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FeaturesAn Interview With Bert Brink

Cypress Provincial Park-Peace at Last

Working Together to Improve B C Parks

BC Parks: A Public Legacy in Jeopardy

The Importance of BC Parks

A Natural Threat: EC's Mountain Pine Beetle

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In this Fall Issue of the BC Naturalist we take a look at the parks we havein British Columbia how they originated and what they mean to us all. Wego from the office of the Minister with responsibility for Parks to ask theyouth of our province what they think about our parks system. We askthose at the leading edge of the Parks controversy for their views on whatneeds to be done to ensure that the parks mandate we all treasure so muchis not squandered by a lack of action and a withdrawal of ftmds. Finallywe look at what Ottawa is thinking about protecting marine areas, we takea glance at Cypress Provincial Park and we examine what needs to bedone on the Caren Range in one of our newest parks.

Moni Habib takes over from Garth Yule as production/layout editor. Hecomes to us from SFU where he studied with Garth. My thanks to ElaineGriffith for asking me to be features editor for this issue.

Paul Harris Jones

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An Interview With

Paul Jones: I'd like to start by asking you how and when someof the first parks in BC came to be established?

Bert Brink. Playing fields came into being wherever peoplesettled. The playing area established at Fort St. James in 1807 wasprobably the first local park in BC. The first Provincial Park inBC was I believe Strathcona Park. The first miners, loggers andfarmers had little time to think about parks but by 1900 there werepeople with leisure time in Victoria; so it was not surprising thattheir curiosity and interest in the natural features of the Islanddeveloped into a drive for parks. Mountaineers and naturalists inthe US and Canada had a hand in establishing Mt. RainierNational Park in the State of Washington and Banff National Parkin the Canadian Rockies.

The second Provincial Park to be established was GaribaldiPark. This again was discovered by naturah'st/mountaineers withsupport coming from the business community in Vancouver.Business interests hoped that Garibaldi would promote interest inand travel on the new Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Members ofthe BC Mountaineering Club had climbed Garibaldi a few yearsbefore World War 1. From the summit they could see theremarkable volcanic structures such as the Black Tusk, The Table,Garibaldi Lake and the magnificent glaciers shining below them.

One of these people by the name of Billy Gray rowed formVancouver to Squamish and then back-packed his way up thatmassive ridge to Rubble Creek. There he blazed a tree saying,'Thank God I made it!" He later lost his life in that country. As akid in the early 20s I became interested in what was going on.Garibaldi became a Provincial Park in 1927 following severalsummer camps on the Black Tusk meadows.

Strathcona and Garibaldi Parks were administered by ParksBoards without any firm budgets from the Provincial Govern-ment. After World War 11 the Boards thought that logging

in the parks might provide revenues for trails and other develop-ments. However, protests by mountaineers, naturalists and theLocal Council of Women brought about changes that were the startof the Park system as we know it today. Under the supervision ofthe BC Forest Service, foresters Ches Lyons and Mickey Trewwere the first Park appointments. These men developed a visionand strengthened the administration of Provincial Parks. Someoneshould write about the role that mountaineers and naturalists playedin establishing our Provincial Parks system.

Regional Parks are quite different and separate from ProvincialParks. They evolved from the need to provide land for recreation.The Greater Vancouver Regional District is an outcome of this.GVRD is one of the best in North America. Here again naturalistshave played a significant role in its development. GVRD serves adensely populated area and encompasses a wide array of featuresfrom beach to mountain wilderness, forest and open lands, historicsites, trail systems and representative plant and animal communi-ties. The Regional Park system had to be created out of privatelands while the Provincial Parks system and the National Parks arebased on Crown lands.

By 1950 or thereabouts the National Parks system got its start.The Parks people went looking for heritage sites across Canada. Iremember taking a real interest in the expansion of the parks. Theylooked at the Fraser and the Okanagan but we still don't haveanything there. They acquired Pacific Rim and Haida Gwaii andthe national interest focused on those sites in the seventies. Thereare other areas with extraordinary values in scenery, wildlife andgeology. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Committee has had alot to do with seeking the best areas as well as our own VNHScamps.

Paul: Bert, can you tell us why the South Chilcotins have such aspecial place in your heart?

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Bert Brink: For a naturalist, the South Chilcotin mountains are ahot spot. They offer a wonderful array of natural features, so manyin fact that I cannot do justice to them in this short discussion. Thereis an abundance of wildlife, a great diversity of plants and animalsthat met here from the north, south, east and west following de-glaciation. There are extensive colourful meadows in summer thatare also fine for winter camping, skiing and snow-shoeing. Thescenery is magnificent and the geology varied. I first fell in lovewith the area in the early '30s. Charlie Cunningham of Bralornevisited the area with his 8mm movie and said it should be a Provin-cial Park. I was the only one in the audience who had been up there.So VNHS made a presentation in 1937 to the Provincial Govern-ment. A resolution went through. And this put a focus on the area.People went in to check it out. Hayward domestic sheep grazed thealpine areas in the summer. Empire Valley and Gang Ranchesgrazed cattle and there was active mining in the vicinity. The oldproposal for a park was turned down. At present logging, probablyheavily subsidized, invades the area and there continues to beresistance from the mining sector. Nevertheless there is massivepublic support for a park.

Paul: In terms of conservation have we done enough to save oldgrowth systems?

Bert Brink: We have a lot of ecosystems in BC. All the lowelevation places have been taken up. We haven't struck the balancevery well. Most of the best sites have been privatized. Consideringthe whole province I have the feeling that we may have missed a lotof opportunities. There's been a tendency for us to neglect importantplaces at low altitudes. How we acquire public and or private landsis really another area. And that means ecological reserves. Should itbe a reserve or a park? We have to make the distinction.

Paul: What about the need to preserve intact shore-to-summitecosystems?

Bert Brink: Oh yes, that should be a major thrust. But beyond thatwhat I would hie to see is an-honest-to-goodness geophysicalsurvey of our BC Coastline. No one has ever done this before.Someone did a survey of our estuaries. We need a biological surveyof the interrelationship of plants and animals to sandy as opposed torocky shorelines. The Coast needs a lot more attention. As we nowconsider establishing marine parks I believe the course of wisdom isto relate them intimately to adjacent shores and streams in physical,biological and sociological terms. This raises questions about ourNational Parks System and the Gulf Islands National Park. I wouldlike to go on but I see we are out of time.

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'Parts in BCCYPRESS PROVINCIAL PARK - PEACE AT LAST?

By Katharine Steig

In June 2002, John Kircher, the new owner of the privatelyoperated ski facilities in Cypress Provincial Park, made agratifying and completely unexpected proposal that may bringpeace at last to this controversy-burdened park in the NorthShore mountains above West Vancouver.

Mr. Kircher has submitted a Master Plan amendment proposal toWater, Land and Air Protection Minister Joyce Murray toabandon certain controversial plans put forth by the previous skifacilities' operator and approved by Government in 1997. Theseplans involved cutting new ski runs through old-growth forestand subalpine meadows on Mount Strachan and also construct-ing a gondola liftline and mountaintop restaurant on Strachan.Instead, Mr. Kircher is proposing to develop new ski runs onBlack Mountain, mostly in second-growth forest, and to focusonly on skiing and other winter sports instead of operating ayear-round commercial recreation resort at Cypress. Althoughsome old-growth will still be cut for ski expansion both inCypress Bowl and Hollyburn Ridge, the amount is considerablyless than under the previous plan.

Mr. Kircher is the Seattle-based president of Boyne Resorts'western operations. Boyne is a long-established resort companyand one of the top five in the United States. Boyne purchasedCypress Bowl Recreations Ltd. (CBRL) a year ago from thesmall local company that had been the successful bidder whenthe BC Parks-run ski facilities were privatized in 1984. WhileMr. Kircher's proposal was inspired to some degree by the2010 Winter Olympic Bid Committee's plans to use BlackMountain for snowboarding and freestyle skiing events, he hadalready recognized the ecological value of Mount Strachan'sexceptional old-growth when skiing in the area last winter and

he was also interested in ending the years of controversy atCypress. The proposed development on Black Mountain willallow CBRL to maintain the same maximum skier carryingcapacity that was approved in the 1997 ski area Master Plan.The new plan is not dependent on the success or failure of theVancouver-Whistler Olympic bid.

Although Friends of Cypress Provincial Park Society (FCPP)would prefer to have no more old-growth cut in the park, theorganization is very pleased by Mr. Kircher's proposal andlooks forward to the possibility of at last establishing a coopera-tive relationship with CBRL. Given the Ministry of Water,Land and Air Protection's plans to cut BC Parks' funding evenfurther, FCPP and CBRL may well need to work together toensure that the Ministry fulfills its responsibility to provideadequate staffing and maintenance for this most frequentlyvisited day-use provincial park in British Columbia.

Last, as this Ministry assesses the advantages and disadvantagesof contracting out and/or privatizing services within our provin-cial parks, it is worth noting that hundreds of thousands ofpublic dollars were spent during the 1990s Cypress masterplanning process in attempts to resolve conflicts between theformer ski operator and BC Parks. The 1997 Master Plan didnot bring peace to Cypress, despite the Special PlanningCommission's "peace plan" recommendations. While peacemay finally be achieved at Cypress, thanks to a new andinnovative ski operator, the cost of losing control of publicassets through privatization should not be forgotten.

Katharine Steig, Director and Past ChairFriends of Cypress Provincial Park Society

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Parks In BC

WORKING TOGETHER TO IMPROVE

By Joyce MurrayMinister of Water, Land and Air Protection

'To know nature and to keep i* worth knowing," themotto of the Federation of BC Naturalists, issomething that all British Columbians can aspire to.We in BC are fortunate to have one of the best parkssystems in the world that allows us to get to knownature up close and in all its splendour. It isincumbent upon each of us to do what we can topreserve such opportunities for future generations.

While some remote parks offer challenges for onlythe most experienced backcountry enthusiasts,others are suitable for those looking for a weekendgetaway or even just a walk in the woods. Withmore than 330 campgrounds and 480 day-use areas,our parks offer something for everyone. About 60per cent of British Columbians visit a provincialpark each year and surveys consistently show a highdegree of visitor satisfaction.

