2011 Warden Notes From Warden Laurie Rockwell On 11/04/2011 4:25 PM, Laurie Rockwell wrote: Mark, here are the news from my monthly tour: • I was in the ER from 6.50-9.05 am; walk in and out time was 50 minutes. • at 8.25 it was 7 degrees, with minimal wind and periods of sun. •
Rosemary Taylor was along on the Fraser River Trip of October 7, 2011 doing photography. We came across a small green plant, at first thinking they were seedlings sprouting on a sandbank , I called over Terry Taylor for an identification . He immediately came up with the fact that it was a liverwort,
On September 27, 2011, Ryan Murphy, the Ecoguardian at Race Rocks observed a new event, a baby sea lion with its mother hauled out at Race Rocks. Traditionally this has only been a haul out for mature bulls and a smaller number of immature sea lions. The photos in the gallery below were taken by
Since 2000, the website www.racerocks.com & www.racerocks.ca have carried the observations at Race Rocks of ecoguardians, wardens, students and faculty of Pearson College. Posts tagged with warden’s reports on the ecoreserves website are located here: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/97+wardenreports/ Posts on the Racerocks.ca site tagged as warden’s reports here: http://www.racerocks.ca/wp/category/er-warden-report/ These reports have been provided by Garry Fletcher
On May 6, 2007, members of the Friends of Ecological Reserves Board joined retiring warden Chris Pielou current warden Helen Robinson along with Bowser ER warden Maggie Little and others for a trip to the slopes of the Comox Lake Bluff Ecological Reserve. Mouse over images will initiate comment on the image. Click for large
Paul Linton who was the Ecological reserve warden for Brackman Island has done a great job in producing a phenology, or time of blooming of the plants on Brackman Island. This is also an excellent species list as well. This was also done for 1995 Phenology see PDF Brackman Island Phenology_1999
Paul Linton has compiled the Phenology for Brackman Island in 1995 . (Also see 1999’s version.) Brackman Island Phenology_1995
Naturalistic behavior studies are expensive time-wise and tend to yield relatively small amounts of scientifically pure data those which are easily measured and repeatable when compares to other methods of study. When compared to other methods of study at least partially due to this phenomenon, there appears to be a paucity of data published on
Trudy Carson provided a description of the islands and the bird species. A species list of macrophytes, and Randy Baker has provided a report on annelids. The uniqueness of this reserve and why it was an IBP Area, is that they are a small group of islets with different habitats ( landform and vegetation) features
Hans Roemer produced these notes in 1979 prior to the naming as an ecological reserve Roemer 1979 Big Creek hand written Field Notes pdf file:Roemer1979 Big Creeknotes
Trudy Carson ( now Trudy Chatwin) made field notes on rocky crevice and shore plants, seepage rock crevice Plants , higher level rock crevices( 20 ft) and interior forested areas. Cassin ‘s auklet burrows were observed. Two burrows were investigated and two young were pulled, one was considerably larger than the other.
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 .
PDF files: dive_report(1) Click on the following introduction.
Bristol Foster, Trudy Carson and Martin Lee visited the Kerouard Isalnds and made this report for the BC Provincial Museum, in 1977. ” These islands are the southern most islands on the Queen Charlotte Islands, ( Gwaii Haanas) located south off Kunghit Island and South of St. James Island.”. In these hand-written notes they indicate
By Dr. K.I. Beamish, Contains a species list of vegetation. Description of a Coastal Peat-bog lake shoreline and rocky headlands . Apparently never burned, most of the shoreline is quite natural beamish_description_plant_list_ambrose_lake 1968