ER #76 Fraser River – March 13, 2021 Report by Bill & Bev Ramey Sunshine 7 to 12o C, calm, sunny with occasional high thin clouds Launch kayaks from Nicomen Island about 9:30 am; return 6:00 pm Walking and paddling distance about 14 km Water level at Mission: 0.5 to 1.5 metres (tidal) Water level
Jim Pojar in February of 1981, as a member of the British Columbia Forest Service wrote this paper . “a small intact west coast drainage system, biologically representative but with several floristic rarities; vegetation modified by extreme exposure; an estuary and a sand beach ecosystem; and the possibility (which needs further investigation) that the Brooks
The pdf of this presentation is available here: 2016_Wali-Pojar_UBC_VJ Krajina Legacy Invited presentation for the Centennial of the University of British Columbia 2015 History of 100 years of the Department of Botany, 2016 The Legacy of Vladimir J. Krajina and Contributions to UBC Botany Mohan K. Wali1 and Jim Pojar2 For what is the present
Peter Courtney, who along with George Scotter and the Central Okanagan Naturalists’ Club botany group have documented the plants found in the Browne Lake Ecological Reserve near Kelowna. He sent warden Don Guild his updated list of their findings. VASCULAR PLANTS OF BROWNE LAKE ECOLOGICAL RESERVE Peter Courtney, March 2021 INTRODUCTION At the request of
We have made this report private and for research purposes only . Contact BC Parks for information to access if you are involved in research. Below are some of the images from the report
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Our thanks to Will MacKenzie who took these photos in The Vladimir Krajina (Port Chanal) Ecological Reserve in September 2006:
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
Photos provided by Dr. Bruce Archibald. 1. A rare fossil of a 50 million-year-old wasp of the family Trigonalidae. This small group of parasitoids have complex life histories consuming sequential hosts. First, a caterpillar eats their tiny eggs on leaves. They then enter, live within, and feed upon other parasitoids that are themselves inside and
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
Here are some references relevant to the three proposed Eocene Fossil sites in the BC Interior which in the past have been proposed as ecological reserves; 1. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e04-100 Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape1 David R. Greenwood, S. Bruce Archibald, Rolf
By Mary Rannie: Members of the FER board who drove the 2 hour west coast road from Victoria to Port Renfrew on on August 28th, enjoyed a day greatly anticipated. Garry and Helen Fletcher, Marilyn Lambert andMary Rannie had never visited the nearby San Juan River Estuary, ER #141. From May to October its newly
2019 Bowser Ecological Reserve Wardens’ Annual Report by Gerry van der Wolf On behalf of Chris James and Peter Spodzieja February 1, 2019 Gerry and Chris arrived at the ER mid-morning, then checked the plantation road to the fork at 1.8 km. We noted that someone had remove sand with a shovel along the roadside,
2018 Bowser Ecological Reserve Wardens’ Annual Report by Gerry van der Wolf on behalf of Bill Image and Peter Spodzieja January 9 Bill and Gerry arrived at the ER in the early afternoon, noted more yard waste dumped at the main gate, then checked the plantation road to the fork at 1.8 km. We noted
Adrian de Groot writes to FER: I visited Catherine Creek ER yesterday. I posted 50 iNaturalist observations for the ER, and have attached a few vegetation type photos for you also. Adrian Adrian de Groot Drosera Ecological Consulting Smithers, BC, V0J 2N6 droseraecological.com
Link to the website on Pink Mountain by Ron Long
Ecological Reserve Wardens Bev and Bill Ramey submitted this report on a visit to the Ecological reserve on October 29, 2019 See this pdf at: FER #76 2019, October 29, for FER November 2019 saw a fresh water mussel shell, in similar location to shells found Dec 2014, and in a couple of other subsequent
Sunshine Coast group rallies to save Forest with 1,000 Hearts from loggers: Vancouver Sun Randy Shore Publishing date: October 24, 2019 ROBERTS CREEK (Oct. 24, 2019) — Ross Muirhead and Elphinstone Logging Focus are trying to stop the emerging old growth inside a proposed provincial park expansion from being logged. Randy Shore/Postmedia News [PNG Merlin
Eagle Ridge is mentioned in part of this report: Phase 1 Report: Watershed Character and Condition Cowichan Station Area Association Prepared by: Heather Pritchard, RPF Emily Doyle-Yamaguchi, FIT Dr. Martin Carver, PGeo/PEng, PAg Carol Luttmer, MSc September 30, 2019 See the PDF here: EBAKoksilah_Phase1_Final_Sept2019 Introduction The approximately 30,000-hectare Koksilah River watershed is a place of