Over the past 10 years, the previous governmentrapidly expanded the number of parks, yet theyliterally had no long-term management plan in placeor under development to deal with these changes.The time has now come for a hard look at our parksystem and this government is tackling thatchallenge head on.

In May, I appointed a recreation stewardship panelto find solutions to managing park, fish and wildliferecreation services. The panel is consulting withenvironmental groups, First Nations and the generalpublic in order to develop the best plan formaintaining and, in some cases, increasing outdoorrecreation opportunities.

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The panel will be considering new ways to involveand benefit First Nations, local communities,stewardship groups and the private sector. The privatesector has been involved in various park recreationservices since the early 1980s, and since 1990, it hasprovided almost all services in road accessible parks.Local small businesses already offer a variety ofrecreation and eco-tourism choices, such as guidedhiking and horseback trail riding, and First Nationsalso provide services in several parks. This model hasbeen very successful as government continues to sethigh standards that our campground and day use areaoperators consistently meet. The panel is charged withfinding ways to build upon this model of success inorder to enhance service quality and protect thecharacter of our parks over the long-term.

Some people have said that this review somehow putsour parks system in jeopardy. On the contrary, thisreview is about strengthening and improving our parksystem through the delivery of more efficient andeffective services. This government will not "sell off'our parks, and we will continue to ensure that our parisystem remains affordable and accessible for allBritish Columbians. This government believes that,while the park system plays an invaluable role inprotecting wilderness values, parks are also for peopl(and we will continue to encourage B.C. residents andtourists to visit and enjoy them.

Our parks are an incredibly valuable public asset andthey will remain so under public management. Asthose involved in the naturalist movement know,outdoor recreation is an important part of our culture

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and way of life. It plays a role in our livelihoods, ourleisure time and is fundamental to our quality of life.By looking at new partnerships and resources for theparks system we will ensure that we provide the kindsof services that our world-class system deserves.

The new management and funding model developedby the recreation stewardship panel will be the resultof extensive public consultation and the success of thepanel's review will depend on the good ideas of thosewho enjoy the outdoors. Included in the list ofparticipants is the Federation of BC Naturalists and Iencourage you to bring your ideas forward andcontribute actively to this process. The panel will beconsidering all ideas that are brought forward,including the exploration of new partnerships withstewardship groups, local communities and FirstNations.

B.C. has one of the best park systems in the world. Wemust act now to make sure we are managing oursystem in a sustainable and responsible manner thatwill protect and enhance it over the long term. This isa process that depends on groups such as theFederation of BC Naturalists, who can help to ensurethat British Columbians get to know nature and keep itworth knowing for generations to come.

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Parks in BC

B.C. PARKS: A PUBLIC LEGACY IN JEOPARDYBy Sarah Pugh

Vattwlla Wilderness Society

Our park system in the past few months has witnessed unprec-

edented staff lay-offs, major budget cuts, threats of provincial park

closures, and the potential decommissioning of South Chilcotin

Park. How could one possibly believe Water, Land and Air

Protection (WLAP) Minister Joyce Murray's claims that her

government has "demonstrated a significant commitment to the

park system"?

Recent months have also seen the government reaching out to

the private sector, with offers of money-making opportunities

within parks, despite the documented public will that parks remain

public, to be funded and protected by tax dollars (Park Legacy

Project Final Report, 1999). In defense of her government's moves

to foster private control of our park system, Murray argues that "all

privatization of campground management took place in 1990," so

why, suddenly, all this fuss?

While it is true that small contractors have been operating some

campgrounds for a number of years, it is far from true that the

changes the government is now implementing represent simply

more of the same. Businesses have never before been asked what

kinds of user fees they would like to charge in parks, and for what

kinds of services. They have never before been openly encouraged

to invest in park infrastructure, nor encouraged to form business

groups and submit large-scale bids for contracts, nor offered an

opportunity to "self-monitor."

Long-term business leases, accompanied with investments in

infrastructure and the legal rights to protect them, inevitably lead

to trouble for parks. Investors, eager to protect and expand their

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of interest in a system that is meant, first and foremost, to protect

ecosystems.

Murray told the Globe and Mail in July that B.C. park-goers are

spoiled, and described the province's parks as "a gold-mine that

could be extracting more money from users." She said she is

considering concession stands, restaurants, and overnight accommo-

dations in parks, referring to parks for their value in terms of

"capital" and "interest." She argues that parks are not presently

generating enough income to sustain themselves.

In fact, a WLAP report called "Economic Benefits of British

Columbia's Provincial Parks" (WLAP/PricewaterhouseCoopers,

September 2001) concludes that for every dollar spent on provincial

parks by the government, ten dollars in revenue is generated for

surrounding communities and businesses. The economic benefits of

the government's comparatively minor investment in parks provide

income crucial to the existence of local businesses and communities

around the province. These revenues only indirectly make their way

back into government coffers through tax revenue. What is really at

issue, then, is how much the government is willing to reinvest into

our park system, to keep the benefits flowing naturally.

Regardless, Murray's very language, in equating parks to a gold

mine to extract money shows a worrisome lack of understanding of

the true role of provincial parks in our society. Parks exist as a

refuge, where representative ecosystems are allowed to function

unimpeded by the pressures of human development. They exist also

as a sanctuary for people to reconnect with the natural world, away

from the commercialism, noise, and hectic pace of everyday life.

Murray paints the picture that any decisions to financially

support parks would come at the expense of healthcare and educa-

tion - a strange argument from a government prepared to invest

billions of dollars into attracting the one-time-only 2010 Winter

Olympics to Vancouver.

Our parks provide stable and long-term environmental, social,

and economic benefits to all British Columbians. This park system,

and the myriad values it represents, must be guarded vigilantly as a

invaluable legacy for posterity, and as the irreplaceable natural

treasure that it is.

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THE IMPORTANCEOF BC PARKS

Andrew Edgell, Age 16Port Albemi, BC

In British Columbia parks are important for

many reasons including heritage, solitude, beauty,

jobs, and sanctuaries for plants and animals. Parks

make up about 11.79% of the province and are

visited by about 90% of British Columbians at

some time, plus people from all over the world.

Some of the animals that are kept safe by the parks

are grizzly bears, woodland caribou, many sea-

birds, and the Vancouver Island marmot, which is

one of the most rare animals in North America. I

have been to where they live but I have never

actually seen one. Parks also provide recreational

activities such as hiking, rock climbing, sight

seeing, camping, and wildlife viewing.

For small communities parks can provide

many jobs. Park staff work to educate the public

and to ensure that the rules are followed in their

areas. They are a presence that is necessary so that

our parks remain for us all.

Every park has different beauty and soli-

tude to offer and a variety of plants and wildlife. I

think that the most important thing about BC parks

is that they protect the beauty so that future genera-

tions may also enjoy them. Without the protection

and sanctuary the parks provide, we would lose

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I have been to many parks with my parents

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year. We have camped in many parks and seen

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they were young. Now my parents have continued

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A "NATURAL" THREAT:BC's MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE

By Brian Bawtinheimer

Mountain pine beetle - throughout British Columbia, pine forestlands have been impacted by this tiny insect. We often think of thevast red and grey stands of trees across many areas of the province.As with other "natural" phenomena, the beetles have no knowledgeof administrative borders and are infesting trees within, and outsideof, protected areas with equal vigor.

Currently, the Ministry of Forests regards the mountain pine beetleinfestation as a key priority across the province. But what aboutprotected areas? How should we manage infestations within ourprovincial parks and in what manner?

These questions become complicated issues for protected areamanagers and even the infestations themselves spark debate. How"natural" is the current epidemic in the first place? We know thatmountain pine beetles are an endemic component of pine forests inB.C. and infestations have occurred in the past. Provide the rightconditions such as suitable host trees and warm winters, and beetlepopulations rise. When natural checks such as lack of suitable hosttrees and cold winters occur, populations fall. However, with acentury of fire suppression (fire being the natural renewal processfor pine forests) combined with global, warming (and therefore veryfew cold winters in the last decade), we may need to rethink thenotion that this current epidemic will slow anytime soon. We mustalso recognize that the current beetle situation did not originate inparks - beetle populations rise wherever conditions are right. Givena key conservation policy for protected areas is "letting naturalprocesses prevail", how should we view this current beetle situa-tion?

Most scientists agree that protected areas can not be managed inisolation of neighbouring lands - biodiversity values and distur-bance regimes rely on areas far in excess of most protected areaboundaries. So too must we recognize the cross-boundary implica-tions on social and economic values. With that in mind, parkmanagers recognize their role in assisting efforts to slow theprogression rate of the beetle infestation. Whether in Tweedsmuir,E.C. Manning, or any other of the many provincial parks currently

affected by mountain pine beetle, beetle management activities inparks are planned in coordination with the Ministry of Foreststreatment programs.

Actions in provincial parks take many forms including the use ofpheromone traps and burning of trap trees, fall and burn of infectedtrees, applying prescribed fire and, where treatments are not feasible,doing nothing at all. All options are considered against a set ofcriteria such as impacts to natural values and likelihood of success.While some have suggested commercial logging within parks, thisclearly affects our social and ecological values and the Provincecontinues to prohibit commercial logging in parks - a policy that issupported by much of the forest industry as well.

All "control" actions, however, can only slow the rate of expansionuntil a time when natural checks and balances can occur. Currentpriorities are to return natural processes and ecological function (suchas fire) to protected area ecosystems. But even this raises manage-ment challenges. For example, where fire suppression has occurred,fuel loads (abundance of dead wood and other fuels) and abnormallyhigh densities of trees create potential environments for catastrophicfire. Without some sort of manual fuel removal occurring prior,application of prescribed fire in these conditions is considered high-risk. Removing trees, however, raises debate among the public onwhether this is appropriate for protected areas.

Ecosystem function is a key goal for protected areas, however, thecomplex nature of beetle infestations and fire management createdifficult policy and management issues for park managers. Natural-ists in B.C. can assist the Parks and Protected Areas Branch byworking cooperatively with park staff and the public to raise aware-ness and find solutions for these tough policy issues. For moreinformation, please visit the Parks and Protected Areas web site at:http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/index.htm

Brian Bawtinheimer is the manager of Parks and Protected AreasConservation in Victoria. He can be reached by email at:brian.bawtinheimer@gems6.gov.bc.ca

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SPIPIYUS PROVINCIAL PARK *"<

The 3,000-hectare Spipiyus Provincial Park was one of 23 newProvincial Parks created by the NDP Government in 1998 follow-ing that government's Protected Areas Strategy initiative. Spipiyusis the local Sechelt Indian Band's name for the Marbled Murreletwhich was found breeding in the ancient forests of the CarenRange above Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. The new parkhas another significant attribute. It is documented as Canada'soldest closed-canopy temperate rain forest.

