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| ANTHROPOGENIC HABITAT MODIFICATION |
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| Aerial Map Courtesy of the CRD NATURAL AREAS ATLAS
Click on the red areas of the map above to see a close up of the area where habitat loss has been incurred. Where more than one map exists, they are organized from North to South.
Click on the collage above for a tribute to the beautification of Metchosin's shorelines! See this file on the Forage Fish and the hazards from development on beaches in Metchosin.
Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist, Monday, November 05, 2007, Metchosin wants action on reserve toxic soil dump |
| Click on this column for habitat ecology pages: | Click on Images in this column to see Anthropogenic Impact Pages |
 Docks, blasting from Bentinck Island, Ecotourism and Illegal Fishing impacts. |
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| Bentinck Island and Rocky Point- |  Docks and Sea wall bulkhead |
| Church Island and Whirl Bay- |  Military Installation for undertwater explosives testing |
| Beecher Bay |  Loog booming and docks. |
| Pedder Bay- |  Several docks, sewage outfalls parking lot runoff. |
| William Head |  Sewage outfall, docks. |
| Weirs and Taylor Beach- |  Shoreline construction. |
| Albert Head North Beach. |  Sea wall construction |
| Witty's lagoon and Tower Point |  Sea Walls and bulheading on shoreline |
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This site has been created to represent the contiguous ecosystems of the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve/Marine Protected Area and for the use of the Green Blue Spaces sub committee of the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee ( MEASC). |
The website is hosted courtesy of Lester B. Pearson College. Copyright: G.Fletcher Marine Education Consulting, 2008
webmaster: Garry Fletcher, educational director of racerocks.com |