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The Coastline of the Metchosin District, Southern Vancouver Island

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Metchosin Coastal Ecosystems

COASTAL METCHOSIN
southislandFor photos and details for the numbered sectors on the map, click on the corresponding numbers below.

1. Race Rocks Archipelago– a link to the resources of racerocks.ca
2. Bentinck Island and Rocky Point– DND property, a variety of ecosystems
3. Church Island and Whirl Bay- Island and rocky coastal
4. Beecher Bay- First Nations reserve Shoreline, DND, Private land and Park.
5. Pedder Bay– The shores of the Bay with Pearson College education,  Estuary, and riparian areas:
6. WilliamHead — A rocky shore headland–
7. Weirs and Taylor Beach– A variety of beach, estuary and rocky shores, with intertidal areas.  
8. Witty’s Lagoon and Albert Head: Beaches and headlands
  • Map of Anthropogenic Habitat Modification in Metchosin
  • Mapof Locations of some of the Underwater organisms of  Coastal Metchosin.  to redo yet
  • Map of Ecologically Sensitive areas in Metchosin
  • Coastal Physical Shoreline Classification Units
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William Head Taylor Beach Pedder Bay Albert Head Beecher Bay Church Hill Bentinck Island Race Rocks

 

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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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