Spipiyus Park exists because of the dedicated work of the localgroup, Friends of Caren. This group found Canada's first activenest of the threatened Marbled Murrelet, they spent countless hoursin taking more than 3,500 visitors to see the proposed park area,and they carried out the necessary work to prove that these forestscontained Canada's oldest trees.

Here is an extraordinary new park where there is an opportunityof expanding the boundaries down to Sechelt Inlet and PenderHarbour's lake district to allow its shore-to-summit ecosystem toflourish. Doubling its size to 6000 hectares, the original proposal,as a minimum would allow for this park to be sustainable. Most ofthe birds and animals found in the park are marine based and needforested corridors for unobstructed access in both directions. MewGulls, Barrows Goldeneyes and Marbled Murrelets nest close tothe many lakes and in the ancient forests. River Otters, BlackBears, Cougar and Roosevelt Elk, to name just a few species, maketheir way to the uplands in summer and demand unimpeded accessfrom the marine shores to the Caren Range summit. Bald Eagles,Ospreys and Belted Kingfishers can be seen regularly around the

upland lakes. The forests themselves contain groves of the oldestliving Yellow Cedars, Mountain and Western Hemlocks in theworld.

At present the Forest Service road connecting the park toHighway 101 on the Sunshine Coast is under repair and access,except for the sturdiest vehicles, is very difficult. This is a mixedblessing until such time as a Plan is drawn up for the park betweenthe Ministry of Water, Lands and Parks and Friends of Caren. Inthe new Plan there will be a need to focus on sustainability,connectivity and a shore-to-summit ecosystem. The Plan will alsoneed to address some of the problems that confront the new park.These include the damage being done by Roosevelt Elk whichhave expanded their range into the park since some of the hugeclear-cuts surrounding the ancient forests, and now included in thepark, have begun to green up with new growth of sub-alpinespecies and their preferred food, fireweed. Elk appear also to beseeking the cooler summer temperatures of the Caren's higheraltitudes. Wind is causing some damage as it blows down trees,dries out the forest and makes the old-growth areas susceptible tofire. There appears to be a real need for a continuous presence ofwardens in the park during summer months to ensure that itsfragile nature is understood and respected by any and all parkvisitors.

With so many attributes, Spipiyus Provincial Park deservesgreater recognition and an immediate start on the planning processwith the chief advocates, Friends of Caren, the group that broughtit into being.

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Parks in BC

The Bugaboo Rainforest ParkAndrea Reimer

Western Canada Wilderness Committee

British Columbia (BC), Washington (WA), Idaho (ID), and Montana(MT) have the world's only temperate inland rainforest. Inlandrainforests are confined to one mountain range, the ColumbiaMountains, located approximately 600km inland in a narrow north-southoriented belt 800 km in length and 100-200 km in width. Key areas of the Inlandrainforests need immediate protection.Inland rainforests are located in theInland Cedar Hemlock (ICH)biogeoclimatic Zone (ICH).

The proposed Bugaboo Rainforest Parkwould link 1.2 million ha of protectedareas from Golden to Revelstoke andsouth to Nelson, The Bugaboo is locatedin the geographic centre of a beltcomprising the wettest and largest treedinland rainforest.

Most rainforest parks consist predomi-nantly of mountain tops and lowerquality high elevation forest. Mountaintop forests, rock and ice generally have low biological diversity, arenot important to extractive resource industries, are abundant, andgenerally not in immediate need of park protection. Valley bottomshowever, have high biological diversity, which causes them to be ofreal interest to extractive resource industries, are rare, and aredramatically under-represented in parks.

Lack of representation of old growth valley bottoms in parks, andlack of connection between parks, is the principle cause of wildlifedecline and extirpation (local extinction). Fifty-two species ofmammals have recently disappeared from western North Americanparks principally because of the lack of inter-connection betweenparks.

Only 10 mountain caribou and five wolverine remain in the GlacierPark complex. Scientists at Glacier Park speculate that mountaincaribou will be extinct in south-eastern BC in less than 20 years. It isclear that existing parks cannot sustain certain wildlife populations.

Inland rainforests occur in two distinct varieties: those with giantrainforest trees in the valley bottoms, and those referred to as

"snowforests" which occur at higher elevations and innorthern areas. Big treed inland rainforestsin valley bottoms are defined by thepresence of, in varying degrees of abun-dance, western red cedar and westernhemlock.

The wettest and hence biggest treed inlandrainforests (ICHwk and ICHvk) are located

\y in BC, in a narrow 50-75 km widestrip within the larger rainforest zone andare a product of very specific climaticconditions. This rainforest is located insouth-eastern BC between the RobsonValley near McBride and Duncan Lakenear Golden. No existing parks in theinland rainforest zone protect appreciablequantities of big tree rainforest. GlacierNational Park, located in the geographiccentre of the wettest inland rainforest andin an area with the highest concentration of

intact valleys, was created specifically to protect mountain tops, notbig treed low elevation rainforest.

There are presently no parks that protect these critical areas of largetreed, inland rainforest. At the moment the four primary rainforestparks in the Bugaboo region, Glacier and Mt, Revelstoke NationalParks, Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, and Goat Range ProvincialPark are quite isolated from each other. As a result the parksthemselves and the many species they represent are under extremeduress.

Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Valhalla WildernessSociety, and many members in the Inland Rainforest WorkingGroup, and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative arespearheading the protection of the Bugaboo and are developing aconservation area vision map for this priceless Inland rainforest.

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Parks in BC

Protecting Canada's Marine Heritagel$y Alison ManleyParks Canada, Coastal BC300-300 West Georgia St.,Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B4

In June 2002, something special happened to Canada's oceans: theCanada National Marine Conservation Areas Act was passed. Portionsof Canada's many and diverse marine ecosystems can be effectivelyprotected, and the nation's marine heritage celebrated and sustained in away never before possible.

National Marine Conservation Areas (NMCAs) will be created andmanaged by the Parks Canada Agency - adding a new dimension to aworld-renowned system of national parks and national historic sites.Fisheries and Oceans Canada will continue to take the lead in fisheriesmanagement within NMCAs.

Although the National Parks Act did allow for the establishment of"National Marine Parks", that legislation was developed primarily tomanage and control terrestrial parks, and was poorly suited to adminis-ter protected areas in the marine environment. Thus the need forspecific legislation to establish and manage NMCAs.

Presendy, the only fully established NMCA in the system is Saguenay-St-Lawrence Marine Park in Quebec, which was created under speciallegislation. Parks Canada also manages one other site, Fathom Five inOntario, though it is not yet under legislation.

National Marine Conservation Areas are designed to balance protectionand ecologically sustainable use. They provide opportunities forscientific research and monitoring, and for people to learn about andenjoy marine ecosystems. In addition to protecting and conservinghealthy marine ecosystems, they also protect Canada's marine culturalheritage.

Each National Marine Conservation Area will be established andmanaged based on extensive input from coastal communities, FirstNations, stakeholders and the public. These protected areas will not, andcannot, be created without public support.

NMCAs will be divided into zones, with at least one of the zonesoffering full protection for endangered species, sensitive habitats,special features or cultural sites. Sustainable commercial harvesting willbe allowed. Non-renewable resource exploration and extraction will not.

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Parks Canada has defined 29 marine regions in our three surround-ing oceans and the Great Lakes. The objective is to have eachregion represented by a National Marine Conservation Area. ParksCanada is close to finalizing a federal-provincial agreement toestablish the newest National Marine Conservation Area in LakeSuperior.

Five regions are located on the West Coast: the Strait of Georgia,Vancouver Island Shelf, Queen Charlotte Sound Hecate Strait, andQueen Charlotte Shelf. Some steps have already been takentowards establishing NMCAs in British Columbia. In the Strait ofGeorgia, the Pacific Marine Heritage Legacy, an initiative of thegovernments of Canada and British Columbia, has provided thefoundation from which to launch a study to assess the feasibility ofestablishing an NMCA in the southern Strait of Georgia.

On the central coast, Parks Canada has been an active participant inthe Central Coast Land and Coastal Resource Management Plan(CCLCRMP) process. Following scientific study, Parks Canadasubmitted four areas of interest in this region to the CCLCRMPtable: Blackfish Sound, Queen Charlotte Strait, Goose Island Bankand Laredo Sound. Any subsequent NMCA feasibility study wouldconsider only one of these areas and take into account the results ofthe CCLCRMP process.

The proposed Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation AreaReserve would represent the Hecate Strait and Queen CharlotteShelf marine regions and could be the first NMCA to be establishedin BC. If this NMCA is established, it will be the only place inCanada and one of the only places in the world where a representa-tive area is protected from mountain top to sea bed - a treasure inCanada's collection of special places.

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} Parks in BCWhat is the FBCN insurance and what does it do for me?

by Jeremy McCallFBCN President

One of the questions most frequently asked by FBCN membersconcerns the FBCN insurance scheme and what it does for them. Inthis article I will try to describe the role it plays in our overallprotection against potentially costly lawsuits resulting from accidentson field trips, camps or work parties.

An accident can happen in a number of ways. It may result froman insufficiently experienced field trip leader being authorized to leada trip, from a field trip leader taking a wrong and dangerous routedue to inadequate reconnaissance, or even from one member of aparty kicking a rock down on another. Whether you are a clubdirector, a trip leader or merely a participant in a field trip, there isalways the possibility that you as well as your club could be heldresponsible for causing an accident which might have significantconsequences for one of your fellow members, companions or amember of the public who is participating in the event. Any one ofyou could be sued for causing physical damage, consequent loss oflivelihood or property damage.

The first point to be made is that liability insurance is just oneline of defence and it is in fact the line of last resort. The first defenceagainst problems arising on field trips, camps or work partiesauthorized by naturalist clubs is to avoid any possibility of negli-gence. This means that activities should be properly planned,responsibly organized and conducted by competent members,employees or designated volunteers who are authorized to do so bythe directors of their club. It is vital to be able to show, to thesatisfaction of a court if necessary, that no negligence was involvedby any of the individuals responsible for making the necessarydecisions.

