Morice Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) The Morice Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) planning boundaries encompass approximately 1.5 million hectares. They include the communities of Houston, Topley, Granisle, Topley Landing and rural settlements dispersed throughout the plan area. The population of the plan area is approximately 5,200. See the full version with links
In the Canadian Press today, Stanley Tromp writes on the problems of handling potential oil spills in British Columbia. Our concern with the effect of Oil Spills from the proposed increase in tanker traffic past our ecological reserves has been mentioned in previous posts. See :https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/issues/oil-spill-threat/ “VANCOUVER – Officials in British Columbia privately warned the
Warden’s report from Mandy Vaughan: A report from our Aug 20 trip to the bluffs: Two large firepits in the carpark area, I know for sure had been built sometime during the total fire ban. In the woods where the trail meets the beach, evidence of camping included firepits, several hacked down trees and branches,
Prepared By: Jared Hobbs, M.Sc. / RPBio August 15, 2013 Abstract You can access the complete report in PDF form here: CROR sps account This account is intended to provide a complete synthesis of over a decade of research and inventory on the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus oreganus) throughout the species’ Canadian range. This
Warden report by Many Vaughan Peter Hehl, Senior Park Ranger, and I, made a trip out to the Comox Bluffs ER late Friday afternoon, 26 July 2013. As you know, Peter and fellow ranger Jeff had been out there the week before and found an apparently extinguished fire still burning underground. On this trip, Peter
World-Class Oil spill Prevention, Preparedness, Response & Recovery System, July 19, 2013. See the full PDF of this document as presented on the Ministry of the Environment website: West Coast Spill Response_Vol3_Analysis_130722 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The British Columbia Ministry of Environment commissioned Nuka Research and Planning Group, LLC, to prepare this report. The report is the
Volume 2 Vessel Traffic Study: original PDF of Vol 2 published by the BC Ministry of the environment was at: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/main/west-coast-spill-response-study/docs/WestCoastSpillResponse_Vol2_VesselTrafficStudy_130722.pdf See the full PDF on this website at :WestCoastSpillResponse_Vol2_VesselTrafficStudy_130722 The British Columbia Ministry of Environment commissioned Nuka Research and Planning Group, LLC to prepare this report. The report is the second volume of the
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
On one corner of the Ecological Reserve, the Big White resort Development has trespasses into the reserve with permanently installed ski trails. . The first map image below shows the outline of the reserve, the second map image shows a detail of the compromised boundary. It would be interesting to know how this was allowed
The Dewdney and Glide Islands ecological reserve is one of the most vulnerable to the threat of oil spills from the proposed tanker route of the Northern gateway pipeline proposal. The Overview for the ER states the following: Many bog ponds, sloughs, and small lakes are scattered over Dewdney Island in flat areas and depressions,
The images were extracted from Google Earth. These three islands make up the reserve, they lie right in the pathway of the proposed Northern Gateway tanker traffic. The significance of these Islands is ststed in the International Bird Area website: “Seven species of seabirds breed in significant numbers on Moore and Byers Island. Of the
From Google Earth, the fiollowing images have been adapted in order to portray the individuality of these islands. See the reports section to find out som e of the special ecological conditions on the islands. Add New The largest islands support forest cover dominated by Sitka spruce. This covers most of the land area. Small
Documenting Fire History in a British Columbia Ecological Reserve Don Gayton, FORREX Abstract Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) ecosystems in British Columbia have high concentrations of biodiversity and species at risk, and numerous studies suggest frequent, low-in- tensity fire was a historical disturbance pattern in this ecosystem type. Fire history was analyzed in the Trout Creek
VOLUME 1: Assessment of British Columbia Marine Oil Spill Prevention & Response Regime, March 28, 2013. Original PDF was at: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/main/west-coast-spill-response-study/docs/WestCoastSpillResponse_Vol1_InitialAssessment_130717.pdf Internal copy of VOLUME 1 PDF on this website: WestCoastSpillResponse_Vol1_InitialAssessment_130717 Below is presented the executive summary of VOLUME 1 WEST COAST SPILL RESPONSE STUDY, VOLUME 1: Assessment of British Columbia Marine Oil Spill Prevention
The MPA process for the federally controlled waters within the Provincial Marine Ecological Reserve started In 2000. A proposal was submitted by a DFO -convened Advisory Group composed of Sports fisheries, First Nations, science representatives, Provincial Parks, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Pearson College representatives, whale watching groups, diving groups and several environmental NGOs .
Letter from FER Board to : Minister Thomson and Minister de Jong: Re: Section 24 from Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act…. Bill 8…. which allows rollover for large volume based tenures to obtain exclusive land use through awarding of Tree Farm Licenses (TFLs). Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER) made presentation to the MLAs Special Committee on
You will find on this website, several references to controlled burning to address the issue of invasive species, overgrowth of successional species which change the biodiversity of the protected areas, and the increasing threat of desertification with the Northern migration of arid regions. Allan Savory in this TED presentation presents an alternative theory