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More Talk on the Burde Street Ponds
It’s been two-and-a-half months since the San Group gave a press conference announcing a billion dollar investment around two beautiful woodland ponds just inside the the city limits of Port Alberni. Shock waves have been rippling through the city as people digested the news. Letters of opposition have appeared in the local newspaper. A FacebookContinue reading “More Talk on the Burde Street Ponds”
Native Mistletoe
It’s still a bit early for a Christmas blog. Nevertheless I’ll write about it because I made an interesting observation the other day. It a case of mistletoe on a Douglas fir tree nearby. OK, interesting to me. The mistletoe that most people are familiar with is the European one associated with Christmas. It hasContinue reading “Native Mistletoe”
Take a Hike to Snag Lake
Took a hike last Thursday to Snag Lake. We drove to Sutton Pass and then took the logging road to the right and drove to a crossroads just before a bridge that takes you to a First Nations power station. The plan was to hike the road to the end and then go a coupleContinue reading “Take a Hike to Snag Lake”
Chinook Smolts in the Somass Estuary
A couple of weeks ago I was watching Global News at Six. A story about the future of the Squamish Spit came on. As I watched, I realised that they had exactly the same issue that we have here in our estuary with respect to Chinook salmon smolts. In their case, a long narrow bermContinue reading “Chinook Smolts in the Somass Estuary”
A Canadian Tree Species Only Found in the Alberni Valley, and Vancouver Island
It’s Oregon Ash; in Latin, it’s Fraxinus latifolia. And it has a confused story. One confusing thing about it is that besides the trees on Vancouver Island, the rest are in the United States. Another is that my sources are divided on whether it is a native tree, introduced, or naturalized. The Conservation Data CentreContinue reading “A Canadian Tree Species Only Found in the Alberni Valley, and Vancouver Island”
China Creek Falls
Six kilometers south of Port Alberni, just past the shop yard where logging machinery is repaired, there is a trail head. There is no sign announcing it; just a turnout in the road to Bamfield. A big yellow gate. bars access to a road that leads into a big gravel pit. There are no signsContinue reading “China Creek Falls”
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