Monthly Archives: August 2013

Trees of the Coast of Metchosin

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Terrestrial and Marine Systems Interact with exchanges of materials and energy between the two. This page when developed further will illustrate that interaction.
Some ideas to be developed here:

1. Energy and materials transfer to the ocean of terrestrial vegetative material  by freshwater runoff . Carbon and Nutrient input from forests to the oceans.

2. The close ties between salmon and forest productivity

3. Overhanging trees in Coastal areas providing shelter and insect food for forage fish.

4. Control of coastal erosion by tree cover.

5. Coastline aesthetics of tree cover.

Link to posts on this website tagged with “Trees”

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See the Protected Tree Map of Metchosin
The Protected Trees of Metchosin was a topic of one of the Blue-Green Spaces Walk and Talk Series. The files on the trees have been prepared by Jim MacPherson and Moralea Milne.

Link to the Tree Cutting Bylaw proposal of MEASC, 2013

Link to the  Tree Management Bylaw :

Link to:Times Colonist:  Metchosin stops short of requiring permits to cut trees

 

First Nations and Coastal Metchosin

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First Nations Peoples have lived on the shores of Metchosin for millenia using the bountiful resources of the sea, the forests and the fields of Camus.  Many different groups occupied the shorelands and this location was at the boundary of the lands of the inner Coast Salish people and the outer coast where more warlike Nootka tribes lived The local tribes  were often caught in the middle of intertriibal warfare.  In the documentation that follows from the Race Rocks website, one such group, from 1500 to 1000 years ago inhabited the area and built the many burial cairns still present in fields of Metchosin, Rocky Point and Race Rocks. Then without any record of what happened, that complete cultural tradition disappeared.

Link to posts on this website tagged “First Nations”

Link to the First Nations FIle:

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Clupea pallasii: Pacific Herring

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These small herring –12cm were found washed up on Taylor Beach

Herring found on Taylor Beach

Pacific Herring, (Clupea pallasii) found on Taylor Beach-photo by G.Fletcher

Cause of death unknown.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
Subfamily: Clupeinae
Genus: Clupea
Species: C. pallasii

Link to other posts on this website on Fish ;

Link to the organisms added to our species list for Metchosin shores.