Catch up on TLC's 2014 covenant monitoring program with this slideshow of our favourite pics from the season. Keep up to date with this seasons volunteers progress on our blog at conservancy.bc.ca. Interested in volunteering for TLC? Visit our Volunteer page for the latest opportunities. Check out our posts from last years monitoring season: Week [...]
Mauve rhododendron. Photo credit Jeff de Jong. Abkhazi Garden will remain open this week despite work beginning on the front fence. We encourage TLC Members and the public to stop by and check out our progress. Stay tuned for images upon completion the fence project! During the summer season Abkhazi Garden is open [...]
NEWS RELEASE THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BC AND ECOFORESTRY INSTITUTE SOCIETY TO CREATE COMMITTEE REGARDING FUTURE OF WILDWOOD FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 8, 2015 Victoria, BC –The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) and the Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) have agreed to create a committee to review the options regarding Wildwood Ecoforest and present recommendations to [...]
TLC’s Covenant Coordinator Torrey Archer with monitoring volunteer Jonah in head-high salal. Photo Credit Andrew MacKinnon. While monitoring the Sooke Hills covenant, Nathan, Torrey, Jon, Kristi and Jonah take a well-deserved break. Photo Credit Andrew MacKinnon. Nathan, Jonah, Jon, Torrey, and Kristi on their first covenant monitoring visit of the season. Photo Credit [...]
Of all the properties The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) holds, none is more complex than Wildwood, a 77-acre woodlot known as Merv Wilkinson’s ecoforest. The Board of TLC has been grappling over the best management and ownership structure but is confident that a resolution will be reached soon for this much loved property. There [...]
The Board of Directors is proposing to make changes to TLC’s bylaws. In order to make these changes, we are notifying all Members in advance of an Extraordinary General Meeting as per our bylaws and the Society Act. Justice Fitzpatrick has recently approved the Plan of Compromise and Arrangement (the Plan) that was formulated by [...]
NEWS RELEASE THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BC TRANSFERS 29% OWNERSHIP OF MALTBY LAKE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2015 Victoria, BC – The Land Conservancy of BC has sold a portion of its undivided interest in Maltby Lake in Saanich. The transfer was completed on May 1, 2015. The sale was approved by the Supreme [...]
Media Release For Immediate Release April 21, 2015 TLC To Transfer Sooke Potholes Campground to the CRD Victoria, BC - The Capital Regional District (CRD) Board is pleased to announce the pending transfer of Sooke Potholes campground to the Region, with the support of The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) in consideration of their [...]
NEWS RELEASE THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BC TRANSFERS INTEREST IN CHEMAINUS RIVERPROPERTY TO THE COWICHAN VALLEY REGIONAL DISTRICT FOR PARK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 21, 2015 Victoria, BC – The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) has transferred its 50% undivided interest in a Chemainus River property to the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) to create [...]
NEWS RELEASE PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT APPROVED BY CREDITORS AND SUPREME COURT OF BC Supreme Court of BC approves the transfer of the first property in the Plan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2015 Victoria, BC – The Supreme Court of B.C. approved the Plan of Arrangement as agreed upon by The Land Conservancy of B.C. [...]