A Provisional Explanation of the reproductive Failure of Tufted Puffins—–
Kees Vermeer , L. Cullen and Marion Porter of CWS document the 1976 nesting failure of tufted puffins on Triangle Island. See the PDF: tufted_puffin_reproductive_failure
East Copper Island species list 1978
Trudy Carson made these observations of Birds, plants and herbs and mosses on East Copper Island in May 1978.
Kelp Inventory
The Kelp inventory methods (KIM-i) developed by Foreman (1975) was used to estimate standing crop biomass of two canopy forming kelps along the northwest coast of Vancouver Island results indicated that 35,044 tonnes of pure Nereocystis luetkeana, 523 tonnes of pure Macrocystis integrifolia and 247 tonnes of these kelps in mixed stands were available at
Report on Bird Census of the Klashkish Valley-1978
M.S. Rodway did this extensive report with maps of the Klashkish Valley area. See the complete PDF: bird_census_of_klaskish_valley Harlequin Ducks Image by Ryan Murphy
Birds of Rankine and Cooper’s Island
An anonymous survey of the Birds of these two Islands.
Rankine Island, Wildlife Observations May 1978
Trudy Carson ( now Trudy Chatwin) made field notes in May 1978 on a few species of vegetation, noting the different ones compared to East Rankine Island. She also notes many Ancient Murrelets nesting .
Wildlife Observations April 27,1978
Bristol Foster and Trudy Chatwin provide a bird and mammal list. Also this PDF has a extensive list of Publications on Westwick lake. PDF: carson_&_foster_1978_wildlif_observations_westwick_er
Field’s Lease ER airphoto
Air photo taken in the late 1970’s ?
Proposed Ecological Reserves.-1970s
EcoCat:The Ecological Reports Catalogue. From https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/search.do This is a good set of links of 122 complete pdfs of early reports done for the International Biological Program. Ministry of Environment EcoCat:The Ecological Reports Catalogue 122 Report(s) Found International Biological Programme Application: Antler Lake_Gold River (Nov 1974) Author: J. Krajina, H. Roemer, D. Kossick Old Reference Number: 177
Seabird Census Data, East Copper Island, 1978
Wayne Campbell of the Provincial Museum made these observations of seabirds in 1978
Solander Island Seabird Census
This seabird Census was done by Wayne Campbell in 1975/1976
Simpson and Kelsal 1978 Preliminary Studies of Great Blue Heron Colonies. A report done for the Canadian Wildlife Service.
See PDF file: Simpson_&_Kelsal_1978_Preliminary_Studies_Great_Blue_Heron_Colonies_CWS
A report by Kelsal & Simpson 1978 Project Plan Great Blue Heron Colonies Lower Mainland CWS
Kelsal_&_Simpson_1978_Project_Plan_Great_Blue_Heron_Colonies_Lower_Mainland_CWS photo by Mike Fenger <
Neudorf et al. 1978 Water Fowl Census –Cecil Lake ER #50
PDF FILE: neudorf_et_al_1978_waterfowl_census_cecil_lake Ed.note: We were impressed with the volunteer efforts on this report. 5,400 hours of time were invested by fifteen volunteers, and a total waterfowl population of over 10,000 birds were documented. This last page, reproduced below provides a rather poignant synopsis, (maybe even reminiscent of Aldo Leopold’s thoughts. )
The Behaviour of VI Marmots: Douglas Heard, thesis 1977
Douglas Heard , University of Waterloo submitted this thesis for an MSc in 1977 PDF: Heard_1977_thesis_the_behaviour_of_vi_marmots
The Vegetation of Alpha and Griffin Islands
During the fall of 1977 the vegetation of alpha and Griffin Isalnds …was described and classified. the Braun-Blanquet releve method of phytoassociation was used in conjunction with the Ceska-Roemer computer program. —- Fall, 1977, Trudy Carson and Lynne Milnes: for Biology 418, Dr. Marcus Bell See the complete report in the PDF file:Vegetation(2)
Cassin’s Auklet Census, 1977
K. Summers and R. Billings did this hand-written document survey for for Dr.Kees Vermeer in 1977. Canadian Wildlife Service. cassins_auklet_census_1977
Application for Ecological Reserve at Doc English Bluffs
Alan Vyse and Anna Roberts submitted this application in the fall of 1977.