SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout) Land Back Campaign Completed with TLC's Dedication of Gift from Legacy Donor Historical photo of the SȾÁUTW̱ Fullford reserve on Salt Spring Island, to which Lot A provides direct, land-based access. Photo credit Maud Weaver-Bridgman c. 1910. Salt Spring Island, BC – Just in time for the giving season, Salt [...]
The Salt Spring Island Conservancy (SSIC) is thrilled to announce that Creekside Rainforest is now protected in perpetuity as the Conservancy’s ninth nature reserve. The acquisition of the 6.3 hectare (15.5 acre) Creekside Rainforest is part of a long-term vision of Salt Spring Island’s conservation community to protect the fresh water, salmon habitat, rare species, [...]
Bundled in our jackets, toques, and gloves, I’m joined by TLC staff and local Salt Spring Island supporters in the cool shade of one of the island’s rare coastal temperate rainforests. Enormous bigleaf maples (Acer macrophyllum) and western redcedars (Thuja plicata) – some believed to be 250 years old – surround and tower over us, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]