Images of Tankers and Animals at Race Rocks.

The vessel traffic lane in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is very narrow and it lies within 3 to 5 nautical miles of the boundary of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve.  The ecoguardians at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve have contributed photos of the local fauna, with marine vessels, including tankers in the background  and

Leach’s Storm Petrel Research on Cleland Island ER #1

Reports in BC Environment Ministry Files 2008 Annual Report for Park Use Permit # VI 0610242: Link to report, 2008 Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia. Leach’s Storm-petrel survival in British Columbia (Jun 2008) 
Author: Harfenist Environmental Consulting; Harfenist, A. In 2008 Anne Harfenist completed her second year of a survival study of Leach’s Storm-petrels

Ground Nest Survey of Cleland Island and Murre Reef (Jan 2004)

(Jan 2004) 
Author: Clarkson, P.; Bruhwiler, F.; Hunter, T. Cleland Island is British Columbia’s first Ecological Reserve and one of the largest seabird colonies along Canada’s west coast. It provides nesting habitat for a wide-variety of both ground and burrow-nesting birds. This report summarizes finding from 2 visits to the island during 2004 to survey

Beresford Island ER #12 Overview: Physical and Biological

Original Purpose: To protect colonies of nesting seabirds and their habitat Physical: A small, rocky island, roughly oval in shape, which rises steeply from deep water to a rounded top. The shore is rock and the upper slopes tend to have less soil cover than Triangle and Sartine islands. A number of rocks and reefs

Sartine Islands Ecological Reserve Ecological Overview, Physical and Biological

Original Purpose: To protect colonies of breeding seabirds and their habitat Physical: This is a rugged, elongate island which rises steeply from the sea to a series of pinnacles and humps. The shoreline is rock, rising directly from the water, except for a narrow boulder beach along the northeastern shore. Though steep, most of the

A List of Seabird nesting sites in Barkley Sound, BC– 1971

Provincial Museum and UBC field parties conducted bird and mammal  investigations in Barkley Sound from 1954 to 1970 inclusive. 55 of approx. 55 islands,islets and reefs  were visited. Nesting sites of 6 species of sea birds  previously unrecorded are lsited. See the complete paper –PDF file: barkley_sound_sea_bird_nesting_sites