Site Visit: Rubus nivalis locations, Mount Elphinstone Aug. 11, 2014. Rubus nivalis site visit Aug. 2014 (5) Copy final Margaret Symon, R.P.F. P.C.P. Strathcona Forestry Consulting Introduction. At the invitation from Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) Society*, I joined Mr. Ross Muirhead on August 11 to examine Rubus nivalis (Snow Bramble) at a proposed BCTS cutblock
Steve Shultz, the new volunteer warden for Chilliwack River ER #98 sent this report to BC Parks. Visit :June 1, 2014 —Visit Time: June 1, 2014 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm Purpose: As this is my first year as the warden for this reserve, I wanted to do a “baseline” condition report for this reserve. I
Alpha Island is one of the islands that make up the Oak Bay Islands Ecological Reserve. ER warden Doug Biffard took these images in 2014 . He has expressed concern about the accelerated erosion on the shorelines of the island.
This report was submitted by Bill and Bev Ramey who were accompanied by Kurtis Hayne and Heather Ulmer. ER #76 – April 12, 2014 Sunshine, 17 degrees C, moderate wind picked up around 1pm, but then died down by late afternoon. Water level at Mission: 0.3 metre to 1.4 metre Water level at Hope: 3.7
See the write up by Stephen Ruttan on the trip to the Galiano Bog Ecological Reserve. Photos by Garry Fletcher –
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
January 30 2014 – Baynes Island Ecological Reserve site visit report Jodie Krakowski, Warden A monitoring visit was organized to coincide with low water levels and the eagle season. We had a good turnout with dry overcast weather. Thanks so much to BC Parks: Kendra Wood, Senior Ranger and Katy Chambers, Area Supervisor, and Quest
The first photo attached is from May of 2013 and was taken by Senior Park Ranger, Kirk Densmore, when the Tranquille ER Wardens had Mike Ryan (FLNRO Plant Ecologist) come and walk around the ER with them and give a presentation. ER Wardens hard at work! May 12th 2013 Thanks to Amanda Roy-Wber for contributing
Warden’s report by Garry Fletcher: In the early morning hours of January 14, a new elephant seal pup was born at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve. This was the 5th pup born to a female called Bertha since January 2009. Ecoguardian on the island Alex Fletcher reported that it was born in the night, some
This presentation was given in December 2013 by Alan Vyse of Thompson Rivers University at the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, BCPARF 2013 – December 3-5th at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops BC. It is presented here as it represents research done in part in Tranquille Ecological Reserve Abstract: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) ecosystems are
Forgotten Giants of the Nechako River Written by June Wood, Author, Home to the Nechako The Nechako River originates in the northern reaches of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, in a vast chain of lakes that stretches to the north and to the south, on the eastern border of the Coast Mountains. Prior to
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
These images have been adapted from Google Earth. They show the 3D profile of the peninsula ER. (G.Fletcher)
These images show the Ospika Cones Ecological reserve.
I had asked ER Warden Kathryn McCourt for an update on the Lake since I was there last year and whether there had been any recent permits for research for the Ecological reserve as I wanted to use it as an example of a reserve with great potential for research where there had been significant
Link to the most recent warden’s report by Garry Fletcher: http://www.racerocks.ca/wp/category/er-warden-report/
We have just received word of the passing of Syd Watts, our long time Ecological Reserve Warden of Mount Tzuhalem. Syd died on May 25, 2013 at Cowichan District Hospital. He had been unwell for some time and valiantly tried to get well so that he could be back to the outdoors he loved so
This image was derived from Google Eath 3D
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