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
ER warden Doug Biffard supplied this map of the area in the ten mile point reserve where plots have been laid out for an Ecological Monitoring program.
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
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
The following image has been made from Google Earth The red dots show the approximate boundary of the inter and subtidal reserve.
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
The BC Parks Map of the Ten mile Point ER #66:
To the east of Oak bay/ Victoria,there are several Ecological reserves. This map shows their locations in relation to each other. It is adapted from the BC Parks website.
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To provide an undisturbed, intertidal and subtidal study area accessible by road in the Greater Victoria Area Physical: The reserve includes about 450 m of intertidal shoreline along Cadboro Point, and extends seaward for 300-400 m. About 30% of its area is above mean low water, 70% below. Coastal features include a sheltered
Ecological reserves are areas selected to preserve representative and special natural ecosystems, plant and animal species, features and phenomena. The key goal of ecological reserves is to contribute to the maintenance of biological diversity and the protection of genetic materials. All consumptive resource uses and the use of motorized vehicles are prohibited. Research and educational
From Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Closures in British Columbia, by Glen S. Jamieson and Joanne Lessard Canadian Special Publications of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 131, 2000
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
Pam Stacey and Robin Baird did this research off Trial Island, Oak Bay and Chain Islands and ten Mile Point See the PDF: Stacey and Baird Whale_sea reactions
This is a fairly comprehensive list of invertebtrates with an addendum of Fish and invertebrates observed by Stewart in 1977. See the PDF: invertsbisgrove
This report deals with the marine algae of the reserve. See the complete PDF: Ten Mile Point ER 1977 marine flora survey
Information submitted with the IBP report 1985 See the PDF: marine_flora
K. Coates and Dr. D. Ellis completed a preliminary littoral habitat survey in the area of ten mile Point in Victoria, April 19,1976; See the second part of this PDF: ellis and coates 1976 13 estuary investigations marine aspects