It’s that time of year again, when the harvest season brings exceptional colour to our forests and the air is aromatic and easy to breathe. Now’s the time to prepare your trees for winter snowfall, wind and storms that bring colder temperatures across Southcentral BC....
Trees provide shelter, habitat and food for many species. We are fortunate in BC’s central interior to see a variety of nesting birds, including owls, chickadees, Northern flickers and jays. Steller’s jays like the one pictured here, are in the corvus, or crow family,...
The eastern provinces are well known for sugar maples that produce our famous Canadian maple syrup, but did you know that here in Southwest BC, we have our own species of sap producing maple? Big leaf maples are a medium sized tree that grow to about 30 meters....
British Columbia’s Official Tree The above photo taken near Tofino BC, proves how large the Western Redcedar can grow. As pictured, mature trees can reach soaring heights of 60 meters with broad weight bearing trunks. They grow in nutritious moist soil in forests...
Although there are literally 7.9 billion reasons to save the planet’s trees, we’ve listed here what could be termed as the top three. 1. Breathing. Trees are the lungs of the planet, purifying the air and giving us the oxygen, we breathe. Planting and protecting trees...
