Beacon Hill Park Organizers chill before the counting begins: Jon Wiersma (CWF), Catherine Keogen (UVic), Elizabeth Gammell, (CWF), Garry Oak, Val Schaefer (UVic), and Britten Jacob-Schram (UVic), in Beacon Hill Park. Uplands Park and Cattle Point Margaret Lidkea (Friends of Uplands Park), Octavio Cruz (UVic, in red hat), and friends on the foreshore. University of [Continue]
On Friday October 14th we had a small celebration of the RNS Program’s 20th Anniversary at the University Club at the University of Victoria. People seemed to enjoy the slides of 100 student final projects (ER390s) from the last 10 years. Have a look–it’s in two parts. Part 1 (PDF, 8.6 MB) | Part 2 (PDF, [Continue]
Judy Somers of UVic Continuing Studies has posted video clips of Restoration Walks in February on the Gorge, in James Bay, and through Dockside Green. http://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/jamesbay.mp4 – 4 seals dancing for herring at Fisherman’s Wharfhttp://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/dockside.mp4 – water water everywherehttp://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/gorge.mp4 – signs of hope on the Gorge Waterway
This little fellow was dashing along the rocks at Ogden Point Breakwater on Saturday. Mustela vison evagor Hall is the subspecies of American mink native to Vancouver Island, according to Ian McTaggart-Cowan and Charles J. Guiguet’s classic BC Provincial Museum-published manual, The Mammals of British Columbia (1965). There’s some debate about whether the mink that [Continue]