New Bird list for Race Rocks Ecological Reserve #97
Link to Bird List on the Race Rocks Website: https://racerocks.ca/bird-list-race-rocks-ecological-reserve/
Link to Bird List on the Race Rocks Website: https://racerocks.ca/bird-list-race-rocks-ecological-reserve/
The following article from the Victoria Time Colonist with a video of an interview with Dr. Martin Haulena of the Vancouver Aquarium appeared in the Times Colonist on October 29 2024 concerning the rescue of an entangled sea lion at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/gut-wrenching-sea-lion-with-mouth-sealed-by-netting-rescued-at-race-rocks-9727516
The 2024 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2024 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER AGM 300 Hectares of Old Growth Habitat to be protected New Talking Tree Nature Reserve on Galiano Island BC Parks Foundation Receives Large Grant for Lumley Road Project (Salt Spring Island)
Garry Fletcher Reporting: I got a ride with Greg from Peason College in the Second Nature vessel out to Race Rocks Ecological Reserve on June 14, 2024. This is probably the most relaxed time to go as ther are no sea lions and the gulls are not agressive yet. Noticeable was the change of vegetation.
Race Rocks Ecological Reserve #97 Wardens Report December 2023
In June 2023 Ian Adams presented for the Annual General Meeting of Friends of Ecological Reserves on the Key Biodiversity Areas program in Canada. This presentation is available here: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2023/06/07/key-biodiversity-areas-ian-adams-fer-agm-june-2023/ The website of KBA Canada is here: https://gis.natureserve.ca/portal/apps/dashboards/8a89d50ea0b04c7790e19791ab9ae6e8 Race Rocks Ecological Reserve is on the list of proposed KBAs in British Columbia along with several
April 2023 BCIT News–Abby Francis and Richard Davis In April, 2023 BCIT students Abby Francis and Richard Davis went to Race Rocks ER and interviewed Ecoguardian Derek Sterling and Ecological Reserve Warden Garry Fletcher about the Ecological Reserve at Race Rocks
Garry Fletcher, ER #97 Warden notes: On many of my trips to Race Rocks I make a point of photographing or documenting changes or affirming past records on the website http://racerocks.ca. These observations can be found at : https://racerocks.ca/category/er-warden-report/ Since Race RocksEcological Reserve is the only reserve with a resident Ecoguardian provided by nearby Lester
See Chapter 4 of this publication for a history of Ecological reserves and jurisdiction in British Columbia
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
Warden’s Report: On December 27 Martin Stewart provided transportation on the vessel Ecosphere for myself and two local birders, Matthew and Courtney Cameron to go to Race Rocks Ecological Reserve for the Sooke Region annual Bird count. The following link documents the results of that day. https://www.racerocks.ca/christmas-bird-count-at-race-rocks-2020/ Christmas Bird Count records since 1997 for the
The 2018 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available from this website. Just click below. Click here to open the 2018 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: President’s Report Spilling the Facts on Dilbit Elephant Seal Pups Born on Race Rocks To see a complete list of all “The Log” Newsletters, please visit the Newsletter Archive.
Often when we visit special ecological areas our observations are restricted to a limited view. In 2021 Along with Jamie Frith, I 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,
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Update on NEB-Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher In the 2014 Spring/Summer LOG, our editor Louise Beinhauer provided an excellent summary of the Information Requests that Friends of Ecological Reserves provided to Kinder Morgan (KM). This summary is
Each year since 1997, Lester Pearson College has facilitated the Christmas Bird Count at Race Rocks . This year we established a new record for the distribution of the Boreal Owl in British Columbia. Below is the account of the event from the Race Rocks website. “December 28, 2014– Val George and myself were picked
The vessel traffic lane in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is very narrow and it lies within 3 to 5 nautical miles of the boundary of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. The ecoguardians at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve have contributed photos of the local fauna, with marine vessels, including tankers in the background and
We huddled on a rainy Sunday morning, May 4, 2014, at Pearson College docks nestled in verdant and vibrant Metchosin, British Columbia. We donned personal flotation devices or floater coats and hopped aboard the motor vessel “Second Nature” skippered by Director of Operations for Race Rocks, Chris Blondeau for a short but choppy ride to
FER Board members Mike, Garry, liz and Louise have produced this report in response to the Kinder Morgan responses to our first Information request. Hearing Order OH-001-2014 Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (Trans Mountain) Application for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project Procedural Direction No. 3 – Process for hearing motions to compel full and adequate responses to
This table includes the various levels of concern for the endangered species at risk from oil spills in four of the Marine Ecological Reserves. See other posts on this website on the Oil Spill threat to our 17 Ecological reserves in the Southern Vancouver Island area. Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve SCIENTIFIC NAME COMMON NAME