considered by our governments. The first
Restoration Efforts at Oak Bay Islands and Trial Island Ecological Reserves
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
Trial Island Restoration Project
This is an article published in the Garry Oak Recovery team newsletter of October 12 , 2011 https://goert.ca/trial-island/
Battling Broom on Trial Island ER
By Matt Fairbarns From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2010 Trial Island is an ecological gem and hosts a great number of rare species and ecosystems. The upland mead- ows, maintained free of native trees and shrubs by a combina- tion of summer drought and winter winds, support many endangered species including
Victoria’s Owl Clover Found on Trial Island
By Marilyn Lambert After a night of howling winds, the day we picked for this year’s Trial Island trip dawned bright, sunny and, most importantly, calm! Our usual trip leaders, Adolf and Oluna Ceska, weren’t available this day, so we were fortunate to have Trial Island Ecological Reserve warden, Matt Fairbarns share his views on
Video of Trial Island ER132
Open this video on a Trial Island Field Trip with Adolf Ceska.( It may take a few seconds to load)
Stewardship Account for Rosy Owl-clover: Orthocarpus bracteosus
Orthocarpus bracteosus has been known in the Victoria area since 1893. Historical records for Sidney, Oak Bay, Victoria and the Patricia Bay Highway are unmappable because the locality is too vague. Historical records of populations at Rollin’s Farm, Blenkinsop (Lost) Lake, Mount Douglas (Cedar Hill) and Beacon Hill are at least 90 years old and