The second line of defence is the waiver form. This is sometimedescribed as a Registration and Waiver Form by some clubs, whichalso use it to record the names of participants in the trip, nature touror camp. The participants who sign it are effectively waiving theirright to sue the club, its directors and officers and any other mem-bers, employees or volunteers responsible for organizing the outing.Signing the waiver is voluntary but if they don't sign they don't getto go on the trip. Waivers are legitimate legal instruments and,provided they are worded effectively, they frequently hold up incourt. A judge is not likely to have a lot of sympathy for someonefiling a lawsuit if they have signed an agreement that they did notintend to do so.

The insurance comes into play when and if the first two lines ofdefence fail, perhaps because one of the decision makers can beshown to have acted negligently. In this event the FBCN's insurancescheme provides liability insurance of up to $5 million per occur-rence for claims related to bodily injury or property damage, whensuch claims are made against the club, or one or more of its directors,officers, members, designated volunteers and employees.

The FBCN scheme also provides insurance of up to $2 millionfor claims made against directors and officers of clubs arising fromerrors and omissions made by them. It would be unfair to expectmembers to serve in these positions of responsibility without makingsure they have this type of protection.

Whenever a claim is made against the club or one of the partieslisted above, our insurance company is likely to get involved at anearly stage to protect its interests. One of the first questions it willask is whether the activity in question was covered by the policy.The stated activities in the FBCN policy are generally described as"hiking and birdwatching". Although these could be interpretedfairly broadly it is not until an actual claim is made that this descrip-tion will be put to the test. Some more risky activities which do notfall clearly within the above definition, even if organized by the club,are unlikely to qualify and we have been advised that cycling, as oneexample, would not be included.

Secondly the insurer will make sure that the activity wassanctioned by the club. The word "sanctioned" means that the clubmust in some way have approved of the activity in question, eitherby publicizing it as a club sponsored event or because the organizerroutinely organizes activities of that type. Finally the insurer willcheck to see whether the persons against whom the claim is beingmade were in fact members in good standing at the time of theoccurrence (or properly designated if they were volunteers ratherthan members).

It is important to emphasize that the FBCN insurance is liabilityinsurance only. It is not a substitute for or a supplement to yourregular medical or accident coverage, whether inside or outsideCanada, for which you are individually responsible. The FBCNliability insurance premium, which now amounts to a little morethan $2 a year for each individual member or member family, is abargain. We can all sleep a little easier with this protection in place!

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FBCN Book Review

Lewis Clark's Field Guide to Wild Flowersof Field and Slope in the PacificNorthwest, written and photographed by Lewis J.Clark, edited by John Trelawny. (HarbourPublishing, Madeira Park, B.C., 2002). 80pp.

This is essentially a reissue of the secondof the six popular Lewis Clark field guides, whichfollowed publication of Clark's splendid 1973one-volume Wild Flowers of British Columbia. Itis to be hoped that Harbour Publishing's intentionis to reissue all six. With Clark's excellentphotographs of the flowers of over six hundred ofthe more showy species of herbs and shrubs in theregion, and succinct descriptions of even more,these six guides can be useful to beginning andmore experienced amateur botanists alike.Having stitched binding, they should besatisfactorily robust.

The original of the present field guide,published in 1974, was the last guide completedby Lewis Clark before his death. The remainingfour were completed by John Trelawny, and hehas now edited this reissue. The editorial changesin the new edition consist mainly in the updatingof the botanical names, many of which havechanged since 1974, and adjustments to thepresentation of the photographs. While theauthority is not given, most, though not all, thebotanical names of those plants found in B.C. nowagree with Douglas, Meidinger, and Pojar'sIllustrated Flora of British Columbia currentlybeing published (1998-2002).

Happily, Clark's selection of an Englishcommon name for each plant has been retained.While few people, including this reviewer, woulddream of giving up a common name they havegrown up with, and we do need listings of themultiple names in use, as in Douglas et al., or inHitchcock and Cronquist, the preferred choices ofknowledgeable and thoughtful amateurs such asLewis Clark, or C. P. Lyons, are always worth

having. One says thoughtful amateurshere since, for professionals, common names, asdistinct from botanical names, really have noexistence.

The photographs are mostly the sameones as before, but some are adjusted for scale, orfor colour reproduction, or are croppeddifferently. Sometimes this is definiteimprovement; Lychnis alba now looks white, as itshould do, rather than green! On the other hand,there may be a trade off.; for Ranunculusoccidentals the cropping means that the leavesare no longer visible. Unfortunately, in myopinion, the publishers have picture-framed thephotographs and text in a twee 19th centurymanner which scarcely respects the realexcellence of both.

One regret in the new edition is that theopportunity has not been taken to add the namesof the botanical families to which the speciesbelong — a surprising omission in the originalguides, given that perhaps the first desirableaccomplishment for an amateur botanist is torecognize families, and that the presentation is infact organized by families (Englerian order). But,all in all, this new edition is greatly to bewelcomed.

JohnCoope, V.N.H.S.

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

It's all about parks, protected areas, fish and wildlife in BritishColumbia. And it's all about recreation of all types in our parks andprotected areas. "It", in this case, is the Recreation Stewardship Paneland as has been rightly said it's the only game in town at the moment.On August 22 and 23 the FBCN participated in the Panel's OptionsWorkshop and I would like to share my thoughts about this processand suggest how you can all both contribute to it and influence itsoutcome.

The Panel, which was set up by Minister of Water Land and AirProtection Joyce Murray in early May, has been strongly criticized. Ithas been suggested that it is a smokescreen because the governmenthas already made up its mind as to what it is going to do about parksand recreation and has in fact already taken steps to cut funding andstaff and close down some facilities in the park system. It's true thatthe first phase of cuts has already taken place and the government isalready requesting proposals from park facilities operators for freshfacilities in parks. However, if one can get past the Panel's dysfunc-tional title (surely habitat needs stewardship but not recreation!) itdoes have some potential for making sound recommendations toMinister Murray for rationalizing the administration of our parks, fishand wildlife systems and for improving their economics.

First, there can be no question about the experience, dedicationand good intentions of the members of the Panel. As a group they arewell qualified to fulfill their mandate and they appear to be genuinelyconcerned to bring about a sensitive and constructive outcome. Thechair, Bruce Strachan, is himself a former BC minister of theenvironment. He is firmly convinced that Minister Murray and hercabinet colleagues will give serious consideration to the finalrecommendations the Panel must make by November 29. The Panelhas also been criticized for not allowing more public consultation.The timeline laid on the Panel is very short - draft recommendationsare required by September 13 - so this makes extensive publicconsultation difficult, but Mr Strachan has promised that the Panelwill accept public input when the draft recommendations arepublished. Meanwhile the Panel has extensively consulted represen-tatives of most province-wide organizations concerned with outdoorrecreation in parks and protected areas as well as with fish andwildlife.

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It is also important to note the direction the Panel appears to beheading. It is being strongly guided by the intent of the Park Act andthe conclusions of the 1999 Final Report of the Parks LegacyProject, which resulted from extensive public consultation. ThePanel has developed a set of 17 working Principles which appear togenerally respect those conclusions while at the same time respond-ing to its mandate. These Principles have already been approved bythe Cabinet as a basis for the Panel's work. As an example, the firstprinciple declares that the province has a fundamental obligation toconserve and protect wildlife, fish and protected areas in BC andthat this will guide the development and management of recreationopportunities. The full set of Principles can be viewed on the Panel'swebsite at www.praxis.ca/recpanel

I cannot go into detail about the extensive advice the Panelreceived during the Workshop. A transcript of the proceedings canbe seen on our website and the draft recommendations will beposted after September 16th. The FBCN will also be making awritten submission to emphasize that our parks, fishery and wildlifeare the jewel in the crown of Supernatural British Columbia and it isin the best interests of us all for the government to start adopting

adopting strategies and policies which embellish that image ratherthan eroding it. But we cannot rely on the Panel alone. I urge eachand every one of you to review its draft recommendations in mid-September and to write to the Panel, to the Premier, Minister Murrayand your local MLA to support the recommendations you agree withand to criticize those that you disagree with, and to give yourreasons. The impact of all those thousands of letters on both thePanel and the politicians could be phenomenal! I cannot think of amore powerful way to make the Panel work for the FBCN'sobjectives.

In closing, on behalf of all our members I extend our greatsympathy to Anne Savenye and her family for the tragic loss ofRene, an amazing husband, father and brother as well as an extraor-dinary naturalist and outdoorsman. It is a loss we all feel greatly. Indue course the FBCN will take appropriate steps to commemorateRene's memory. Meanwhile I look forward to seeing many of you atthe Whistler Conference and Meeting on September 20.

By Jeremy McCall

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FBCN FouNcmioNREPORT

FBCN Foundation endowment fund is managed in the AgencyEndowment Fund of the Vancouver Foundation. All the agencieswere invited to an Appreciation Breakfast last June, and we hadthe opportunity to hear an inspiring presentation about raisingfunds for charitable purposes.

Terry Axelrod, from Seattle, is the founder of Raising MoreMoney, and she spent over an hour taking us through her programto develop lifelong donors to charitable organisations. Shedescribed how she has raised millions of dollars for a privateschool for underprivileged Seattle children that lacked even basicequipment. Although most of her other examples were from thehealth and education fields, many of the principles of her programcan be used by FBCN Foundation to help us raise funds forFBCN and FBCN club projects.

While FBCN doesn't have a specific building or program that wecan promote, we do have our love of nature, our knowledge aboutthe natural world, our concern for rare and endangered species,our interests in stewardship, our desire to educate. All elementsthat can be used to encourage people to become lifelong donors toour cause.

One of the telling points in Terry's presentation came when shetold us that a woman who had been on a tour of her school offeredto raise money for ballet lessons. She hadn't been informed of thebasic needs of the school - for pens, paper, text books, all thethings other school children take for granted. With a few phonecalls to the right people the woman raised untold basic "riches"for the children in a very short time.

