Today, the Heritage Forest provides old-growth attributes, such as snags and wildlife trees supporting notable key-featured species: Barred Owls, Great-Horned Owls, and Pileated Woodpeckers, among others. The Forest supports a wide variety of flora and fauna, some of which are unique. A Conservation Covenant was signed at a ceremony on July 15, 2008 and registered [...]
In the Spring 2018 edition of TLC's LANDmark newsletter you'll read all about the new wetland parcel TLC protected in the Clearwater River Valley, how we are working with other land trusts and groups to protect special places through conservation covenants, and about TLC's latest initiative, our Passport to Nature. Filled with events designed [...]
A new nature reserve--a forested 62-acre area near Ford Lake, including small streams flowing into the headwaters of Fulford Creek--is now in the hands of the Salt Spring Island Conservancy. The Howard Horel Nature Reserve has been created largely thanks to a generous anonymous donor, with some grant support from Environment and Climate Change Canada [...]
CORTES ISLAND WETLAND AND WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FURTHER PROTECTED BY NEW CONSERVATION COVENANT Campus of Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre now under permanent protection FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2018 Cortes Island, BC – The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) and Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre (Hollyhock) are pleased to announce the protection of 4.1 acres of [...]
On a brutally hot day in late August, TLC and Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) staff climbed a mountain in search of clues on how a forest naturally regenerates after a fire. Unfortunately, a fire broke out in July in the Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park, owned and managed by the CRD and co-covenanted by TLC [...]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Dear Friends of Conservation, This summer we climbed 600 metres up Mount Benson in Nanaimo to teach Vancouver Island University (VIU) students about ecological data collection, repeat photography and plant identification techniques. On a quest for knowledge of how the landscape had changed over the years, we thought this would be [...]
On a brisk, beautiful sunny September day, TLC staff took a trip to Tofino to monitor the exquisite Clayoquot Island Preserve. The island has seen many changes, having once been the major town complete with post office and hotel before Tofino’s population grew. Thankfully, for nature lovers, Clayoquot Island (aka Stubbs Island) was bought [...]
On June 7th TLC staff member Torrey, summer intern Karen and volunteer Kayla began their monitoring day by entering the Hannington swamp located in the Highlands. It was a wet winter this year so the swamp was still very much full of water. This is great for aquatic flora and fauna but for the three [...]
On May 28th TLC Covenant Manager Torrey and summer intern Karen took a crew of volunteers down to the Atkins Road Covenant, a little gem in the middle of a very busy neighborhood, bordered by residential homes, industrial businesses and the Galloping Goose. However, it only takes a few steps into this little 1.67 ha [...]
On June 4th TLC staff member Torrey, summer intern Karen and volunteer Mitch monitored two covenants: the Thetis-Mount Work Connector and an upstream portion of Ayum Creek in Sooke. The trio strolled though the Thetis-Mount Work Connector and noticed clusters of dead Western red cedars along the trail. In recent years Victoria has experienced [...]