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1971
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BC
government passes Ecological Reserves Act, Ecological Reserves (ER) are to
be surveyed, proposed, and established based on principles established by
the International Biological Program.
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Dr.
Vladimire Krajina's (1905 - 1993) goal is to protect 1% of BC's land area
in ERs.
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29
ERs are created, including Cleland Island, a seabird colony west of Tofino,
and the smallest reserve, Canoe Islet, a 0.61 ha island off the SE tip of
Valdes Island.
1972
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14
ERs created, including Mara Meadows, a unique low level swamp.
1973
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10
ERs created including the Krajina Reserve (#45)-Port Chanal and Hippa
Island off the Queen Charlotte Islands- 9,834 ha of old growth, including
the largest trees protected in an ER
1974
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Dr.
J. Bristol Foster is first Coordinator of Ecological Reserves Program.
1975
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Gladys Lake, Spatsizi Reserve (#68), BC's
largest ER is created-33,185 ha.
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17
other ERs established, including the Great Blue Heron Nesting Site on the
UBC Endowment Lands.
1976
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One
ER created, Clanninick Creek (#75).
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Dr.
Jim Pojar hired as Botanist for ERs.
1977
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Campbell-Brown
Reserve, the first private property donated as an ER, is given to BC by
Hugh Campbell Brown in memory of his parents who farmed the area from 1913
- 1943.
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Trudy
Carson hired.
1978
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93
established reserves; 297 applications for ERs remaining.
1979
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3
new ERs created, including 2 seabird colonies-Anthony Island and Kerouard Islands.
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Dr.
Hans Roemer hired as Botanist.
1980
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A
marine ER at Race Rocks is established after extensive student lobbying at Lester B. Pearson College.
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Lynne
Milnes hired to manage a new Warden Program for ERs.
1981
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1st
edition of the Ecological Reserves Newsletter is published.
1982
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1,248
ha totally marine Michael Bigg Robson Bight ER established.
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Insufficient
funding to maintain the government ER newsletter inspires the inception of
Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER). A fund-raising auction in October
1982 realizes start-up costs as artist Robert Bateman donates proceeds.
Charter members include Laurie Milmine, Trudy Chatwin, Peggy Frank and
Peter Grant.
1983
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FER
incorporates as a non-profit society January 29. Charter members of the
society are Allison Watt, David Avren, Mary-Lou Florian, Peter Legg and
Lori Milmine.
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Vicky
Husband is President of FER (until 1988).
1984
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2
ERs established-Mount Tzuhalem (#112) and Honeymoon Bay (#113). 1985
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Khutzeymateen Valley adopted as a project.
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ER
program moves to jurisdiction of Parks Programs Branch of the Ministry of
Lands, Parks and Housing.
1986
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Katherine
Tye Reserve (#116) is created protecting one of Canada's rarest flowers, the Phantom
Orchid.
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FER
raises $20,000 for grizzly research in the Khutzeymateen. 1987
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Vicky
Husband receives UN Global 500 award (outstanding contributions to the
environmental field).
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3
ERs incorporated within the newly created South Moresby National Park
Reserve.
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Finally,
the proposed Windy Bay ER is protected.
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Haley Lake ER (#117) is established- a
significant colony of the endangered Vancouver Island Marmot.
1988
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Wayne
McCrory and Herb Hammond hired as consultants on the Khutzeymateen project.
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406
m of fencing completed at Mt. Tzuhalem ER (#112).
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A
Guide to Ecological Reserves in BC is published.
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412
ha added to Robson Bight ER. Brackman Island purchased by the Nature
Conservancy of Canada, turned over to the Nature Trust, and leased to ER program.
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Minister
of Environment announces a three-year study of Khutzeymateen to assess the
impact of proposed logging on grizzly bear population.
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5
ERs within the Tsitika River drainage created-less than 5% of
the Tsitika watershed is protected.
1989
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Nestucca
Oil spill off Washington impacts every sea-bird ER on the
west coast of Vancouver
Island-the
estimated bird kill 30,000 - 60,000.
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Government
compiles new "System Plan" for ERs "to determine what
reserves are present and in what ecosystems and to define the gaps in
reserve representation; and to determine priorities for selection,
evaluation and designation of Ecological Reserves&ldots;"
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FER
raises over $100,000 to study and protect the Khutzeymateen Valley.
1990
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6
ERs created: total 131 reserves; 124 viable proposals remaining.
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Six
proposed ERs will be protected by inclusion in existing provincial parks.
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FER
research provides funding to Irene Manley and Dr. Alan Burger who helped
find Canada's first Marbled Murrelet nest in
the Carmanah- Walbran valley.
1991
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Parks
Plan 90 and Wilderness Area Plan announced.
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2
ERs added (Gamble Creek, Ellis Island); 2 are enlarged (Haley Lake, Oak Bay Islands).
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ERs
now managed by BC Parks; management of ERs and support for volunteer
wardens is fully decentralized.
1992
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Government
announces that Khutzeymateen Valley is to be protected as a Class A
Provincial Park.
1993
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9
ERs proposed by BC Parks.
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The
Log records Dr. Krajina's obituary.
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131
reserves protect 160,000 ha, of which one-third are marine areas. In over
25 years, little more than 1/10th of Dr. Krajina's conservation vision has
been realized.
1994
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Khutzeymateen Provincial Park announced.
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Government
policy now requires BC Parks to issue permits for field trips to ERs.
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Proposed
amendments to Ecological Reserves Act would allow for legal definition of
boundaries of ERs, to increase penalties for infractions of the Act and to
identify inappropriate activities in ERs.
1996
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8
new ERs established on Vancouver Island, the first reserves created since 1991.
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BC
Parks suggests that the volunteer warden program be replaced with "a
volunteer stewards program that would assist in the management of new
protected areas as well as ERs."
1997
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FER
partners with TLC to bring land stewardship options (The Landowner Contact
Project) to the Cariboo- Chilcotins.
1998
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A
massive campaign to protect the Vancouver Island Marmot (Haley Lakes ER,
among other locations) is launched by the Nature Trust of BC and others.
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Race
Rocks ER is announced as a Marine Protected Area. Hans Roemer in the
Tahsish watershed.
1999
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Year
3 of the Landowner Contact Project is successfully completed.
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The
Vicky Husband Scholarship, to be awarded annunally, for environmental
studies at the University of Victoria is established.
2000
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5
new ecological reserves are established in northern BC, as well as one new
ER in the Gulf Islands.
2001
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Researcher
Pam Janszen finds 53 not previously observed species of fungi in ER15.
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BC
Hydro proposes the building of a gas pipeline to pass through Satellite
Channel (ER67)
2002
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Major
reorganization and down-sizing of BC Ministries including Water, Land &
Air Protection (WLAP) and Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) which contain
all the elements of the Wildlife, Fisheries, Habitat Protection and Parks
Program which had been included in the former Ministry of Environment,
Lands and Parks (MELP).
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