The 2016 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Click here to open the 2016 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Annual General Meeting Pink Mountain – A Strong Case for a new ER Andy MacKinnon Delivers FER AGM Talk on Cool Plants and Their Fungal Friends Fate of BC’s Old Growth Forests in Jeopardy Lasqueti Island Ecological Reserve Field Trip Vancouver Island
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Garry Fletcher The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves has attempted over the past two years to get the government departments of BC Parks and BC Forests Lands and Natural Resources to clarify the process needed for the establishment of Ecological Reserves. Since we have
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 Karel Klinka – 1937 – 2015 It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Karel Klinka, Professor Emeritus of the Forest and Conservation Sciences Department of UBC died on September 15, 2015. Dr. Klinka was an outstanding ecologist, forester, supervisor, mentor, collaborator
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Maleea Acker Reprinted with permission from the December 2015 issue of Focus Magazine By December, rain and the darkness of winter blankets the Capital Region. Berries hang like rubies from the darkening limbs of the Arbutus. Storms shawl the coast with salt spray. Songbirds have
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher The summer LOG 2015 included the Executive Summary of the final written evidence from the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves (Board of FER) sent to the National Energy Board (NEB) in May 2015. We focused our concerns on the
From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Louise Beinhauer Two late summer articles, one appearing in Science an online Journal of original scientific research and the other in Smithsonian Magazine, whose focus was on the research of Tom Reimchen, Chris Darimont, Caroline Fox and Heather Bryan caught my attention. The article in
Fast away the old year passes, join the new yea lads and lasses so the old carol goes, and yes we need to look ahead to what may be difficult times with regard to changes around the globe and shifts in species and ecosystems in response. For me this year has flown by and FER
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER, 2015 The Sea Among Us by Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane, published by Harbour Publishing, presents a comprehensive study of the Strait of Georgia. Twelve experts have come together to provide chapters on fish, marine mammals, geology, oceanography, birds, the history of settlement and of
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER, 2015 By Garry Fletcher, Race Rocks ER Warden and FER Board Member Certainly it was great news to read in the April 1, 2015 edition of the Times Colonist of the birth of another orca to the Southern Resident killer whale population. (TC April 1,
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER, 2015 By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher Please visit: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2015/05/28/final-evidence-report-tmx/ to view the report in its entirety. Executive Summary from the Report This evidence report from Board of the Friends of Ecological Reserves (Board of FER) is for the National Energy Board (NEB) to inform
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER, 2015 Mount Tzuhalem – Breath-taking Vista of Wildflowers –By Emily Dent, BSc (Hon) Bio, BN Mount Tzouhalem is located in the backyard of Duncan (North Cowichan), BC, on Vancouver Island. It is located on municipal forest land, and part of it is an 18 acre
THE LOG Friends of Ecological Reserves NEWSLETTER: Autumn/Winter 2014 See the full pdf here: autumn-winter2014-colour-final-2 Contents: Christmas Yule Log by Mike Fenger B.C.’s Shrinking Ecological Reserves System: By Mike Fenger Invasive Interuptus: By Marilyn Lambert, Volunteer Warden, Oak Bay Island Ecological Reserve An Exemplary Ecological Reserve Warden: By Garry Fletcher Update on NEB-Kinder Morgan Trans
THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Christmas Yule Log Plea By Mike Fenger Thirty-one years is a long time and it is how long Friends of Ecological Reserves has been a registered charity and devoted to BC conservation. This is a sincere thanks to all the current and past members, supporters, wardens
“The Log” Newsletters from 1988 to 1997 have been added to the newsletter archive on September 4, 2014. These 20 newsletters were taken from our old hardcopy paper archive, scanned, OCRed, and added to our site. We hope you enjoy having these available online. To have a look at them, click on this link to the start
The Contents of the Log, Spring/Summer, 2014 President’s Report by Mike Fenger Coastal Ecological Research Legacy Project By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher Race Rocks Trip by Brenda Montgomery FER Gains Intervenor Status for New Review of Kinder Morgan’s Proposed Pipeline Expansion -Compiled by Louise Beinhauer Ironic Blast from the Past by Loiuise Beinhauer Bodega
By Stephen Ruttan On June 2, 2013, some of the Friend of Ecological Reserves board members met at the Schwarz Bay Terminal to take a trip to Galiano Island. Meeting there were Mike Fenger, Mary Rannie, Rick Page, Michael Brinsmead, and Stephen Ruttan. We were going off to have a look at the Galiano Island
By Mike Fenger and Jenny Feick, Ph.D. From The LOG, the Friends of Ecological Reserves Newsletter, Autumn-Winter 2013 To LOG readers: Below is one of the presentations that Friends of Ecological Reserves made while participating in the 4th BC Protected Areas Research Forum held December 3 – 5, 2013 in Kamloops, BC. (See Forum agenda
by Louise Beinhauer Thomas Walter Gillespie, Friends of Ecological Reserves Secretary since 2003, passed away in hospital on November 26, 2013 at the age of 68. Tom lived with lung cancer over the past year and a half, but continued to maintain his commitment to several Victoria-based environmental organizations. From : The LOG, Newsletter of
The Autumn/Winter edition of the Log of the Friends of Ecological Reserves. Thanks to our Editor Louise Beinhauer for again putting together our current edition of the Log. See the full PDF version here; Autumn-Winter 2013-colour-.pdf Or see individual articles : FER Bids a Sad Farewell to Our Long-time Friend Tom Gillespie Planning to Fail