What are the needs of FBCN and FBCN clubs? What is reallyneeded to help FBCN go forward as a respected conservationorganization? - as your foundation we need to know before wecan go out and ask people to make a donation or bequest to ourcause. Think about it, discuss it at your club meetings, and letyour FBCN Directors know. They can pass the ideas on to usthrough your Regional or FBCN meetings. And we can build abetter program to attract lifelong donors to FBCN Foundation.

If you want to know more about FBCN Foundation, check out ourwebsite link from the FBCN website at www.naturalists.bc.ca, orcall one of our Directors:

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CONSERVATION REPORTConservation Report - August 2002

This is a short report. Its summer, and there's very little goodnews to report. So enjoy the outdoors, but take an hour or two,and visit or write your local MLA. Voice your concerns, muchthe same as was outlined in the last BC Naturalist. Sorry to berepetitive, but its really important for us, the people of BC, tomake sure our elective representatives understand how concernedwe are about:1. Cutbacks to staffing and funding in Parks, Wildlife, Fisheries

and Habitat Programs and in the Forest Service2. Complete cut of Parks nature interpretation and education

services3. Complete closure of Forest Service Recreation Sites and

dismantling of Forest Service recreation program4. Closures of some Provincial Parks and facilities5. Steps to lease out or sell Crown land without adequate public

discussion or without adequate science based information onimpacts on natural environment.

Some letters to the editor and talk shows are covering this, sokeep the pressure on.

Save Forest Recreation is a coalition formed out of Cranbrook,and includes the Rocky Mountain Naturalists. It's growing fastand you can sign on, or contact them, at<saveforestrecreation@shaw.ca> There is a web site providedby the Earth Care Society of Kelowna. View at http://www.earthcares.org

Finally, take the time to write a personal letter, again, to thePremier of BC to express your support for the 71,400 hectareSpruce Lake (Southern Chilcotin Mountains) Provincial Park.Cabinet has delayed their decision on this until September, soyour letter would be most timely.

- Bev Ramey

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Letters:

Prime Minister J.Chretien-Columbia River Wetlands-Regulations toManage Vessels

Chair R. Hobson Environm. Committee Union of BC Municip. -PestiddeUse in Urban Areas

Jun-07 National Round Table Environm. Ecoromy-Indicators of EconomicHealth

Jun-07 Premier G. Campbell-Staffing for Parks Wildlife, Fisheries, Habitat&Forestry

Jun-07 D. Andersen Minister of Environment-Fraser River Debris Trap

Jun-07 Stan Hagen-Minister of Sustainable Resource Manag. - Fraser River. Debris Trap

Jun-07 Ron MacDonald, Pres. Council of Forest Industries-Fraser River DebrisTrap

Jun-07 Joyce Murray, Minister of Water, Land.-Snowmobiling in ProvincialParks

Jun-07 Stan Hagen-Minister of Sustainable Resource Manag. -Mandatorylicensing All-Terrain Vehicles

Jun-07 Prime Minister J.Chretien-Manag. Of the Fraser River from Hope to theSea

Jul-19 Dave Bacon, Commercial Recreation MgLand& Water BC-Tyax AirService Ltd Proposal

Aug-12 Stan Hagen-Minister of Sustainable Resource Mang.- Crown LandLeases

Date Responses from:

Jun-10 From Minister Stan Hagen -Re: Crown Land on the Southern GulfIslands

Jun-14 From Cattlermole Timber-Re: Logging in the Elk Creek drainage

Jun-17 From Prime Minister's Office acknowledging our letter on Eraser River

Jul-23 From Office of Minister of Transr^

Jul-23 from Minister Stan Hagen re: Fraser River Debris Trap

Aug-06 From Minister Stan Hagen Re: Licensing of all terrain vehicles (ATVs)

Aug-12 From Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Re: Columbia River Wetlands

Aug-16 From Minister Stan Hagen re: Crown Land on the Southern Goulf Island

Attended Meetings:

Aug 22 & 23 Recreation Stewardship Panel

Questions regarding these issues should be directed to Maria Hamann at theFBCN office. Maria will direct your questions to an appropriate individualand she can also supply copies of the letters referred to if required.

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Memoriam

Rene was born in Holland and came to Canada as a youngster. He grew up in and around NewWesminster. He graduated from UBC with Bachelor of Science degree and went on to become a teaPrincess Margaret Secondary School where he taught for 31 years (without missing a day!). Whileattending UBC, Rene met Anne Johnson who he married in 1962. They had three sons, Mike, Paul andEd. Rene was a family man and enjoyed taking his family on outdoor excursions.

Always passionate no matter what he took on, he became a better than average marathoner and competedin several in the 80's before pursuing his real outdoor love, hiking. He combined his love of hiking withother outdoor interests, botany, especially native plants, fossils and mushrooms. He was recognized asan expert in those disciplines and was exceedingly well informed in all matters relating to naturalhistory. While fossil hunting in the Merritt area, Rene came upon the find of his life; a fossilized bee.1 i. i i »/-» • ^ / .« i«. _ i _i w« _ i _ _« ..i_ _ r_ «i A _ «• .. _ » - i . _ ._ »i. • »j_.

has been suggested that Rene will be honoured by the naming of the fossil as "savenyensis.

Always eager to contribute he was involved with the North Shore Hikers, Vancouver Natural HistorySociety, Valley Outdoor Club, Surrey Green Timbers Forest advisory committee and the Geological Surveyof Canada. And, he was the energetic, enthusiastic President of the White Rock and Surrey Naturalists.He was the consummate teacher exhibiting uncommon patience and enthusiasm while explaining themarvels of nature. He will be sorely missed.

Rene was taken by lightning while hiking and fossil hunting on Mount Fair view near Lake Louise. He issurvived by his wife Anne of 40 years, son Mike (Marilyn), son Ed, his mother Vera, sister Carla Evens,brother Jack (Donna), Frank (Dianna) and numerous nephews and nieces. He is predeceased by hisfather Fred and son Paul (Vera).

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Club ChatCompiled by Bonita K. Lingenfelter

Arrowsmith Naturalist Newsletter reports that, thanks to the peoplewho volunteered to help, Rathtrevor Nature House was open seven daysa week throughout July and August. Club members also participated Inthe BrantFestivar;ana enjoyed leading members of the OceansideYoungNaturalists' Club on field trips.

Kamloops Naturalist Club letter reports the first recorded nesting inBC of Black Necked Stilts. The birds chose T'Kamloops Marsh fortheir debut. Various club members kept the birds under close observa-tion throughout the breeding season, and photos were taken of them,and their clutch of four eggs.

Langley Field Naturalists club members continue to help raise andrelease the Purple Loosestrife-eating beetle, Galerucella calmariensis.Last year 60 pairs of the little insect produced 2,800 beetles. The goal ofthe program is to establish permanent populations that will eventuallykeep the invasive weed in check.

Prince George Naturalist's Club members, with financial assistancefrom TO Friends of the Environment Fund, have completed the 2002Prince George Bird Check List. Members receive the checklist whenthey pay their dues, and the public may purchase a copy for a nominalfee.

Salt Spring Trail and Nature Club members are dedicated to helpSalt Spring Island Conservancy raise money for the acquisition of aparcel of land that" ...could contribute to the permanent protection of alarge, continuos greenspace of about 490 acres (195 ha), as well as animportant leg of an extended trail network throughout the Mt. Erskinearea".

South Okanagan Naturalists' newsletter reminds us that a beautifulgarden can provide food and cover for many different species. Mem-bers are urged to keep wildlife habitat in mind when selecting plantings,and to eliminate the use of pesticides

The Victoria Naturalist History Society has been awarded a grant of$5,000 towards providing interpretive signage highlighting the naturalheritage of the Esquimalt Lagoon Stewardship Initiative. The lagoon isa federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

White Rock & Surrey Naturalist members' commitment to helpingkeep the environment clean is reflected in their volunteer work. Theytake part in three projects: Adopt-A-Street, Pitch-In-Canada beach clean-up, and the Campbell Valley Wildlife Garden Clean-up. In appreciationof their efforts, Surrey Parks has arranged to redo the cover of theirremaining 25th Anniversarybooks, as well as the rebinding.

Willaims Lake Field Naturalists Club offered more than 35- Discov-ering Nature programs for children during the summer months.

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The Federation of BritishColumbia Naturalists

Federation of BC Naturalists

The Federation of British Columbia Naturalistsis an umbrella organization for more than 50 nat-uralist clubs province-wide, representing over5,300 members. We are bird watchers, botanists,hikers, campers and outdoor enthusiasts who arejoined together by our enjoyment and concernfor British Columbia's natural history.

Our goals:« Promote the enjoyment and understanding

of nature• Act as advocate for conservation and pro-tec tion of biodiversity and eco-systems• Support & encourage natural history clubs

inBC• Operate in a professional and well-organ-ised manner

The FBCN is located at 425 1367 West Broad-way, Vancouver, BC V6H 4A9. Office hours 9:00am - 5:00 pm Monday-Friday. Please call beforevisions to assure office is opentel: 604-737-3057email: fbcn@intergate.bc.cafax: 604-738-7173web: http://members.nbci.com/fbcn/

JOIN THE FBCN !If you enjoy birdwatching, hiking, camping or photographingwildlife, and want to connect with other nature lovers, then weinvite you to become a member of the Federation of BCNaturalists.

THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO JOIN:

1. Join Your Local Naturalist ClubWe invite you to contact your local club to find out when their next event is and join us at one ofour many activities. You'll meet other nature lovers and enjoy all these benefits :• learn about nature in your community from local experts

• enjoy birding,, hiking,, botanizing,, camps and outdoor field trips

• participate in local conservation projects such as restoring marshes andalpine areas, removing invasive plants, installing and monitoring bird boxes,building trails, maintaining nature centres

• hear great guest speakers/see slide shows

• receive the local club newsletter (if published)

• contribute to club projects like bird and plant checklists, trail guides, naturebooks

• have opportunities to get involved in park and land stewardship

• support people working to protect nature in your community

• act locally, while thinking globally

• enjoy all the benefits of FBCN Direct Membership (listed below)

2. Become a Direct MemberIf there isn't a Federated club in your community then join the FBCN as a Direct Member. It'sonly $ 15 a year and you receive all these benefits :• receive the newsletter BC Naturalist four times a year. Discover BC's

natural areas and wildlife and get information on environmental issues andevents

• benefit with a reduced subscription price to Cordillera, the Federation's in-depth journal of natural history

• attend FBCN exploratory and club camps and learn about BC's wild heritagefrom expert naturalists

• attend FBCN member meetings and learn about other parts of the province

• support the Federation in its conservation efforts to protect endangeredspecies and natural areas

• receive discounts on special fund-raising items such as CD's, books, cards

• borrow resource materials from the FBCN office.

