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View from St. John Point
News and Updates

Annual General Meeting April 23

Please join us at our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 1:30 pm at the Agricultural Hall. Here is the agenda: Here is a summary of our 2021 financial statement: Here are the draft minutes from last year’s AGM, to be approved at this meeting:

By Don Enright, 1 monthApril 19, 2022 ago
Caring for the Land

Urgent: Please Comment on the Government Hunting Survey

The Mayne Island Conservancy is asking its members and concerned community members to respond to the Government of BC’s survey regarding hunting regulations on Mayne Island. The deadline to respond to the survey is midnight on January 23. While the survey asks respondents to choose one of three options, we are Read more…

By Don Enright, 4 monthsJanuary 16, 2022 ago
Caring for the Land

Deer Management: Response from the Provincial Government

The following is the text from the response we received to our letter to the Minister regarding the management of overabundant deer on Mayne Island. Reference: 267889Dec 06 2021VIA EMAIL: info@conservancymayne.com Malcolm Inglis, PresidentMayne Island Conservancy SocietyPO Box 31Mayne Island, British ColumbiaVON 2J0 Dear Malcolm Inglis: Thank you for your Read more…

By Don Enright, 4 monthsJanuary 15, 2022 ago
News and Updates

A Forestry Award for Stephanie Wilford

Former Mayne Island Conservancy’s Summer Intern receives prestigious recognition On October 6th 2021, Stephanie Wilford (Bachelor of Science Honours, Forest Ecology and Management, 2020) current PhD student (and former member of the Mayne Island Conservancy’s Summer Intern Program) received the Schlich Memorial Prize from the Canadian Institute of Forestry / Institut forestier Read more…

By Don Enright, 6 monthsNovember 24, 2021 ago
Event Recordings

The Geology of Mayne Island

U of Calgary PhD student Rebecca Englert presents findings from research on the sedimentary rocks that make up Mayne Island. Rebecca has a B.Sc. in Integrated Science (2015) from McMaster University and a M.Sc. in Geology (2017) from the University of Calgary. She is currently in the final year of Read more…

By Don Enright, 7 monthsNovember 1, 2021 ago
Board and Staff

Board and Staff 2022

Board of Directors Malcolm Inglis – President A long-time visitor to Mayne Island, Malcolm retired here in 2010 from a long and varied career in information technology, having worked in the private sector and at all levels of government. On Mayne, Malcolm gets to indulge his love of the natural Read more…

By Don Enright, 8 monthsOctober 5, 2021 ago
Long-bodied cellar spider
Mayne Wildlife

Spiders of Mayne Island (and Reasons to Love Them)

Spiders aren’t everybody’s cup of tea. They can be unpredictable, fast-moving, hairy-looking, and they show up in inconvenient places like your bath tub. But spiders are wonders of nature that deserve our respect. All of them are predators—that is to say, they don’t chew on your petunias nor bore into Read more…

By Don Enright, 8 monthsSeptember 30, 2021 ago
barred owl
News and Updates

Simplifying Our Memberships

At the upcoming Annual General Meeting on August 15, we will propose a change in our bylaws to allow us to simplify our membership structure. Based on feedback from our members and our volunteers, we propose dropping the Family and Child membership level. Because the membership categories are included in Read more…

By Don Enright, 10 monthsJuly 23, 2021 ago
Event Recordings

Boundary Pass – Whale Highway

With Guest Lucy Quayle Do you want to learn more about whales that live in the Salish Sea and how we can help them thrive? We do! So we invited researcher Lucy Quayle from Simon Fraser University to share what she’s learned about local whales and the challenges they face in Read more…

By Don Enright, 1 yearMay 5, 2021 ago
Event Recordings

A Return to Stewardship, March 24, 2021

Recording of the Zoom presentation “A Return to Stewardship: Indirect Human Effects on the Conservation of Native Species”, March 24, 2021. UBC Professor Dr. Peter Arcese  joined us for a discussion of the ecological impacts of exotic herbivores in the Southern Gulf Islands.

By Don Enright, 1 yearApril 6, 2021 ago

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