Entries by TJ Watt

Shooting Stars

A beautiful highlight in endangered Garry oak meadows is the shooting star, with its vivid purple and swept-back wing-like petals.

Bigleaf Maple Flowers

In the coastal rainforests, you know it’s officially spring when the bigleaf maples start to flower with their subtle yellow-green colouring! Learn more about these lovely flowers here.

Earth Day — Environmental Groups to BC Government: Go Forward, Not Backward on Old-Growth Protection and Modernization of BC Forestry

This Earth Day, AFA and EEA are issuing a strong warning to the BC government about potential commercial logging in protected areas and calling on it to refocus on incomplete measures to protect old-growth forests, implement its draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework, and ensure a transition to a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry.