Deadline for Club Applications for “Club Support” Grants – January 31, 2015
Deadline for Resolutions to be presented at the AGM – 2015 is February 28, 2015
Deadline for BC Nature Award Nominations – February 28, 2015
AGM 2015 – Salt Spring Island – May 7 – 10, 2015. Registration information in Winter BCnature issue.
Rene Savenye Scholarship applications should be in prior to May 30, 2015 – see website for application.
FGM 2015 and AGM 2016
BC Nature is actively looking for one of our clubs to host FGM 2015 – Late September 2015 and AGM 2016 – early May 2016. This year and in past years, two clubs have co-hosted the AGM or FGM. Please think about it!
Hosting a conference for BC Nature is rewarding for both your club and BC Nature.
Please email if your club has any interest and we can supply all the information you need to present to your board.
Issue 37
Date October 2014
Thank you Shuswap Naturalists
A great time was had at the Fall General Meeting and conference, attended by @ 140 members. The weather was glorious, the birds abundant and a nice day was had looking for the elusive returning Sockeye.
Full report to come in the Winter Magazine.
Stop the Radio Towers
For anyone living in the vicinity of Point Roberts, Here’s a link to Delta Councillor Jeannie Kanakos’ request that our federal government appear at the Whatcom County hearing of the application for a Conditional Use Permit for the 50,000-watt AM transmitter that’s posed to cover us, Tsawwassen, in extremely high levels of blanketing interference.
It’s not lost on Councillor Kanakos and the rest of Delta Council that our Member of Parliament Kerry-Lynne Findlay and her federal cabinet colleagues James Moore of Industry Canada and John Baird of Foreign Affairs can be doing more on our behalf.
Click on Item F17 “Point Roberts Radio Tower Petition”, or advance 57 minutes into the webcast: Link Here
Enbridge
Last week, approvals were given to those that had filed a suit against the Federal Government on the approval of the Enbridge Pipeline. BC Nature was one of those thirteen filers.
Articles Enbridge Northern Gateway Investor Report: The Peoples Version – Link
Newspaper and Radio articles pertaining to some of the issues being discussed.
N.W.T. premier Bob McLeod promotes Arctic pipeline idea in Washington – Link
Cooper: Prentice must take on climate-change activists Link Here
Vaughn Palmer: No cracks in the B.C. Liberals’ stonewall on Mount Polley – Link Here
North America Can Say Goodbye to Half its Birds if Rising GHG Emissions Aren’t Stopped Link Here
Potential consequences of FIPA for Canada’s ecological systems – Link Here
Interesting Sites and Articles
Check out the Yukon Conservation group Newsletter – check out the article on Casino Mines
New wilderness park created on eastern edge of Kelowna – link
U.S. Earthcam – although the season is done for the Osprey, this is a great site to bookmark for next year – Link
In just the past 40 years, the world has lost over half its wildlife population. That estimate comes from scientists at the World Wildlife Federation and the Zoological Society of London in a report today called “Living Planet Report 2014? Link Here
Drone captures incredible video of volcano eruption in Iceland Link Here
35,000 walrus in Alaska: Why they came ashore Link Here
About Town
Sunday, October 12th, Langley Municipal Nature Park – 10am – 12pm. Join FoSBS and the Little Campbell Watershed Society to remove invasive species at the Park as a part of Langley’s Water Weeks celebration events. Register with Lisa Dreves –
Saturday, October 18th Dart’s Hill Native Plant Demonstration Garden Planting 10:00 am – 12pm. Register with Kathy Whittemore
Saturday, October 25th Little Campbell Forest Trail Planting 9:00 – 12pm. Join us to plant additional native trees and shrubs along the Little Campbell Forest Trail. Register with Alison Prentice
Saturday, November 1st Blackie Spit Environmentally Sensitive Area 9:30 am – 12:30pm. Join us to plant native trees and shrubs to further enhance the wildlife habitat at the Rene Savenye ESA. Register with Alison Prentice
October 11th, Invasive removal on the Sam Hill tributary of the Little Campbell River south of 16th Ave. October 22nd, Invasive removal on West Twin creek just south of 16th Ave on 184th St. For further information, contact Christy Juteau,
There are 100's of toadlets migrating across the trail systems in Cumberland Forest. Please note the trail closures, and share this post.Major trail closures. Please do not use the west side of the network, see the map. Tens of thousands of toads are dispersing in all directions west and south of Alan Lake. SoBo No Michi is closed Sykes Bridge area is teaming, Perseverance Creek is also extremely busy. The south side of Alan Lake is also covered with toads. We have closed all access via Davis lake main to Perseverance Creek, the Potholes, Sobo No Michi etc. All trails that come down the west side back to Perseverance area are closed. Please do not go into that zone for the next few days. Hopefully we will be clear to roll by the weekend.Please respect all signage at the trail access points and in the CRI car park, informing you of up-to-date information of trail closures and the migration routes.Please share and reshare. Cumberland Forest Village of Cumberland ... See MoreSee Less
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A new club; "The Friends of Eagle Bluffs Forest Society" has just joined BC Nature: