Select Language▼ This article was published in the 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter (.pdf) 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter iNaturalist Biodiversity Surveys in BC Ecological Reserves By Brian Starzomski, Kate McKeown and John Reynolds. ………………………………………………………. iNaturalist is the most important development in biodiversity science in at least 100 years. This may sound like hyperbole – that period of time
The 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2020-21 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Happy 50th Anniversary to B.C.’s Ecological Reserves!! iNaturalist Surveys in B.C.’s Ecological Reserves Trev Anderson, Race Rocks ER Advocate Turns 100 FER Weighs in on Old Growth Review Strategic Report A Trip
Our thanks to Will MacKenzie who took these photos in The Vladimir Krajina (Port Chanal) Ecological Reserve in September 2006:
iNat 2020 Summary – Final
This is the presentation by Brian Starzomski and Kate McKeown of the University of Victoria on the BC Parks iNaturalist project to discuss new tools for surveying biodiversity in protected areas, and how we can all contribute to an explosion in data for understanding The business part of the 2019 AGM can be found here.
IMPORTANT: SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT using this Link: by February 26, 2021 If they want to lob off 3.5 hectares, the least that can be done is adding another 3.5 hectares on another corner of the reserve and a considerably sized buffer zone, with fencing in the summer to prevent people from
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Our thanks to the Ross Muirhead of (ELF) Elphinstone Logging Focus for sending us this link to a new film that takes the viewer into the Dakota Bear Sanctuary, Squamish Nation, Sunshine Coast, B.C.The Dakota Bear Sanctuary. This link will provide all the posts on this website about the Dakota Bowl Ecological Reserve proposal. https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/er/156/
This picture on the left is significant as it was taken by Hans Roemer when Dr. Krajina first visited what later became the Nimpkish Island Ecological Reserve. Hans says ” I took this photograph in June 1974, it shows Dr. Krajina, flanked by two foresters, making his way towards the largest Douglas-fir that then existed
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
See the interactive pdf version of this map: ER #76 Map – boundary 2011 with notes from Oct 24 2020 visit ER #76, Fraser River – October 24, 2020 by Bill & Bev Ramey Sunshine, 2o to 5o C; strong winds from northeast (Arctic outflow) at 35 km/h and gusts even stronger, so this added
Resolution 2020-001 -Ecological Reserves System of British Columbia Submitted by Victoria Natural History Society (VNHS) Resolution 2020-001 – Ecological Reserves System of British Columbia Submitted by Victoria Natural History Society (VNHS) Updated Version Prepared by Jenny Feick for the Friends of Ecological Reserves WHEREAS in 1971, the British Columbia Legislature gave unanimous approval to the
Photos provided by Dr. Bruce Archibald. 1. A rare fossil of a 50 million-year-old wasp of the family Trigonalidae. This small group of parasitoids have complex life histories consuming sequential hosts. First, a caterpillar eats their tiny eggs on leaves. They then enter, live within, and feed upon other parasitoids that are themselves inside and
FROM: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2016 By Fred Beinhauer On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, FER Board members and friends took a field trip to the Lasqueti Island Ecological Reserve # 4. Lasqueti Island is a small island located North of Parksville in the Strait of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and the
Here are some references relevant to the three proposed Eocene Fossil sites in the BC Interior which in the past have been proposed as ecological reserves; 1. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e04-100 Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape1 David R. Greenwood, S. Bruce Archibald, Rolf
From: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/siwe/details.do?projectId=5570&pagerOffset=0 2011-ongoing – Grassland Plants – Long Term Monitoring – BC Parks – Multiple Regions ID: 5570 Coordinator:Tory Stevens Funding Agency: MOE: BC Parks Survey Name.. 2017 – Grassland – Long Term Monitoring – Trout Creek Ecological Reserve Survey Intensity..Inventory Method.. Taxa (Species Code / Scientific Name / English Name) * = Primary Focus
https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/three-fire-departments-called-to-wildfire-at-ecological-reserve-north-of-ladysmith/ North Oyster Fire Department and other crews are at the scene of a wildfire in the Woodley Range Ecological Reserve north of Ladysmith. (Cole Schisler/Ladysmith Chronicle) Multiple fire crews called to wildfire at ecological reserve north of Ladysmith The fire is now under control NANAIMO NEWS STAFF Sep. 8, 2020 3:50 Crews from multiple
By Mary Rannie: Members of the FER board who drove the 2 hour west coast road from Victoria to Port Renfrew on on August 28th, enjoyed a day greatly anticipated. Garry and Helen Fletcher, Marilyn Lambert andMary Rannie had never visited the nearby San Juan River Estuary, ER #141. From May to October its newly