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January 2010 Newsletter NEWS FROM Newsletter of the Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Society January 2010 INSIDE: Coastal Plants Author 2 Habitat Rehabilitation 4 Guilt-Free Fashions 5 Wild Greens Festival 6 Native Plants Nursery 7 1% for the Planet 7 Bottles for Benson 8 Vesper Sparrow Habitat 9 Thank You All 10 Charlee Hawes putting up information signs in the Linley Valley PLEASE SUPPORT THE PROTECTION OF DL 56 IN THE LINLEY VALLEY NALT is calling on all members and supporters to voice your support for a provincial proposal that would protect District Lot 56 - the BC crown land in the Linley Valley. DL 56 has been included in a recent BC Ministry of Forests and Range proposal to protect five crown properties in the Coastal Douglas fir ecosystem by providing them with ‘enhanced stewardship’, and you have only until February 15th to send your comments to the Ministry in support of this proposal. DL 56, a 260-acre block of crown land in the Linley Valley, is located directly east of the 145-acre Cottle Lake Park that was purchased by the City of Nanaimo in 2003 with the help of a $500,000 fundraising campaign carried out by NALT. “If the province protects this block of crown land it will mean an area of more than 400 acres in the Linley Valley will be protected for its environmental values and for recreation,” said NALT Executive Director Gail Adrienne. “This is something that both NALT and the City have been hoping for and working towards for many years. It will give Nanaimo residents a legacy of green space that will be valued more and more in the years to come, much like Stanley Park in Vancouver.” According to the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC), of the five properties cited in the BC Ministry of Forests and Range proposal, three others are located in the RDN - in Nanoose, near Bowser and in the Little Qualicum watershed. A fifth property is located at Hurtado, north on the Sunshine Coast. (Continued on page 3) News from NALT January 2010 Page 1 NEWS FROM NALT COASTAL PLANTS AUTHOR IN NANAIMO is published by the ON MARCH 4 Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Andy MacKinnon - forester, biologist, ecologist and author - will be NALT's Mission is: presenting in Nanaimo in early March as part of our Annual to promote and protect the Seminar Series, thanks to sponsorship by NALT’s Edible Wild natural values of land in the Plants Project which is funded by the BC Ministry of Housing and Nanaimo area Social Development. Andy MacKinnon is well known to botanists and outdoors The Nanaimo & Area enthusiasts as one of the authors of Plants of Coastal British Land Trust Society Columbia, a popular field guide published by Lone Pine Books. It was registered as a B.C. Society was co-authored by Jim Pojar. in 1995, and subsequently was granted charitable tax status In his day job, Andy MacKinnon works as a coastal region and the right to hold ecologist for the BC Ministry of Forests and Range, and is adjunct conservation covenants. professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University. In his spare time, Andy Management Staff has contributed to five other titles for Lone Pine - including Edible Executive Director: Gail Adrienne and Medicinal Plants of Canada, published in 2009. Financial Manager: Deanna Bickerton “NALT‘s Edible Wild Plants Project has a mandate to raise public Volunteer Coordinator: Paul Chapman awareness about the potential to use the rich diversity of edible Plant Nursery Manager: Susan Fisher wild plants found throughout central Vancouver Island,” says Conservation Covenant Specialist: Norm Wagenaar, NALT’s Stewardship Centre and Programs Anne Kerr Manager. “With that focus, we figured Andy MacKinnon was a Administrative Assistant: perfect fit for the annual NALT series of public presentations and Betty Penston seminars.” Andy is known for his lively talks and great story- Stewardship Centre and telling. Programs Manager: Norm Wagenaar His presentation in Nanaimo will take place on March 4th in the Lounge of Beban Park Recreation Centre, starting at 7 pm. This Newsletter Editor: Ken Lyall informative evening is open to the public with no admission Board of Directors charge, but a suggested donation of $10. Look for more details closer to the event date on the NALT website: www.nalt.bc.ca Holly Blackburn Gillian Butler Dean Gaudry (co-chair) Sherry Halfyard JOB POSTING Jean-Michel Hanssens Charlee Hawes, one of our participants in the JCP Habitat Allan Hawryzki Restoration and Enhancement Crew (see story on page 4), has Barbara Hourston Dale Lovick (co-chair) found full-time work and will be leaving the crew at the end of Shelley Serebrin January. It has been a real pleasure working with Charlee over Ron Tanasichuk the