Pink Mountain – A Strong Case for a New Ecological Reserve by Mary Rannie, (Board member , Friends of Ecological Reserves) FROM: THE LOG– FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2016 As one of the FER board members present at the Victoria Natural History Society’s Botany Night held at Swan Lake Nature Centre on February
Review of Block DK044 Archaeological Impact Assessment Interim Report (2012-0218) See the full pdf report 57 pages: : Millennia-Report-DK044-CMT-Study-ReviewDec7-final Prepared for: Elphinstone Logging Focus December 2015 Submitted to: The Squamish First Nation and The Archaeology Branch and Baseline Archaeological Services Ltd By: Phoebe Ramsay, BA Morley Eldridge, MA, RPCA Management Summary Previous conflicting reports on
BLACK BEAR DEN FIELD SURVEYS (JUNE 11, 2015) ON DAKOTA RIDGE RE PROPOSED BC TIMBER SALES (BCTS) CUTBLOCKS A87126 – DK042 & DK044 & COMMENTS ON IMPACTS, INCLUDING ON OTHER CAVITY-USING VERTEBRATES RESULTS OF GIS MAP MODEL OF HIGH VALUE BLACK BEAR DEN HABITATS FOR CHAPMAN-HOWE LANDSCAPE UNITS (LUs), BC SUNSHINE COAST See the 14
https://mushroomobserver.org/location/show_location/8987 Created: 2013-12-23 13:06:00 PST (-0800) by Oluna & Adolf Ceska (aceska@telus.net) Last modified: 2015-07-17 22:54:02 PDT (-0700) by Oluna & Adolf Ceska (aceska@telus.net) See the above link for an active google map
High-res Elphinstone Master Rep final 5 June 2015 PART 1 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS This preliminary report examines the conservation values of the Elphinstone area located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and known locally as the “Elphinstone park expansion proposal,” the “Mount Elphinstone park proposal,” “Elphinstone 1500” (referring to the assumed 1500 hectare size),
A pdf copy of the letter is here: ADM-Lori Halls Letter Victoria BC V8S 4G9 From Mike Fenger September 30th, 2014 Lori Halls, Assistant Deputy Minister Lori.D.Halls@gov.bc.ca BC Parks and Conservation Officer Service Division 5th floor – 2975 Jutland Road, Victoria PO Box 9398 Stn Prov Govt. Victoria, BC V8W 9M9 Dear Lori Halls, I
Site Visit: Rubus nivalis locations, Mount Elphinstone Aug. 11, 2014. Rubus nivalis site visit Aug. 2014 (5) Copy final Margaret Symon, R.P.F. P.C.P. Strathcona Forestry Consulting Introduction. At the invitation from Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) Society*, I joined Mr. Ross Muirhead on August 11 to examine Rubus nivalis (Snow Bramble) at a proposed BCTS cutblock
See the PDF of this report here:Dakota-Bowl-tree-coring-report-July-2014-Snowline-Research Memo to: Elphinstone Logging Focus Memo from: Bob Brett, Snowline Ecological Research Date: July 31, 2014 Subject: Tree ages, Dakota Bowl proposed cutblock DK44 This memo describes the results from tree coring on DK044 cutblock proposed by BC Timber Sales (BCTS). Site: BCTS’s proposed cutblock DK044 is in
In August we reported on a trip to a special forest at Robert’s Creek where a local group , Elphinstone Logging Focus, was trying to prevent logging and promote a protected area . Today as a followup, we received this press release : ELF Press Release RC Headwaters Ancient Forest Protected Press Release October 30, 2013
Wrinkly Face Cliff Protected Area, Winfield A PRELIMINARY STUDY ( Click on images for enlarged view) When this project was first conceived it was planned as a multi-year study commencing with inventories of the biological components of the protected area in as comprehensive a manner as possible, followed by a series of research initiatives to
On July 11 2013, Ross Muirhead, Bill Legg and Hans Penner of Elphinstone Logging Focus, an environmental group based in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, took Helen and I up to up to a small patch of forest presently included in a BC Timber Sales Block (BCTS) Cutblock DK045. They had identified this area with concern for
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Elphinstone Logging Focus <loggingfocus@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Norm, Last week, 5 volunteers visited DK045 – the upper parcel where I previously noted a high number of Pacific Yews. The plan was to conduct a survey of as many Yews as we could find. The community knows this forest as
In the late 1980’s an Ecological Reserve Proposal was submitted for the Sooke Hills. The proposal was never accepted by the government. Dr. Hans Roemer did do a plant survey of the proposed area which is shown below.
On May 20, 2012, Members of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves went on a field trip with Adolf and Oluna Ceska to the Eagle Ridge area by Koksilah Provincial Park, west of Shawnigan Lake This area has been proposed as an ecological reserve in past years but has been held up by timber
From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2011 This is a one of a series of interviews with pioneers who built the Ecological Reserves System. The Ecological Reserve elders’ interviews are part of the legacy of the BC’s Protected Areas organized by Friends of Ecological Reserves. This is a transcript of an interview
August 15, 2011 To: Ministry of the Environment Honourable Terry Lake ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca BC Nature (Federation of BC Naturalists) had a successful AGM in Williams Lake, hosted by the Williams Lake Field Naturalists Society. We are a federation of naturalists clubs throughout BC with a membership of 4,500. As a conservation society, our main objective is