Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 21:33:36 GMT -8
Gord, have you heard back from Wayne Weber? I hope he can clarify this for us. The map itself at the Nature Vancouver link posted in the previous message on this thread does show its eastern boundary along Bradner Road, but the adjacent link on that same Nature Vancouver website clearly links to the 2013 checklist which seems to be the only checklist available on that website. (Maybe I didn't search widely enough.) I don't disagree that the 2013 checklist is somewhat outdated, and I'm sure Al and Jude would be among the first to say we need a new one, but that doesn't mean a newer one must be available.
I'm not aware of any 2016 Vancouver checklist, though the fact that 2013 checklists were being given away free at a recent volunteer appreciation event I attended might possibly indicate that a new edition is in the works. I know Jude is working on updating another checklist, but not to my knowledge the Vancouver area one. That 2013 checklist says on the inside of its cover that the checklist area extends east to 122 degrees 30 minutes (260th St). I have a copy of the 1998 Vancouver checklist and its inside cover says 122 degrees, 30 minutes (Bradner Road). Go figure.
It was pretty widely believed some years ago that Nature Vancouver (actually back then it was VNHS - Vancouver Natural History Society) planned to, or did, extend the eastern boundary of their checklist area to Bradner Road specifically to take in the good species that were being recorded on the Bradner Road property of Chris Buis (not least by Glenn Ryder, who lived on that property for a time). I don't know when that actually happened, or even if it did happen, but the statement in the 1998 checklist would seem to confirm it did, and quite a few years ago. Of course Chris now lives on a different property and the whole area is no longer as fruitful a hotspot. (That's not Chris' fault.)
In any case, I find the whole thing confusing, and I for one would be interested to have clarification.
Stan Olson
Abbotsford
I'm not aware of any 2016 Vancouver checklist, though the fact that 2013 checklists were being given away free at a recent volunteer appreciation event I attended might possibly indicate that a new edition is in the works. I know Jude is working on updating another checklist, but not to my knowledge the Vancouver area one. That 2013 checklist says on the inside of its cover that the checklist area extends east to 122 degrees 30 minutes (260th St). I have a copy of the 1998 Vancouver checklist and its inside cover says 122 degrees, 30 minutes (Bradner Road). Go figure.
It was pretty widely believed some years ago that Nature Vancouver (actually back then it was VNHS - Vancouver Natural History Society) planned to, or did, extend the eastern boundary of their checklist area to Bradner Road specifically to take in the good species that were being recorded on the Bradner Road property of Chris Buis (not least by Glenn Ryder, who lived on that property for a time). I don't know when that actually happened, or even if it did happen, but the statement in the 1998 checklist would seem to confirm it did, and quite a few years ago. Of course Chris now lives on a different property and the whole area is no longer as fruitful a hotspot. (That's not Chris' fault.)
In any case, I find the whole thing confusing, and I for one would be interested to have clarification.
Stan Olson
Abbotsford