last six months and she is sure to do well in her new job. Jim Young Congratulations Charlee! Contact us at: As a result, we now have an opening on our Crew. The activities of the project involve habitat restoration in the Mount Benson The NALT Stewardship Centre Regional Park and in selected lowland areas within the RDN. The Madrona Building (lower floor) project runs until the end of June. If you, or anyone you know Suite 8, 140 Wallace Street who has an active or recent EI claim, is interested in applying for Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5B1 this position, please call Paul for complete job description and more information before 4:00 pm Friday, February 5: phone: (250) 714-1990 email: [email protected] 250-714-1990 or email [email protected] www.nalt.bc.ca News from NALT January 2010 Page 2 (Continued from page 1) Together, the five properties total nearly 4,000 acres of Coastal Douglas fir ecosystem. This ecosystem is considered among the most endangered in Canada, with less than 1% of the original old growth left and about 50% of the entire ecosystem under pavement or agriculture. It is DL 56 characterized by a Mediterra- nean-like climate, featuring coastal Douglas fir, arbutus and Garry oak, and contains many species at risk. A recent press release from WCWC applauds the Ministry’s move, and encourages the government to expand this wonderful initiative to include all remaining crown land parcels of Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystem from Bowser to Sooke. Nanaimo NDP MLA Leonard Krog said letters and e-mails of support would push the government to “do the right thing for Linley Valley.” Bill Zinovich of the Integrated Land Management Bureau in Nanaimo told NALT that “enhanced stewardship” on the properties means “no logging.” The order from the Ministry allows up to five percent of the area of the properties to be disturbed, but only for access to address safety concerns. “We urge everyone to send a letter endorsing the protection of DL 56 in the Linley Valley and the four other properties in the proposal.” said Gail Adrienne. “And, you may also want to support the call made by WCWC that the Ministry to extend this initiative to include protection of all remaining crown land parcels of Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystem from Bowser to Sooke.” For more information on the land use order that would protect the Linley Valley and the other Coastal Douglas fir areas, go to: www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/slrp/legalobjectives/advertisedLUORs.html Letters can be mailed to: Bill Zinovich, Integrated Land Management Bureau, West Coast Service Centre, Suite 142, 2080 Labieux Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6J9 or emailed to: [email protected] Remember, you only have until February 15th to make your thoughts known. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank 1929-1945 News from NALT January 2010 Page 3 incorporated into this business proposal. HABITAT REHABILITATION AND There are many pressures on natural ecosystems ENHANCEMENT CREW in the Nanaimo area, including a rapid population growth, infiltration of invasive plant species, and Since the onset of winter rains and snow in the habitat loss. Together with an expansion of public Mount Benson Regional Park, NALT’s Habitat parklands, these present an increasing challenge Rehabilitation and Enhancement Crew, funded by to park personnel. the provincial Job Creation Partnerships (JCP), has been concentrating its efforts in lands below In recent years, NALT has coordinated two crews the snowline. With Joan Michel, the RDN Parks that have worked in the field, with City of Nanaimo and Trails Coordinator, the team visited the Parks and RDN Parks staff, to protect and Lighthouse Community Trail with an eye to enhance the natural values of parkland and other redesigning it to accommodate wheelchair traffic. significant green spaces. The proposed This challenging project will involve creating a Conservation Crew will build on these relationships minimal-slope trail while maintaining the viability of and their experience to offer trail building and root systems and wetlands. The crew is currently maintenance, habitat restoration and working on mapping the existing trail and enhancement, naturescaping and other generating alternative routes within the narrow stewardship services. corridor of the trail allowance. The business plan for the Conservation Crew will The participants have also completed the design of target the following opportunities: some directional and interpretive signage for work to work in remote sites such as the Arrowsmith that was completed in the Mount Benson Park Massif. NALT’s experience working on Mount earlier in the fall.
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