 MVIHES would like to invite you to help eradicate the masses of broom on the west side of the Englishman River estuary on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 10 am or 1 pm.
Our Project Manager, Faye, will greet people at Surfside RV park (foot of Corfield Street in Parksville) at 9:45 for the morning crew and 12:45 for the afternoon crew. She will provide instructions on the effective removal of the broom and then we can all go through the private gate together. If you arrive late, please go to the RV Park office and ask for entry through the gate.
The Broombusters will bring some loppers, but if you have your own, hand held pruners or appropriate shovels please bring them. You are welcome to work for as long or short of time as you would like. We look forward to seeing you out there!
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 What an awesome diversity and number of fish we caught in our (relatively) small net at four sites! We netted hundreds of pipefish, Staghorn and Buffalo Sculpin, hundreds of juvenile flatfish, about a hundred Midshipmen, loads of Kelp Crab, Kelp Greenling, Sandlance, many Shiner Perch, Ghost Shrimp, and even some of what we were looking for - chum salmon smolts - and more!
The beach seine surveys are supervised by Fisheries Biologist, Dave Clough, with help from MVIHES volunteers and funded by Georgia Basin Vancouver Island Living Rivers. We'll be going out again in early June. Check the Current Events Calendar for dates if you want to become involved.
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Saturday, 08 May 2010 18:38 |
 Michele Deakin and Faye Smith attended the Pacific Estuarine Research Society (PERS) conference at VIU in Nanaimo April 30 and May 1. They presented the Caring for the Englishman River Estuary and Nearshore bio-inventory and volunteer monitoring project with a power point lecture and a conference poster. A non-profit society,PERS brings together persons actively engaged in estuarine and coastal research and management on the Pacific Coast of North America for informal discussion and exchange of ideas for educational purposes. Presenting in Nanaimo were delegates from BC, Washington State, Oregon, California and Alaska. |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 13:24 |
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An interesting video and research piece that was posted to Scientific American Observations blog.
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