NEWS RELEASE TLC RECEIVES BEQUEST VALUED AT OVER $8.8 MILLION Donation includes 8 acres of urban greenspace in the Blenkinsop Valley FOR RELEASE: September 10, 2022 Victoria, BC – The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) is honoured to announce the receipt of a bequest of three adjacent properties in the Blenkinsop Valley, funds to maintain [...]
New community park land acquired for Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Sep 09, 2022 Victoria, BC — The Capital Regional District (CRD) Board has approved the purchase of 23.5 hectares of land in Otter Point as a new Juan de Fuca Electoral Area community park. The property has been identified as a prime candidate for purchase as [...]
Goodbye TLC! My time as intern has finished, and I just wanted to share my appreciation for the great team who work at TLC and have the passion for conservation. I’ve had an awesome experience as a summer intern: learning covenant monitoring, learning the perspective of a biologist in relation to my geography point [...]
As my co-worker and I were hiking along an old logging road while monitoring a covenanted forest behind the Malahat, we spotted a Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) sitting on an old log. Before I could get a picture, it scampered away, but it was amazing to see this native squirrel because it is usually [...]
Last week TLC was joined by two volunteers to conduct White-top aster (Sericocarpus rigidus) counts in our Langvista covenant near Mill Hill Regional Park. The White-top aster is a blue-listed at-risk species that are found in Garry oak meadow ecosystems on Vancouver Island. Asters are a family of flowering plants that look very similar [...]
Last week TLC staff member Torrey Archer and I monitored DeMamiel Creek in Sooke, with landowners Gertie and Dean. The creek was unusually full this year from the cooler summer and abundance of rain, which was great for the salmon fry and other creatures in the creek! One super cool critter we found that [...]
One of the most common invasives in Victoria is English Ivy (Hedera helix), a pervasive and fast-growing vine that sprawls across landscapes and climbs structures like trees and buildings. English ivy has a rapid growth rate and even grows in the winter because of its need for little light or water, making it a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]