Dear TLC Supporters,As springs unfolds into summer throughout the province, we are witnessing the many shifts that highlight this abundant time of year. In the Clearwater River Valley, snow melt is rising local water levels and seasonal migrations are bringing the moose and grizzly bears across our 141-acres of wetlands, meadows, and forests. On Cortes [...]
NEWS RELEASE TLC’S DEERTRAILS NATURALIST PROGRAM TO OFFER TWO SESSIONS IN 2023 Students to learn from seasoned naturalists and artists in the Clearwater River Valley and Cortes Island FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2023 Cortes Island & Clearwater, B.C. –The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) is pleased to announce that the [...]
Join war historian Prof. Geoffrey Bird in the Royal Roads Library on November 11 for a free, public screening of his new film, Abkhazi Garden: Sanctuary from War. The film explores the stories of Peggy and Nicolas Abkhazi, whose lives were caught up in the world wars. Their story brings them to Victoria where they created a beautiful [...]
NEWS RELEASE VOLUNTEERS ADD 1,000 NATIVE PLANTS TO FORT SHEPHERD CONSERVANCY AREA Local conservation groups contribute to Welcome Back Monarchs event in support of native pollinators FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 9, 2022 Trail, B.C. –The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) and Sinixt Confederacy welcomed partners in conservation Kootenay Native Plant Society (KNPS), Rotary Club [...]
Join the Kootenay Native Plant Society in welcoming back the monarchs to the West Kootenays by planting milkweed and a collection of other native plants at Fort Shepherd. On Saturday October 15th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, they will celebrate the return of monarchs to the West Kootenay in a full day excursion into [...]
We wish to send a HUGE thank you to the 26 volunteers from Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT), TLC, and Edward Milne High School for showing up on June 23 to help restore part of Ayum Creek Regional Park Reserve from the invasive Common Periwinkle (Vinca minor). The team put cardboard and mulch over a [...]
Dear TLC Members, Amidst Passport to Nature events, restoration activities, welcoming guests to Abkhazi Garden, and seasonal covenant monitoring, we are looking ahead to what is bound to be a fully scheduled fall. I’m writing today to ask that you mark your calendar with TLC’s 2022 Annual General Meeting on Saturday, September 24, at [...]
The skies cleared and sun illuminated the first restoration event of the year at Ayum Creek Regional Park Reserve at the end of February. Volunteers worked together to hand-pull the garden escapee, and very invasive, periwinkle (Vinca minor) that blankets some of the forest floor. Since 2017, TLC’s biologist Torrey Archer has been spearheading [...]
At the end of March, TLC’s Covenant Coordinator Larissa Bron was joined by four volunteers for annual covenant monitoring at the Barer and Kinghorn covenants. The crew began the day greeted by many competing bird songs as the forest was enjoying a warm spring morning. This was followed by many moss observations, three photo-point [...]
Participants to learn from seasoned naturalists in the Clearwater River Valley The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC) is pleased to announce that the second session of the Deertrails Naturalist Program will explore the transition of the Clearwater River Valley to Autumn: attend to the uprising of mushrooms, the blushing of leaves, and the cool [...]