TLC holds over 100 covenants in the Greater Victoria region protecting important ecological areas.
Week two of the Covenant Monitoring Program took TLC volunteers to Bear Mountain. We surveyed a covenant that protects a freshwater marsh that feeds into Millstream Creek and hiked a forested area that comprises the watershed called “River’s Crossing”. While monitoring the 50 acre covenant, volunteers saw a large birds nest (unoccupied at the time) and a magnificent fern covered rock wall along with Garry Oaks, Arbutus, and wildflowers, including Camas!
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A large, unoccupied birds nest.
Ferns, or Polypodium glycyrrhiza, cover this large rock.
I’m grateful to learn that there is a covenant protecting this part of Bear Mountain, and hope that other sensitive areas there will eventually be covered as well.