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Victoria Bioblitz April 22, 2017!
Beacon Hill Park Organizers chill before the counting begins: Jon Wiersma (CWF), Catherine Keogen (UVic), Elizabeth Gammell, (CWF), Garry Oak, Val Schaefer (UVic), and Britten Jacob-Schram (UVic), in...
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BCSLA Sitelines with Val Schaefer as Guest Editor Now Available
Welcome to this month’s Siteline readers. To browse through RNS students’ ER390s, check here or under the “RNS Student Papers” tab. I was very honoured to be the Guest Editor for the August 2017...
View ArticleWorld Environmental Education Congress 2017
WEEC 2017 in Vancouver, BC, in September, 2017, was an opportunity to present interactive poster papers on Metaphors for Ecological Restoration and Ecological Restoration in Cities.The metaphors...
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Layered Landscapes and Ecological Restoration in Cities Speaker Series
To really make the simple concept of layered landscapes and ecological restoration work in a design appropriate for a given site requires a process of discovery of the site’s past history, current...
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Urban Ecology in Oxford, England and San Francisco, California
Having spent a sabbatical earlier this year with trips to Oxford and San Francisco, Val shares his images and impressions about the urban forest and novel ecosystems he observed in these two landscapes...
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University of Victoria Campus Ecological Restoration Guide
The University of Victoria campus is a unique and important natural area. The campus is in four watersheds that extend in all directions through Victoria, Oak Bay and Saanich. It has several large...
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Resilience Thresholds in Urban Habitats
When returning to sites that we restored it was clear that in some of them the plants had survived but they were not forming communities. We were essentially landscaping with native plants rather than...
View ArticleMoments in Nature: A Journal
Moments in Nature: A Journal is the title of the living document version of Beyond the Pail – a 270 page book with its own ISBN. I continued to add more stories to the original book. To distinguish it...
View ArticleUrban Habitat Quality Index Article
I developed an Urban Habitat Quality Index to help identify a threshold between functional resilient communities and those that have not yet achieved the biodiversity and inter- and intra-species...
View ArticleBackyard Habitat and Biodiversity Article in Pacific Horticulture Magazine
Val wrote a new article on backyard habitat and biodiversity that was published in Pacific Horticulture Magazine here. The article includes a link to a Web Extra on ecological memory. Building on the...
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