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The Coastline of the Metchosin District, Southern Vancouver Island

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Monthly Archives: January 2022

Habitat Restoration at Witty’s Lagoon Regional Park

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Garry Fletcher

Over the past year a volunteer group has worked with CRD Parks staff to restore some of the sensitive habitat at Witty’s beach and lagoon. 

It is important to observe the signage and avoid walking in this area.

Posted in Biodiversity, Coastal Plants, Estuary, Sand beach | Tagged Witty's lagoon

Shoreline Stabilization at Witty’s beach .

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Garry Fletcher

In the fall  of 2021, a cliff stabilization exercise was carried out along with the re-establishment of the stairway down to Witty’s Beach .  Cuttings of willow were planted in the area of the back that had been eroding. 

 

Posted in Coastal erosion, Coastal Features, erosion, Human Impact on Shorelines | Tagged Wittys beach

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  • Wolf Eel : Anarrhichthys ocellatus on Taylor beach
  • When will those humans stop abusing our beaches

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  • Information and Issues of the Coastline of Metchosin on Southern Vancouver Island
  • 19th Century Victoria waterfront
  • 2. Albert Head to Clover Point Segment
  • A: Becher Bay to Whirl Bay
  • Business Plan
  • Clover Point to 10 mile Point Segment
  • Coastal Chart Segment Becher Bay to Parry Bay
  • Coastal Jurisdiction
  • Contact Information: Garry Fletcher
    • Copyright Information
  • Environment of our shoreline
    • Coastal Metchosin in 8 sections
    • Biodiversity of the Metchosin Coastline
      • Birds of Coastal Metchosin
        • Seabird Fall Census on Taylor Beach
      • Coastal Terrestrial Plants in Metchosin.
      • Marine Mammals of Coastal Metchosin
      • Taxonomy and Species Gallery of Coastal Metchosin
    • Coastal Ecosphere Resources
    • Geology of the Metchosin Coastline
    • The Metchosin Shore from Beecher Bay to Albert Head
    • Underwater
  • Sector 8: Albert Head, Tower Point, WIttys Lagoon,
  • The Metchosin Coastal website.
    • Coastal Development Issues in Metchosin
      • Anthropogenic (human-caused) Ecosystem Modification
    • Metchosin Coastal Ecosystems

Tags to try

  • abiotic factors
  • acidification
  • Ammodytes hexapterus
  • anthropogenic
  • beach fires
  • Bentinck Island
  • Bonapartes gull
  • Coastal erosion
  • CRD
  • DND blasting
  • Echinodermata
  • ecosystem
  • Ecosystem integrity
  • education
  • elephant seal
  • feeder bluff
  • fisheries
  • Integrated ecosystems
  • introduced species
  • loon
  • Mollusca
  • nudibranch
  • overharvesting
  • Pedder Bay
  • pH
  • plankton
  • purple martin
  • race rocks
  • resource management
  • riparian
  • sandlance
  • sea grass
  • seawalls
  • sensitive ecosystems
  • species list
  • succession
  • sustainability
  • Symbiotic
  • Taylor Beach
  • trees
  • Veronica americana
  • weirs beach
  • Witty's lagoon
  • Wittys beach
  • Wolf Bauer
The MetchosinCoastal website was originally created to represent the contiguous ecosystems of the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve/Marine Protected Area and for the use of the Green Blue Spaces sub committee of the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee (MEASC ) Copyright: G.Fletcher 2013 ( garryf ( use at) gmail.com)
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