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      • Community Conservation Program
      • About Environmental Education
      • 'Bat' Pack
      • 'Bee' Pack
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the bog blog:
​quest students in the estuary!

The Juicebox Heroes

15/3/2015

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​Today, Sunday March 15, I went down to the WestBarr site to take some pictures of the planting party Edith had organized. However, roughly an hour after the party had started it dissipated! We had so many generous volunteers show up that all the work was done in no time. A big THANK YOU to everyone who came out today. 
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​I did manage to catch a fine group of ladies and lads hard at work fixing up a section of the South Loop Trail. A huge thank you to Gerd and David Moore, Matt Cooper, Conor Halliwell, Shane DeGroote, Chris Hyde, Austin Heffelfinger, and Nathan Bayne. It was hard work moving all that saturated rock and gravel, but the final outcome is a helpful improvement. Hope everyone enjoys the spruced up trail once the construction has ceased and the trail is operational again!
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North Loop Trail Nature Walk

15/3/2015

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This past Monday, Edith and Rhonda took Peter-Ann and I out on a walk of the North Loop Trail and taught us how to use GPS's and take field notes. Here are some of the neat ecology we saw:
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Silverweed (Argentina sp.)
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Tree burl caused by virus, fungi, or physical damage.
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Chocolate lily (Fritillaria sp.)
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Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
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Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara). Somewhat toxic.
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Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza). Taste the roots - they taste like licorice!
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Sitka spruces
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Human introduced oak trees.
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WestBarr Planting

12/3/2015

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The WestBarr log sort in the Central Estuary has been recently decommissioned and is currently undergoing restoration. Bulldozers and machinery are working hard at lowering the soil level and creating new tidal channels. On Tuesday, March 10th roughly 500 plants were delivered from a nursery in Abbotsford, containing native species such as Black Hawthorn, Hardhack, Salmonberry, cedars, and Sitka Spruce. We managed to get roughly 200 plants in before the much needed rains came Wednesday and Thursday! ​
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    Maria Yasel

    Maria Yasel is an Environmental Science undergraduate student at Quest University in Squamish. For the month of March she has teamed up with the SRWS to aid with the WestBarr log sort restoration and to develop a natural capital evaluation of the Squamish Estuary

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