Location of current shipping lanes threaten South Vancouver Island – time for a change. By Mike Fenger, Victoria and Garry Fletcher, Metchosin. The 1891 Wreck of the S.S. San Pedro on Brotchie Ledge, a watercolour by Samuel McClure Starting in the mid-1800s, square-rigged ships and coal-fired steamers took on locally knowledgeable pilots at Brotchie Ledge,
PDF version: ER Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary update Feb 15 2021 Citation: Feick, Jenny L. Jan. 2021. Ecological Reserves Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary January 2021 Update. Victoria, B.C., Friends of Ecological Reserves, unpublished report. Acknowledgements: This report and the data analysis that supports it were prepared by Jenny Feick and Ian Hatter with
50th Anniversary Timeline – Ecological Reserve Act Following Canada’s commitment to implement the International Biological Program in the early 1960s, and scientific studies in the 1950s and 1960s by UBC Plant Ecologist Dr. Vladimir J. Krajina and other academics, Ray Williston, Minister of Forests, Lands and Water Resources supported the concept of protected reserves representing
We have made this report private and for research purposes only . Contact BC Parks for information to access if you are involved in research. Below are some of the images from the report
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This National Film Board film of 1976 profiles Bristol Foster the First Director of the Ecological Reserves Division in British Columbia. It was made shortly after the creation of the Triangle Island – Anne Vallee Ecological Reserve
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