Category Archives: Field Trips

Botany Outing Report: May 2019

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Botany

On May 6th at Kin Beach Park, six of us including Helen, spent a couple of hours uprooting more of the invasive Lamium galeobdolon (yellow archangel) as well as equally aggressive Aegopodium podagraria (goutweed) under the watchful eye of the … Continue reading →

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Shoreline Outing Report: Denman Island, April 24th 2019

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Botany

Hey Everyone, Yesterday’s trip to Denman intersected with ideal spring weather. We visited two bedrock  shorelines– one on the east side of the island and another on the west. Some notes to follow up on things we saw. (1) Geology … Continue reading →

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Botany Group Report – April 1st Outing to the Comox Lake Bluffs Ecological Reserve

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Botany

15 of us had a glorious day in the shade of the forested areas, and out in the sun on the old road that skirts around behind the open bluffs (which we avoided because of the extreme aridity).  The hot … Continue reading →

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Botany Outing Report: April 1 2019

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Botany

Greetings all, Spring is suddenly upon us.  Luise reported that there were goldstars (crocidium multicaule) blooming on Hornby on Sunday 17th; check out Point Holmes, usually one of the earliest spots here on the mainland. The coltsfoot (Petasites palmatus) that … Continue reading →

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Shoreline Outing Summary: Mission Road Pleistocene Deposits, Mar 13th, 2019

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Botany

Roughly twenty shoreline members made it out on Wednesday to investigate 12,500 year old sand deposits laid down 10m below sea level back when the the waves would have been lapping at the spot where today you find the front … Continue reading →

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Outing: Shoreline and Botany, Miracle Beach, 4th March 2019

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Botany

Between the Botany group and the Shoreline group, we had a big turnout on a lovely late winter day. Conditions were so great, in fact, that we were hardly bothered by the lack of seaweeds that were supposed to be … Continue reading →

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Shoreline Outing Summary: Miracle Beach, Night outing, Jan 19th, 2019

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Botany

Hi Everyone,Here is my take on last night’s wonderful outing at Miracle Beach Thirteen naturalists caught a break in the weather to survey the sand flats of Miracle Beach Provincial Park. Under the light of a full moon, the group … Continue reading →

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Shoreline Outing Summary: Williams Beach, High Tide, November 28th, 2018

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Botany

We had a good turnout on a mild and bright Wednesday morning at Williams Beach for the second highest tide of the year. While confined to a narrow strip of shore between the gentle waves and the slippery, imbricate logs, … Continue reading →

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Botany Outing Report: Fungi and Soup, Nov 19th, 2018

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Botany

Botany Group Report  : November  19th Outing Tsolum River Road The range of fungi for later November was still large.  Of note we identified many large Russula brevipes – short- footed russula- that heaves up moss, turf, branches etc. ( … Continue reading →

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Botany Outing Report: Paradise Meadows, Oct 15th, 2018

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Botany

Report on October 15th walk  For those who missed the report at our last general CVN meeting, for the October 15th gathering we had a glorious day to meander around the Paradise Meadows loops, collecting the SWI plant signs to store … Continue reading →

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