The 2023/24 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2023/24 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER’s Response to the B.C. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health Framework Oil Spill Response is Questioned An Ecological Reserve as an Outdoor Classroom ER Proposal History and Current Status Flora of Two East
An Ecological Reserve as an Outdoor Classroom by Harold Sellers Vance Creek Ecological Reserve was visited this past September by a group of high school students from Vernon. Rob Buchanan is a teacher at Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon, where he leads the Awaken Inquiry Adventure Okanagan(AIAO) program. There are about 30 students in
Rob Buchanan Life Science Teacher Academy of Inquiry and Adventure Okanagan Vernon BC – aiao.ca sent us this report of a field trip with his students to Vance Creek Ecological reserve “AIAO ( Academy of Inquiry and Adventure Okanagan) students had a fulfilling day of learning and exploring at the Vance Creek Ecological Reserve. Students were relieved
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 12, 2012, the Vance Creek Ecological Reserve Warden Rick Fairbairn met with Garry Fletcher, Friends of Ecological Reserves Board member and Niran Lella to talk about the reserve, its problems and its special features. A walk through several areas and a drive to a heavily logged area above the reserve demonstrated to us
From THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2008 See the complete report in the following PDF file. vance creek survey1988 By M.E. Martin Continuing with our ongoing quest for Wardens’ Reports, Friends of Ecological Reserves was sent a very detailed and fascinating field report from Malcolm Martin, the Warden for Vance Creek ER,
In the 2007 Spring issue of the LOG, FER printed a letter expressing concern over a water license application by Silver Star Resort on Vance Creek. FER was made aware of an application of a water license by residents living on Vance Creek. FER was provided assurances by government staff that the concerns raised would
The 47 hectare Vance Creek Ecological Reserve is located 6 km north of Lumby. The reserve straddles the excluded Trinity Valley road and Defies Creek road, a narrow logging road off the Trinity Valley road. See the full PDF file from BC Parks: vance_crk_er_ps Primary Role Starting in 1939, the site was used as a
The following maps are adapted from the BC Parks Ecological reserve website:
This 371 page, 50 mb book may be downloaded from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HFD/library/documents/bib32374.pdf Thanks to Jody Krakowski ER warden for Baynes Island ER #69 for showing us the location of this important document. It provides a page and a map on each of the reserves created up to 1992. Include are the Ecological Reserves now lost from