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Upcoming EventsCALLING ALL GROUPS! We want to hear about your eventsuch as shoreline clean-ups, fair days, scavenger hunts, hikes, etcWe will recognize your group's commitment, or the commitment ofall individuals, by making you a Shoreline Ambassador (SA) andissuing SA certificates. An added bonus: we will have draws for ournew handbook, '"'On The Living Edge'"' from among those whobecome SA's!

CAPS TAKES OFF!We launched our "Community-based Action Program for Shore-lines" (CAPS is less of a mouthful!) in June this year when CliveCallaway visited Moberly Lake. Over the next 2 years we'llcontinue to partner with local groups to hold Shoreline InformationSessions for visitors and residents, give conservation actionmarketing clinics, train shoreline homesite assessors and givecustomized presentations about shorelines to realtors, municipalcouncillors and others in your community. We'll also be helpingcommunity based groups templates for putting on shoreline events,marketing programs, making funding applications, offering ourWorkshop-in-a-Box, and much more. There are still openings for2003, so if you're interested in helping make your group moreeffective, call Jaci at our BC/Yukon office 250-832-7405,or email jacim@jetstream.net.

VERNON CREEK CLEANUP & BC RIVERS DAY EVENTCommunity groups in the North Okanagan are gearing up to invitethe public to two great family events this September to celebrate theKokanee spawning in Lower Vemon Creek and BC Rivers Day thisyear. The first event, called "Klean-Up for Kokanee" is a creekgarbage cleanup day to which over 300 area elementary schoolstudents and teachers have already registered for. Volunteers fromthe public are also invited to this Friday, September 6th event, andare asked to register for their section of the creek by contactingMichelle Boshard at 250-707-0095 or stewardship@sylix.org.Volunteers will receive their LbyW Shoreline Ambassador'scertificate when they participate. There will be contests for weirdestthing pulled from the creek and best decorated gloves and boots! Atthe event, a challenge for "Best Creek Memory" contest will beissued and selected submissions will be shared at the subsequentevent."Vernon Rivers Day" is the second event, a family tun and publicawareness day targeted for Poison Park near downtown Vemon.Booths and displays, hands on activities, games and even theatre areplanned. There's no formal registration, except for those who wouldlike to set up a free information booth with information on water-shed or environmental issues. Call Michelle Boshard at 250-707-0095 or stewardship@sylix.org. Come on down and check it out!

COLUMBIA SWIMMER TO DO INTERNATIONAL SWIMAT OSOYOOS LAKEChristopher Swain, the man currently swirnming the entire Colum-bia River, will participate in the October 17-21st "InternationalOkanagan River Salmon Festivals" being hosted in partnership bythe Okanagan Nation Fisheries Commission, the OkanaganSimilkameen Fisheries Boundary Partnership (OSBFP), the USUpper Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups andColville Confederated Tribes. During the Festival, Chris will take abreak from swimming for several speaking engagements, includingschool and public events, as well as riding along on the ONFCInternational Habitat bus tour. On October 19th, Chris will "gojump in the lake" and swim, escorted by canoes, across theCanada-US Border down to Orville where a sister-festival will beheld in the US. Contact Michelle Boshard, 250-707-0095 orstewardship@sylix.org , for more details.

SALTSPRING ISLAND SERIESSept. 14th: LAKE WALK AND TALK with Briony Penn; geogra-pher, naturalist, and educator, and John Sprague; Biologist special-izing in Water Pollution and Toxicology. Saturday, 9:30am-lpm.Oct: (TBA) FOREST WALK AND TALK with Robin Annschild;Biologist specializing in habitat restoration. Saturday, 9:30am-lpm.Please pre-register with the Salt Spring Island Conservancy office;phone 538-0318, fax 538-0319, or e-mail:ssiconservancy@saltspring.com Rain or Shine. All groups willmeet in the Artspring Parking Lot to carpool. Bring a lunch.

SHORELINE CLEANUP NEWSThe 2002 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup will run September14th to 22nd on shorelines near you. It is not too late to register yourgroup for this conservation initiative. Groups of all sizes and agesare welcome. If you are interested contact the VancouverAquarium's Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Coordinator at 604 -659-3506 or shorelinecleanup@vanaqua.org. As of July 3rd, 2002the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup has registered over5,000 participants, this exceeds the 2001 total of 4,763 volunteers.This is a phenomenal start to the 2002 cleanup, on the way to thegoal of 6,000 participants this year. As with last year, eligibleparticipants will receive a LbyW Shoreline Ambassador certificate.In the Okanagan, the OSBFP and Selah Outdoor Discoveries arepartnering on a special half-day trip that will to take several 10-person canoes on Okanagan Lake to clean up garbage on theshoreline. The canoe ride is scheduled to leave Peachland forOkanagan Lake Mountain Park, where a surprising amount ofgarbage has been found in previous years. There is still limitedseating for this volunteer event; please register with MichelleBoshard at 250-707-0095 or by email at stewardship@syilx.orgFirst come, first served.

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE - The Leading Edge: Stewardshipand Conservation in Canada - TO BE HELD IN BC IN JUNE 2003The 2003 conference will provide a variety of opportunities forstructured and informal discussions aimed at furthering the role ofstewardship and conservation in protecting our natural and culturalheritage in Canada.The four major themes for the 2003 conferenceare Strategic Directions; Organizational Advancement; ProgramTools; and Legal, Economic and Policy Tools. The conference willdiscuss the priorities for conservation of biodiversity and speciesprotection, the needs of communities, the needs of conservationgroups, the need for long term sustainability of stewardship efforts,the perspectives of landowners who have entered into stewardshipand conservation initiatives, tools available, best practices to ensurebest value for effort, and opportunities to solve problems and planfor the future — The Big Picture and How It is Being Delivered onthe Ground. Sheila Harrington of the Land Trust Alliance of BritishColumbia would tike to work with other interested individuals fromacross the country in organizing a high quality conference that willattract a wide variety of people and organizations involved instewardship and conservation . If you'd like to help, you can reachher at 250-538-0112 or nfo@landtrustaUiance.bc.ca

BC RIVERS DAYBC Rivers Day is fast approaching and it is time to start planningyour event for Sunday, September 29! BC Rivers Day offers us agreat opportunity to raise awareness across our province as to howimportant good river stewardship is. ORC will be offering anumber of challenges to event organizers to encourage participationand event diversity. Challenges include:-The most events held in one community-The smallest communitywith the biggest event (most partidpants)-The most creative event-The most informative event-The most successful cleanup (accord-ing to mass of debris removed)-The event that involves the mostyouth in planning and participation-The event that best links a landbased outdoor recreation activity and rivers.To register an event or for more information, see our website,www.orcbc.ca.For an info package with a registration form andposters, please email, Jennifer Grenz, Projects Coordinatororcbc@intergate.ca.

WATER, WASTE NOT, WANT NOTThe theme of the 10th annual Inter-American Water Day on October5 is "Water, Waste Not, Want Not" focussing on promoting theproper use of water to support good health. To those of us who haveno problems with water supply, its inherent scarcity may seem hardto understand. Even though we live in a world that is more thantwo-thirds covered with water, less than 3 % is fresh water suitablefor human consumption, and only 1% of that is surface water easily

available. It is critically important for us to treat water as the scarcecommodity that it is, and to recognize that we must conserve waterand acknowledge its true worth—in economic, ecological andhealth terms. In so doing, we will help to ensure an ample and safesupply of water—both for this generation and for future genera-tions. Visit the Initiative's web page, located at the Pan AmericanCenter for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences(CEPIS) site: http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org Of you wish toparticipate please visit: http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org/bvsadiaaAi/grupos/apen-2-2001 .pdf

NoticesSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES WORKING TOGETHERThe Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit will helpschools and communities develop a process for creating locallyrelevant and culturally appropriate education. This Toolkit is basedon the idea that communities and educational systems can reinforcelocal sustainability goals s by helping local educational systemsreorient existing curriculums. The ESD Toolkit is an easy-to-usemanual for beginning the process of combining education andsustainability. The ESD Toolkit has eight major componentsincluding a description of the major thrusts and components ofeducation for sustainable development and a method of bringingESD to the school level; exercises to help schools and communitiesto understand sustainability, create sustainability goals, reorient thecurriculum to address sustainability, and initiate change within aneducational system; and links to other Web sites on sustainability,education for sustainability, and communities that have developedsustainability plans.The ESD Toolkit Web site uses a minimum of color and graphics tofacilitate fast downloading and easy printing for users around theworld. You can download a PDF version of the toolkit from http://www.esdtoolkit.org.

