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Bowker Creek Chum Salmon Recovery begins our Streamkeepers survey of habitat and water quality in August. Please come out and join us. We are forming as a new streamkeeper group with one clear focus – restore a population of salmon in Bowker Creek. Bowker Creek... Read more
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This is an excellent article from the Beacon Hill archives that describes the Garry oak meadows of Victoria in 1843 and then the human impact of foot traffic by 2005. Please read and pass this bit of history along to all you know. Camas Country By Janis Ringuette... Read more
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The classes at Ecole Willows Elementary have been restoring a very unhealthy area in Uplands Park for the past 4 years. It was an area ploughed in the 1850’s to create part of Uplands Farm growing non-native agrarian grasses to feed the cattle. By 2016, there were... Read more
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On Saturday, October 19, Geoffrey was on the 5 p.m. edition of the local Live CHEK NEWS with a rare bird sighting in the Panama Flats. The bird is a Yellow-browed Warbler from Siberia. Geoffrey Newell is the leader of our monthly Bird Walks in Uplands Park. He is one... Read more
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Thank you for your support of our Volunteer Friends of Uplands Park Society. We greatly appreciate the many ways that our members volunteer: helping to restore Uplands Park and other natural areas in Oak Bay, stopping by to appreciate those that are able to do this,... Read more