From: BirdLife International (2021) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Duke of Edinburgh Ecological Reserve. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 12/04/2021. See the map of the area on the Birdlife website Map data ©2021 Site description The Duke of Edinburgh Ecological Reserve is located at the western end of Queen Charlotte Strait, midway between the coast of British
50th Anniversary Timeline – Ecological Reserve Act Following Canada’s commitment to implement the International Biological Program in the early 1960s, and scientific studies in the 1950s and 1960s by UBC Plant Ecologist Dr. Vladimir J. Krajina and other academics, Ray Williston, Minister of Forests, Lands and Water Resources supported the concept of protected reserves representing
This National Film Board film of 1976 profiles Bristol Foster the First Director of the Ecological Reserves Division in British Columbia. It was made shortly after the creation of the Triangle Island – Anne Vallee Ecological Reserve
The 2020-21 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2020-21 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Happy 50th Anniversary to B.C.’s Ecological Reserves!! iNaturalist Surveys in B.C.’s Ecological Reserves Trev Anderson, Race Rocks ER Advocate Turns 100 FER Weighs in on Old Growth Review Strategic Report A Trip
GOOGLE TRANSLATION FROM CZECH: ( Approximately!!) Google sometimes translated Krajina as “landscape” See the complete PDF in its original form here: Vladimir Josef Krajina-1 Šumava, the last day of February 1948. Snowy mountain forest. He doesn’t know much about the Šumava forests, but how much have he experienced such, even riskier, moments? To illegally travel
This picture on the left is significant as it was taken by Hans Roemer when Dr. Krajina first visited what later became the Nimpkish Island Ecological Reserve. Hans says ” I took this photograph in June 1974, it shows Dr. Krajina, flanked by two foresters, making his way towards the largest Douglas-fir that then existed
FROM: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2016 By Fred Beinhauer On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, FER Board members and friends took a field trip to the Lasqueti Island Ecological Reserve # 4. Lasqueti Island is a small island located North of Parksville in the Strait of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and the
At the May 2020 AGM for 2019 of Friends of Ecological reserves, we were honoured to have Bristol Foster join the Board . Bristol had been involved with Ecological reserves in BC since 1974 when the Ecological Reserve Program began. https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/2012/03/17/a-conversation-with-bristol-foster/This link to an interview with Bristol provide the background to his remarkable life and
NFB film on Ecological Reserves
The 2019/20 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available from this website. Just click below. Click here to open the 2019/20 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: 2020 Brings a Renewed Push to Revitalize the ER System A Community Fights to Save Clack Creek Forest Hidden Complexity Revealed, How LiDAR helps re-map Aleza Lake The ‘Blob”,
The 2019 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available from this website. Just click below. Click here to open the 2019 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Friends of Ecological Reserves AGM Highlights from AGM Talk, “Orcas in Peril? Culture and Conservation of” Field Trip to Mount Maxwell ER The Extraordinary Life Of Pen Brown Migratory
AGM-2019 poster-v2
At the May 16 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Ecological Reserves a panel of four speakers presented their analysis of the Problems of the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion program. https://youtu.be/XB1mfWrgH_c This Link provides the images from a presentation by Stafford Reid on Understanding Risks in the Marine Environment on shores of
Also see Observations created by Oluna and Adolf Ceska From Adolf Ceska’s Facebook pages:
The Report by Sue Staniforth is presented in this Newsletter AGM-2017 poster Sue Staniforth presenting the slide show on Introduced Species: see https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/spring-summer-2017-colour-final.pdf
Kathryn McCourt, the ER warden for Mahoney lake has provided this Obituary Sadly, G.Fletcher’s profile of Laurie Rockwell, “An Exemplary Ecological Reserve Warden,” published in “The Log, Autumn/Winter 2014”, requires an update. In February 2017, after twenty-five years of service as an Ecological Reserve warden, Laurie stepped down from the position because of deteriorating health.
From the Alpine Cliub of Canada website: https://accvi.ca/programs/memorial-fund-youth-grants/memoriam/ Rolf, along with his wife Heather were the Ecological Reserve Wardens, for the Nimpkish Island Ecological Reserve until his passing in 2016. (see section in green below:) October 11, 1934 – August 25, 2016 Not long after he was born in Switzerland Rolf’s parents took him into
The following has been reprinted from the Sierra Club website Once in a while the earth is blessed with a special person. Such a person was Dr. Chris Pielou who passed away recently in Comox. I was fortunate to have met a Chris a few times; however my lasting memories of her will be whenever
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
