Donate Now Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that our busy 2025 field season is swiftly coming to a close. As northern winds blow and snow dusts the mountains, TLC staff perform the annual “changing of the guard” – swapping hiking boots, rain gear, and clipboards for warm office attire and keyboards. Not [...]
I’m writing to you as I prepare for the first of our two 2023 Deertrails Naturalist Program sessions. Next week I’ll be with aspiring naturalists at TLC’s 57 hectares (141 acres) of wetlands and wildlife corridors in the Clearwater River Valley; the following week I’ll be headed to Cortes Island to share the beauty of [...]
Abkhazi Garden Relaxing afternoon stroll. The Abkhazi Garden is a heritage home and garden. This charming garden is a love story between Prince and Princess Abkhazi who began building the garden in 1946 and continued to do so for 40 more years. After their deaths the Garden changed hands, and in February 2000, The [...]
TLC has a new conservation covenant application form for perspective landowners that gathers important information about the land you know and love, including a vision statement that can be used to help guide future decisions to ensure your legacy is upheld. A covenant agreement is written in “legalese” which can often leave [...]
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 [...]
The past week I had the amazing opportunity to participate in covenant monitoring at the Howard Horel Nature Reserve on Salt Spring Island with TLC's Covenant Coordinator Larissa Bron, Salt Spring Island Conservancy's (SSIC) Land Manager Rachel Bevington, and SSIC Volunteer Warden Keers Ruurs. This was my first covenant monitoring experience, and I had [...]
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 [...]