Our wetlands are drying up fast!

One of my projects has been to continue the monitoring work performed for SRWS by Karenn Bailey and Jennifer Buchanan, both B.C.I.T. Ecological Restoration graduates.  It has consisted of monitoring wetlands created previously or conserved in the following areas: Pinecrest, Culliton, Brohm and the Sea to Sky Gondola.  This summer has proven to be a challenge for these wetlands.  While they are all ephemeral, many have dried up many weeks earlier than previously recorded.

Pinecrest Pond from May 21 to July 3, 2015

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I have spotted many amphibians in these wetlands including the provincially blue listed Northern Red-legged frog (Rana aurora) in the Brohm wetlands.