ICEWATCH - IT'S FOR YOUR ICE ONLY!The Canadian Nature Federation, partnered with EnvironmentCanada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network, arelooking for your help. Record the dates of when your water bodyfreezes or thaws (this information is called ICE PHENOLOGY andhelps measure how an aquatic ecosystem responds to climatechange). Send the recorded dates to the address below to helpscientists and other ice-watchers (and you, too!) Learn more aboutclimate change. If you have kept records of ice freeze / thaw for 10years or more, send that information in too, and you"ll receive anIceWatch T-shirt! For more information, check out the CNFIceWatch website at www.cnf.ca/icewatch or email aticewatch@cnf.ca

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BP CRACKS DOWN ON INVASIVE SPECIES IN BALLASTOil companies often work at protecting the environment, andSimon Lisiecki is the first to admit that it's strange for them to wantto find a way to kill tiny sea creatures. But that's exactly whatBritish Petroleum PLC has been doing in conjunction with thegovernment and an environmental watchdoggroup. Lisiecki, BP'smanager of marine business developments, said the company hasspent about $2.5 million on a device designed to destroy foreignmarine species in the ballast water of tankers plying the waters ofPrince William Sound. BP for the past year has been bubblingozone though the ballast water on the double-hulled tankerTonsina. "It works. This thing kills the little critters. It's as simpleas that," Lisiecki said. (04/30/02) Anchorage Daily Newswww.adn.com/business/story/1023239p-1130234c.html

LIVING BY WATERShoreline Talk is distributed to stewardship and conservationnetworks, community groups, municipalities, regional districts, andenvironmental agencies interested in shoreline conservation andrestoration. It is available by fax or email, and is posted on ourwebsite www.livingbywater.ca. Let us know if you'd like to receiveShoreline Talk in another format, or if you'd like to be added to orremoved from our distribution list. Let us help you spread the word!We always welcome submissions for upcoming issues. Just send usyour press release or a brief write up including the necessary contactinformation. Contact Jaci Metivier, shorelines@jetstream.net 250-832-7405. Compiled by Jaci MetivierEdited by the BC/Yukon Project TeamSpecial thanks to the Federation of BC Naturalists"Working towards healthier human and wildlife habitat along theshorelinesof Canada."The Living by Water Project BC/Yukon Project OfficePO Box 7, Salmon Arm, B.C.VIE 4N2ph (250) 832-7405fax (250) 832-6874Ibywater@jetstream.netwww.livingbywater.ca

CANADIAN TOP 10 CLEANUP FINDSFrom the 2001 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, the top ten listof items found was: 1. Cigarettes and cigarette filters 2. Bags/foodwrappers 3. Beverage bottles (glass) 4. Caps, lids 5. Cigar tips6. Cups, plates, forks, knives and spoons 7. Rope 8. Straws, stirrers9. Fast food containers 10. Construction materials

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PEAK To VALLEYTHE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE IN A MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT

FBCN FALL CONFERENCE AND MEETING HOSTED BY THE WHISTLER NATURALIST CLUBSEPTEMBER 2O-22, 2OO2 (EARLY REGISTRATION ENCOURAGED)

Accommodation FBCN 2002 Fall Meeting

September 20-22 Whistler, BC

Tantalus Resort Lodge is the main accommodation for the FBCN2002 fall meeting, We have reserved two bedroom suites in order tokeep the costs down. We are encouraging people to share thesespacious suites (not the rooms, of course). The cost is between$20-30 per person, depending upon the number sharing. Each two-bedroom suite is fully contained with kitchen, two bathrooms,fireplace, balcony and outdoor pool and hot tub, and laundryfacilities. Their direct number is 604-9324146, and be sure tomention that you are with the Whistler Naturalist function as thatwill ensure our group rate.

Rainbow Retreats Accommodations Ltd. is an excellent value. Youcan find their brochure at www.RainbowRetreats.com. TheirAutumn rates are outstanding value already however they areoffering our members a discount ranging from 5% off for a onenight stay (available only at our Creekside location, the WhistlerResort & Club), 10% off for two nights (at the Carleton Lodge inthe village as well as the WR&C), and 15% off on a three night stayat any of their properties, subject to availability. (Note: The bestlocation is the Carleton Lodge, it is minutes from everywhere.)Visitors should pre-book at Rainbow Retreats by calling 604-932-2343 or emailing; reserve@RainbowRetreats.com.

Be sure to identify yourself as FBCN meeting attendees in order toqualify for the discounts,

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Carol Fuegi is making her home available to the group. This is aprivate chalet, in a lovely area 5 minutes north of Whistler Village.Trees surround the chalet, with mountain and glacier views from thespacious Great Room. Comfortable couches and chairs surround thewoodburning stove. The birdfeeders on the deck attract a variety ofbirds and other wildlife. You are welcome to use the fully equippedkitchen and the dining room, which can seat up to 20 people. Thesleeping accommodation is shared rooms with queen & doublebeds. There are plenty of bathrooms. The chalet is located close tothe village, trails and lakes, and is 5-minute drive from all majoractivities. The cost is $30 per person. The chalet is available before,during, and after the meeting.

Please contact Carol Fuegi for more information. Please leave amessage with your phone # and a good time to reach you at: 604-817-6167 (Vancouver) or 604-932-6167 (Whistler) or emailcfuegi@whooshnet.com.

In addition, there is camping available at the Riverside Camp-ground, approximately 3 minutes north of Whistler Village. This isa top-notch campground, with full hook-ups at every site and anattractive location. Tent sites are also available. Call the camp-ground directly at 604-905-5533, or fax 604-905-5539.

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Schedule of Eventsas of September 6,2002

Day/Time Event

FBCN Fan MeetingWhistler Naturalists FestivalSeptember 19-22, 2002

Speaker/Leader

Thursday, September 19th

General Events & Meetings8 PM -10 PM Registration and welcome

Friday, September 20th

General Events & Meetings7 AM - 9 AM Registration7 PM -10 PM Nature photo exhibition and social7 PM - 9 PM FBCN Foundation Meeting

Indoor Events and Workshops9 AM-10 AM Whistler history10.30 AM -11.25 AM Tailed frogs and mountain amphibians

Harlequin ducksTEAMountain insectsRecreation Stewardship Panel workshop

11.35 AM-12.30PM1.30PM-2.20PM2.30PM-3.20PM3:30 PM-5PM

Field Trips6.30 AM - 8.30 AM7 AM - 5 PM9 AM - 12 PM1.30 PM - 4.30 PM

Early morning birdingGlaciology field trip (Sat. weather day)Forest ecology & valley plantsFish & wetlands

L. Rathkelly/N. RickerFrances Vyse

Florence PetersonElke WindKen WrightTBADerrick MarvenJeremy McCall/Tom Burgess

Heather BainesKarl RickerDon MacLaurinV. SommervLlle/r.Symko/r. Cole

Saturday, September 21th

General Events & Meetings7 AM-9 AM Registration9.30 AM-12.30PM1.30 PM-4.30PM6:00 PM-8:00 PM8:30 PM-10PM

FBCN Directors' meetingFall General Mtg., Regional Reports, Young Naturalists' Club ReportSocial and Dinner-$25 in advance - tickets available at registration deskPlenary Speaker: Tom Hurd, Banff N.P. wildlife specialist;FBCN Awards

Indoor Events and Workshops9.30 AM - 9:55 AM Summary of Sea to Sky geology10 AM -10:25 AM Alpine bird migration10:30 AM-10:55 AM Alpine plant ecology

Field Trips6.30 AM-8.30 AM12:30 PM-4.30PM

Early morning birdingAlpine field trips

Sunday, September 22nd

Field Trips8:00 AM-11.00 AM9 AM-12:30 PM1PM-4:30PM

Early morning birding, Squamish EstuaryTraditional plant use herbology walkTraditional plant use herbology walk

Jack SoutherKathy Martin/S. WilsonBob Brett

Nancy RickerJack/Kathy/Bob/Cathy/Derrick/Mitch

Heather Baines/J. WisniaMorgan WellsMorgan Wells

Location

Tantalus Mt.View Room

Tantalus ML View RoomMY Place theatreMY Place boardroom

Whistler MuseumMY Place theatreMY Place theatreMY Place theatreMY Place theatreMY Place theatre

Whistler areaWedgemountInterpretive ForestWhistler area

Tantalus Mt.View RoomTantalus Mt.View RoomTantalus MtView RoomTeppan VillageMY Place theatre

Whistler mid-station*

Whistler areaWhistler Mt. alpine

Squamish EstuaryFitzX-CHutLost Lake

* The Summary of Sea to Sky Geology session at the Whistler Gondola Mid Station will be in the Childrens'Leaming Centre. Cost for the gondola $18(16 for seniors). Warm clothing recommended.

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The Kamloops Naturalist Clubis proud to be hosting the

The Federation Of BC Natuarlists2002-03 Annual General MeetingUniversity College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, BC

Fire & Water

NATURAL FORCES, FLORA, AND FAUNA INTHE HEART OF BCS SOUTHERN INTERIOR...

The Annual General Meeting is open to all FBCN members,and is an excellent way to learn what the Federation is doingon your behalf. It also gives you a chance to provide inputand get involved in the issues of the day.

Past AGMs have been great opportunities to take a vaca-tion, see new terrain, and socialize with people from all overthe province who have similar interests. You might want tospend an extra day or two to take in more of the attractionsthe area has to offer.

Details regarding costs and accommodations, as well as con-firmed field trips, will appear in the winter edition of the BCNaturalist and on the FBCN Web site.

FBCN Web sitehttp://www.naturalists.bc.ca

For more information on the FBCN Annual General Meeting,contact:

Joan Best, Conference Chair Tel. (250) 376-4814E-mail: jbest@mail.ocis.net

Tentative Schedule of Events

Thursday, May 8Workshop: "Managing Our Dry Forests and Grasslands"

Provincial and local experts mil present theirfindings and conclusions on this sometimescontroversial topic at the workshop and field trips.This knowledge will be used to develop a positionpaper on management of our dry forests andgrasslands to complement our Grasslands policypaper.

Friday, May 9Field trips to be announced: "Fire and Water" Theme(starting at Gam for avid early morning bird watchers!)

Evening Social & Slide Show: "Outdoor Kamloops"

Highlights of plants and animals that makeKamloops so special to those of us who live in thearea.

