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Index for Educational Resources for Marine Ecosystems of Southern Vancouver Island
Coastal Stewardship Coastal Shore Stewardship. A Guide for Planners, Builders, and Developers
green shores
 GREEN SHORES: A Voluntary Rating and Certification
Program for Sustainable Shore Development
Shoreline Structures Environmental Design -
A Guide for Structures along Estuaries and Large Rivers
Riparian Areas
 Riparian Areas Regulation Website (BC MINISTRY of the ENVIRONMENT)
eelgrass Protecting Eelgrass,
CRD CRD --Rocky Shorelines
CRD CRD--Protecting Shorelines and Streamsides
CRD CRD-- Limit the Impacts of Shoreline and Streamside Development
CRD PARKS CRD PARKS -- Witty's Lagoon Regional Park
geobc British Columbia Ministry of the Environment GEOBC Spatial Analysis Branch
Ocean Resources
Bilston Creek The Bilston Creek System
BC Coastal Ecological Sustainability http://racerocks.ca/metchosinmarine/sustainability/Introduction.htm

The key message of this resource is on global marine issues, and the integral role of all humans in maintaining environmentally sustainable marine ecosystems. Examples from the British Columbia marine environment illustrate the principles and these also apply on a global basis. The over-arching concept of this section is marine environmental sustainability. We have an opportunity to provide some substance to what environmental sustainability in the ocean is really about, and to encourage others to a commitment to participate in the process. People of all ages can use the tools to actively participate in making our marine environment sustainable.

Marine Shore
Resource Inventory		 -Western Community Marine Coastline.... Wolf Island to Fort Rodd Hill. 1977 --- 577.51 Bau (Marine Building Library, LB Pearson College).
The marine shoreline of the Western Community within the Capital Regional District of British Columbia stretches southwesterly from Victoria and Esquimalt Harbor to Beecher Bay along the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The shore-study area with which this report is concerned extends from Creyke Pt. near Wolf Island to the northern boundary of Fort Rodd Hill Park. While these boundaries are only eleven miles apart, the intervening high-tide shoreline actually total forty-eight miles including all coves, lagoons, and islands within that reach. (Caliper "walked" at 100ft. intervals).
This preliminary study has concerned itself primarily with an inventory and evaluation of the beach resources in view of the fact that these represent not only the more changeable and least stable component of the coast, but are also of high recreational and esthetic resource value. Especially is this true of the two major drift - sector beach areas, where the integrated geohydraulic system of erosion-transport-accretion has created barrier spits with their fringe habitat and benthic aquatic bio-process environments.
seagrass in BC The Seagrass Conservation Working Group (BC)
Introduced Coastal Species Links to Introduced Coastal Species Including Spartina

Coastal Sand Dune Systems in British Columbia
Coastal Sand Dunes Coastal Sand Dunes: what are they?

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
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