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Project Identification
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| Project Name |
Race Rocks Ecological Overview
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PublicationDate |
April 19,1999 |
Author |
Garry L. Fletcher |
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This publication, Race Rocks Ecological
Overview, Vesion 1.0 has been produced under Contract F1011-9-06 from the
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney,
B.C. ------Copyright 1999 --Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada as
represented by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. |
| Keywords |
Race Rocks, Juan de Fuca , MPA,
Lester B. Pearson College, Garry Fletcher, |
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Originator |
Garry L. Fletcher, faculty member
in biology and environmental Systems at Lester B. Pearson College. |
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Address |
Lester B. Pearson College, 650 Pearson
College Drive, Victoria, B.C. |
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Fax |
(250) 391-2412 |
Phone |
(250) 391-2441 |
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Province |
British Columbia |
Canada |
Postal Code |
V9C 4H7 |
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PublicationPlace |
Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria,
B.C. |
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On September 1, 1998,
the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Honourable David Anderson
proclaimed the creation of the two first Pilot Study Marine Protected Areas
in Canada. Race Rocks ecological reserve was designated as one of those
area. As part of the pilot process following this announcement, the Department
of Fisheries and Oceans has requested that a complete ecological overview
would be done of each of the pilot areas. This metadatabase, the Race Rocks
Ecological Overview was designed to assemble in one place a searchable database
on the ecological research, education and other activities that have occurred
at RaceRocks. Included also are references to the immediate surrounding
marine area of the existing ecological reserve, the eastern entrance of
the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the adjacent shoreline of Vancouver Island,
in particular the peninsula of Rocky Point. The time frame for these ecological
references is from it's use as an area by First Nations people through its
establishment as a light station by the British Navy in 1860, to it's designation
as an Ecological Reserve by the province of British Columbia in 1980, and
up to the present time, 1999, as a pilot Marine Protected Area. Along with
the database, a set of references has been assembled for the primary collection
in the Norman McKee-Lang library at the Lester B. Pearson College of the
Pacific in Victoria. An additional set of reference materials has been made
available to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and CDs of the first version are
being distributed to workshop attendees. |
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Norm Healey of Royal
Roads University has played a major role in the design of the metadatabase
in MSAccess, and in programming the searching capabilities. He has dealt
with problems inherent in my original database design and has patiently
taught me along the way. For the provision of outside databases , I wish
to thank Norm and the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Commission for the
MEAC database, the Staff at the Canadian Conservation Data Centre, for the
addition of the Database from CDC, and Ron Perkins of IOS for the Race Rocks
Salinity and Temperature Database . Sylvia Roach of Lester Pearson College
has provided many hours for the scanning, Optical Character Recognition
and html of the major references. She has also done the OCR and Brailling
for the selected references. Jolanta Lisiewicz, also of Pearson College
has assembled the library references and typed abstracts for inclusion in
the database. Becky Macoun, a former student in Vancouver has done library
research for me there. Chris Blondeau, diving instructor at Pearson College
has helped me to free up time by assisting me with the diving and Race Rocks
Schools program administrative duties that have been ongoing. Angus Matthews
has helped with contacts with First Nations and making his records available,
and the administrative staff of Lester B.Pearson College has provided support
throughout the project. Lester Pearson College students of the Environmental
Systems and Biology Classes have provided me with support throughout the
last two months on this project and will have a major role to play in it's
continued development and updating. Most importantly, my family has been
patient and understanding with my preoccupation in getting the first version
of this database completed. |
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Timeperiod |
1st nations-- to present time |
Status:ongoing |
First Version Completed April, 1999 |
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UTMZone |
10 |
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WestUTM |
459000 |
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UTMNorth |
5348000 |
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EastUTM |
461500 |
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UTMEast |
460500 |
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NorthUTM |
5350800 |
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Timeperiod |
1st nations-- to present |
Status |
First Version Completed April, 1999-
-ongoing |
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