Saturday, May 10Directors' Meeting (morning)Annual General Meeting (afternoon)Field trips to be announcedEvening BanquetGuest Speakers: Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns

This husband and wife team will make apresentation on their Grizzly Bear researchon the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

Sunday, May 11Guided day trip to Wells Gray Provincial ParkOther field trips to be announced

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FBCN Directory of ClubsLower Mainland

Alouette Field Naturalists14136 Marc Rd. Maple Ridge, BC V4R2G5Dir: Duanne Vandenberg i/f:604-463-8743

B.E.A.R.S.1886 Berkley Road North Vancouver,BC, V7H 1Z3 Dir: Betty Carrington604-924 9281

Bowen Nature ClubRR1,D27,Bowenlsl.,BCVON1GODir D.G. Blair-WMehead 1:604-947-0134

Burke Mountain NaturalistsBox 52540 RPO Coquitlam CentreCoquitlam, BC V3B 7J4Din Jude Grass t: 604-520-3706

Central Valley NaturalistsBox 612 Mainstafon Abfcctsford, BC V2S6R7 Dir: Kathy Wilkinson t: 604-854-3203

Chilliwack Field NaturalistsBox 268 Chilliwack, BCV2P6J1Dir: David Mulchings t: 604-858-2486

Delta Naturalists' Society60621 6th Ave. Delta BCV4L1H6Dir: John Whittaker t/f 604-584-6550

Society7 4815 Glacier Lane, Whistler, BC VON1B4Dir Bob Brett 1:604-932-8900White Rock & SurreyNaturalists Soc.Rnx 75044 Whrfp Rnrfc RC V4B 513

Vancouver Island

ley F'eld NaturalistsSoc.Box 56052, Valley Centre POLangley, BC V3A 8B3Dir: Joan Wilmshurst t: 604-534-4314

Fender Harbour & DistrictWildlife SocietyBox 220, Madeira Park, BC VON 2HODir: Elaine Griffith t: 604-739-7985

Royal City Field Naturalists1808 7th Ave. New Westminster, BC V3M2L2 Dir: Gareth Llewellyn t: 604-609-0679

Squamish EstuaryConservation Soc.Box 1274, Squamish, BC VON 3GODir: Nicola Kozakiewicz t: 604-898-4860

Sunshine Coast NaturalHistory Soc.Box 543, Sechelt, BC VON 3AOPresident: T. Greenfield t: 604 885 5539greenfieldtony @ hotmail .com

Stoney CreekEnvironment Committee2625 Noel Drive, Bumaby, BC, V3J 1J2Dir: Jennifer Atcheson t: 604-420 -9132

Vancouver Natural HistorySoc.Box 3021, Vancouver, BCV6B 3X5Din George Bangham 1:604-731-7669Dir Joan Ford t: 604-524-3445Dir Bert Brink t: 604-224-7078Dir Bev Ramey t: 604-224-7689

Whistler Naturalists

Arrowsmith NaturalistsBox 1542, Parksville, BC V9P 2H4Dir: Will Lemmon t: 250-757-2387

Comox Valley NaturalistsSoc.Box 3222, Courtenay, BC V9N 5N4Dir Frank Hovenden t: 250-338-9962

Cowichan ValleyNaturalists' Soc.Box 361, Duncan, BCV9L 3X5Dir: Loren Duncan t: 250-746-0240

Mitlenatch Field NaturalistsSoc.Box 105, QuathiaskJ Cove BC VOP1 NODir Rolf Kellerhalls 1:250-285-3570

Nanaimo Field NaturalistsBox 125, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K4Dir: Guy Monty t: 250-713-0072

Pender Island FieldNaturalists2610 Harpoon, RR2 Pender Island VON2M2 Din Jan Kirkby t: 250329-3381

Rocky Point BirdObservatory3370 Passage Way.Victoria, BC, V9C4J6 Pres: David Allinson T: 250-478-0493

Salt Spring Trail and NatureClubBox 203, Ganges PO,Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2V9Dir: Nancy Braithwaite t: 250-537-9335

Victoria Natural History Soc.Box 5220 Sfri B, Victoria, BC VSR 6N4Dir: Tom Gillespie t/f: 250-361-1694Dir Bob Chappeil t: 250-388-4696Dir: Audrey Copping t: 250-477-6739

Thompson -Okanagan

Central OkanaganNaturalists ClubBox 396 Stn A Kelowna, BCV1Y7N8Dir: Pat Westheuser t: 250-769-6605

Kamloops Naturalist ClubBox 625, Kamloops, BC V2C 5L7Dir: Susan Hammond 1: 250-573-3127

North OkanaganNaturalists1 ClubBox 473, Vemon, BCV1T6M4Dir: Ken Waldon t/f: 250-542-3461Dir Peter Blokher t: 250-545-8297

North Shuswap NaturalistClubBox 162, Celista, BCVOE1LODir: Alfred Bawtree 1:250-955-2155

Oliver-Osoyoos NaturalistsBox 1181, Osoyoos, BC VOH 1TODir: Harold King t/f: 250-495-6907

Shuswap Naturalists ClubBox 1076, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4P2Dir: Ed McDonald 250-835-8802

Similkameen NaturalistClubRR#1 C5 S33, Cawston, BC VOX 1CODir Lee McFadyen t: 250499-5379

South Okanagan NaturalistClubBox 23003, Penticton, BC V2A 8L7Dir: Eva Durance 1:250492-0158

Vermilion Forks FieldNaturalistsBox 2074, Princeton, BC VOX 1WODir: Madelon Schouten t: 250-295-7078

Northern BC

Bulkley Valley NaturalistsBox 4209, Smithers, BC VOJ 2NDDir: Lome Mclntosh t: 250-847-1725

Mackenzie NatureObservatoryBox 1598 Mackenzie, BC VOJ 2CODir: Vida Tattrie t: 250-997-6913

Prince George NaturalistClubBox 1092, Sin A, Prince George V2L 4V2Din Nancy Muirhead 1250-5644432

Quesnel NaturalistsBox 4296 Quesnel, BC V2J 3J3Dir: Loma Schley t: 250-747-2343

Skeena Valley NaturalistsS13C-A1RR#4, Water Lily Bay Rd,Terrace, BC V8G 4V2Dir: Judy Chrysler t: 250-798-2535

Timbcrline Trail & NatureClub9049 Etwood Dr. Dawson Creek V1G 3M8Din Ellen Schoen 1250-7824485

Williams Lake FieldNaturalists Soc.Box 4575, Williams Lake, BC V2G 2V6 DirFred McMechan 1250-392-7680

Kootenay

Boundary NaturalistsAssoc.Box 2191, Grand Forte, BC VOH 1HODir: Ruth Kuh! t: 250-442-8859

Nelson NaturalistsBox 893 Nelson, BCV1L6A5Dir: Jim Vincent t: 250-825-9386

Rocky Mountain NaturalistsBox791Cranbrack,BCV1C4J5Dir Ian Adams t: 250-426-0268

West KootenayNaturalists' Assoc.Box 3121, Castiegar, BCV1N3H4Dir: Joan Snyder 1:250-226-0012

Affiliate Groups

Columbia Valley FieldNaturalistsRR4155710th a Irrverrrere, BC VOA1K4Tanya Begin t: 250-342-9077

Kitimat Valley Naturalists12 Farrow Street, Kitimat BC V8C1E2Walter Thome t: 250-632-7632

Osoyoos Desert SocietyBox 500 Osoyoos, BC VOH 1VOMarlon Clapson t: 250-495-2470

Malaspina Naturalist Club4029 Lyton Ave, Powell River BC VBA 5A6Sherri Wretham t :604485-2602

Southern InteriorBluebird SocietyBox 494, Oliver, BC VOH 1TOPres. Sherry Linn i:250495-7891

Sunshine CoastConservation AssocBox 1969 Sechelt, BC VON 3AODir.: Marianne Larsen t:604-885-6431

Lillooet Naturalist SocietyBox 1065 Liliooet, BC VOK 1VOPres. Vivian Birch-Jones t: 250-256-4062

Regional Coord. Brencfa Balaam940 Celia Cres., Trail, BC Dir:t: 250-368-9677

Arrow Lakes NaturalistClubBox294Nakusp,BCVOG1RODir: Gary Davidson t: 250-265-4456

AssociateGroups

Alan Brooks Native Centre Soc.Vemon, BC t: 250-260-4227Alexander McKenzieVoyageur Route AssocKelowna, BC t: 250-860-4782BC WatershedStewardship AllianceVancouver, BCBiology Coop. EducationCoordinatorsUniv. of Victoria, BCBoundary BayConservation Comm.Delta, BC t: 604-943-6406Burns Bog Conservation Soc.Delta, BC t: 604-572-0373

Charie Lake Conservation Soc.Charlie Lake, BCComox Valley ProjectWatershedCourtenay, BCCreston Valley WildlifeMgt. Area Soc.

Creston, BC t: 250-428-3260

Evergreen FoundationVancouver BCt: 604-689-0766Federation of BCMountain ClubsVancouver BC t: 604-878-7007Francis Pt. Marine Park Soc.Madeira Park BC 1:604-883-2730Friends of CarenMadeira Park BCFriends of CypressProvincial Park Soc.West Vancouver, 604-922-7949Friends of the StikineGibsons, BCGarry Oak MeadowsPreservation Soc.Victoria BCGrassy Plains SchoolBums Lake, BCLand Trust Alliance of BCSalt Spring Isl. BC 1:250-538-0112Macdonald Wood ParkSocietyComox BC t: 250-339-4370Marine Life Sanctuaries Soc.Vancouver, BC t: 604-684-6212Native Plant Society of BCVancouver BC 1:604-255-5719Natural History Soc. ofNfld & LabradorSt. Johns, NfldNature SaskatchewanReginaSask. 1:306-713-6698Nature Trust of BCNorth Vancouver 604-924-9771Okanagan SimilkameenParks Soc.Summerland BC t: 250494-8996Riverview HorticulturalSocietyCoquitlam, BC t: 604-290-9910Sargeant Bay SocietySechelt, BCSave Our Parkland Assoc.Vancouver, BC t: 604-224-7027Soc. Promoting EnvironmentalConservation (SPEC)Vancouver, BC t: 604-736-7732Soil & Water ConservationSoc.Langley BCt: 604-888-7511Somenos Marsh Wildlife Soc.Duncan, BCStanley Park EcologyAssoc.Vancouver, BC t: 604-257-6908Students for EnvironmentalAwarenessCamosun College, Victoria t: 250-370-3139Swan Lake/Christmas HillNature CentreVictoria BCt: 250479-0811

The Land Conservancy of BCVictoria t: 250-479-8053Vancouver t: 604-733-2313www.conseivancy.bc.caTrails BCVancouver, BCt: 604-737-3188West Vancouver StreamkeepersVancouver, BC t: 604-984-9311Wild Bird Trust of BCVancouver, BC t: 604-921-8253World Wildlife Fund

FBCN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2002

Jeremy McCall: PresidentRosemary Fox: Vice PresidentAnne Murray: Past PresidentDonald McLellan: TreasurerJoan Best: Recording SecretaryBev Ramey: Conservation ChairGreg Ross: Education ChairBrenda Balaam: Kootenay Regional CoordinatorGeorge Bangham: Lower Mainland Regional CoordinatorSandra Kinsey: Northern B.C. Regional CoordinatorRon Speller: Vancouver Island Regional CoordinatorEd McDonald: Thompson Okanagan Regional Coordinator

Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan: Honorary President

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