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BC NATURE CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
May 12 to May 15, 20
Hosted by Comox Valley Nature
“Celebrating Nature for 50 Years and 100 Years of Conservation”
Check out the BC Nature AGM 2016 Button above for Details on Accommodations, Attractions, Biographies and Field Trip Descriptions
May 6: Field Trips with available spaces will be posted in the font Lobby of the Filberg Centre, and available on a first come, first serve basis. All trips on Thursday and Sunday are full. Some spaces are available on Friday and Saturday trips. Inquire at the Registration Desk in the front Lobby.
Full Conference Program is here BC Nature Conference and AGM 2016 Program May 6
May 6, 2016: Current Status on Field Trips and Workshops
Sorry, the following Field Trips and Workshops are full:
PROGRAM Registration
Thursday, May 12 Registration: 8 am – 12 pm & 3 pm – 6:30 pm
9 am – 12 pm Workshops
Child Nature Education FULL
Birding Workshop FULL
12 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch on your own
1:30 pm – 4 pm Workshops
Nature Photography for Beginners FULL
Comox Valley Rare and Endangered Species FULL
Watershed Restoration FULL
2 pm – 4 pm Executive Meeting, Filberg Centre Rotary Hall
4 pm – 6 pm Directors Meeting, Filberg Centre, Rotary Hall
4 pm – 6 pm Supper on your own
6 pm – 8 pm Wine & Cheese with Cash Bar Filberg Centre
6:30 pm Pre-Conference Welcome
7 pm Terry Thormin Photography Show
7:15 pm Leslie Baird, Mayor of Cumberland
7:30 pm Kevin Flesher, Poet Laureate
8 pm Dr. Richard Hebda: Climate Change in the Comox Valley
9 pm Krista Kaptein (Important Bird Areas)
10 pm Hall closes
Friday, May 13 Registration: 8 am – 10 am & 3 pm – 6:30 pm
6 am – 8 am Morning Birding Outing FULL
8 am – 9 am Artisan Breakfast at Filberg Centre
9 am Welcome: Andy Everson & Norma Morton
9:30 am – 12:15 pm Presentations: Two Concurrent Sessions
9:30 am – 10:15 am Ecological Conservation Economics: N. Dawe
. Tree Diseases: Dr. D. Morrison
10:15 am – 10:25 am Coffee
10:25 am – 11:10 am Tsolum Restoration: Jack Minard
West Coast Mimulus Genetics: Dr J. Friedman
11:20 am – 12:15 pm Estuary Restoration: J. Sutherst Project Watershed
Wetland Conservation: Dan Buffett
12:15 am – 1:30 pm Lunch on your own
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Field Trips (Mitlenatch leaves at 11:20 am Harold Macy Woodlot
Estuary Archeology & Restoration FULL
VIU Marine Research Station
Point Holmes Foreshore FULL
Mitlenatch Bird Sanctuary Tour FULL
Kin Beach Native Plant Botany FULL
Morrison Creek Headwaters FULL
Allan Brooks and Mack Laing Tour
Innisfree Farm Botanical Gardens
Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society FULL
6 pm – 8 pm Cash Bar, Filberg Centre
6:30 pm – 8 pm CVNS 50th Birthday Dinner
8:15 pm Presentation of CV Plant List: Helen Robinson
8:30 pm Keynote Speaker Dr. Briony Penn
10 pm Hall closes
Saturday, May 14 Registration: 8 am – 10 am ; 3 pm – 6:30 pm
6 am – 8 am Morning Birding Outing FULL
8 am – 9 am Artisan Breakfast at Filberg Centre
9 am – 12 pm BC Nature AGM, Keynote Speaker, Steven Price BSC
12 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch on your own
1 pm – 3 pm BC Nature Foundation AGM, Filberg Craft Room
1:30 pm – 6 pm Field Trips (Mitlenatch leaves at 11:45 pm)
Cumberland Community Forest FULL
Estuary Archeology & Restoration FULL
Vanier Garry Oaks & Towhee
Mitlenatch Bird Sanctuary Tour FULL
Tree Island Sand Dunes** FULL
Morrison Creek Headwaters FULL
Bear Creek Park Hatchery & Wood Ducks FULL
Innisfree Farm Botanical Gardens
Kevin Flesher Environmental Poetry Tour
VIU Marine Research Station
6 pm – 8 pm Cash bar, Filberg Centre
6:30 pm –7:30 pm AGM Banquet: M/C Loys Maingon
7:30 pm – 8 pm Awards
8 pm – 9 pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Val Schaefer
9 pm – 10 pm Raucous Auction with Loys Maingon
10 pm Hall closes
Sunday, May 15
8 am – 1 pm Field Trips (Quadra Island leaves at 7:45 am*)
Tree Island Sand Dunes** FULL
Quadra Island Museum & BBQ FULL
Mitlenatch Bird Sanctuary FULL
Mount Helliwell & Hornby Island* FULL
Comox Lake Ecological Reserve FULL
Notes:
Th = Thursday, F = Friday, S = Saturday, Su = Sunday
* Field trips involving BC ferries are time sensitive.
** Not covered by BC Nature insurance; requires CVN waiver
