Newsletters

Issue #31, Spring 2025

Issue #30, Fall 2024

Issue #29, Summer 2024

Issue #28, Spring 2024

Issue #27, Fall 2022

Issue #26, Spring 2022

Issue #25, Winter 2021

Issue #24, Summer 2021

Issue #23, Spring 2021

Issue #22, Fall 2020

Issue #21, Summer 2020

Issue #20, Spring 2020

Issue #19, Fall 2019

Issue #18, Summer 2019

Issue #17, Spring 2019

Issue #16, Fall 2018

Issue #15, Summer 2018

Issue #14, Spring 2018

Issue #13, Fall 2017

Issue #12, Summer 2017

Issue #11, Spring 2017

Issue #10, Fall 2016

Issue #9, Summer 2016

Issue #8, Spring 2016

Issue #7, Fall 2015

Issue #6, Summer 2015

Issue #5, Spring 2015

Issue #4, Winter 2014

Issue #3, Summer 2014

Issue #2, Spring 2014

Issue #1, Winter 2013


Seen In Passing:

Seen in Passing #7 – January, 2021

Seen in Passing #6 – November, 2020

Seen in Passing #5 – July 8, 2020

Seen in Passing #4 – May 17, 2020

Seen in Passing #3 – May 3, 2020

Seen in Passing #2 – April 27, 2020

Seen in Passing #1 – April 20, 2020


Full List of Newsletters:

Issue #30, Fall 2024

  • Plants: weaving an intricate web of life
  • Bee Talk
  • Something Fishy
  • Invasive Species: European Green Crab
  • Ten acre Marine Island Protected
  • Mt. Trematon Biodiversity Study
  • Holly Haul
  • Salish Sea Clean up Crew (The Salish Shes)
  • High Tide
  • Seen in Passing

Issue #29, Summer 2024

  • The Songbird’s Secret
  • Native Plants: Oceanspray
  • The Ecological Reserve June hike to find flowering Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Housing and Conservation
  • New Directors
  • Thinking About Wildfire and Risk on Lasqueti
  • Connecting the Future: a journey of recovery, discovery, and community
  • New Books
  • Seen in Passing

Issue #28, Spring 2024

  • Focus on Wetlands
  • Labrador Tea – A Rare Wetlands Plant on Lasqueti
  • Book Reviews
  • Frogs in the Wetlands
  • Marine Protected Areas: A Tool for Conservation on the BC Coast
  • Voices for the Islands
  • Lasqueti Fungus Fest with Andy MacKinnon
  • Beavers and Oysters are Helping Restore Lost Ecosystems with their Engineering Skills
  • Seen in Passing

Issue #27, Fall 2022

  • Intertidal Landscape of Xwe’etay
  • Seen in Passing
  • LINC’s Mission Statement
  • Community BioBlitz at Mt. Trematon
  • Mt. Trematon Biodiversity Study Update
  • Native Plants: Juncus effusus (Common Rush, Soft Rush, Swampgrass)
  • Powdery Mildew on BigLeaf Maple
  • LINC Update and News of Interest: Squitty Bay Day
  • Issue #31, spring 2025
    • Cetaceans – From Beast to Beloved
    • Shining a Light on the Hidden World of Plancton
    • More About Fire on Lasqueti
    • Bufflehead
    • Herring – A keystone species in the Salish Sea
    • Upcoming LINC events
    • Seen in Passing

    Our spring Newtletter is here>

  • Issue #26, Spring 2022
    • Seablush
    • Western Toad Profile
    • Protected Areas Around Lasqueti and Goals for the Future
    • Book Review: Finding the Mother Tree
    • Shifting Our Baseline: Beavers Move onto the Osland Reserve
    • Point Young Update
    • Upcoming Events
    • Seen in Passing
  • Issue #25, Winter 2021
    • Krummholdz at Young Point
    • Trees
    • Mt. Trematon Study Update and Big Thank You
    • Forest and Climate Change Adaptation
    • Cattails
    • Book Review: Mushrooms of British Columbia
    • Restoration at Osland & Salish View Reserves
    • Community Survey Highlights
    • Seen in Passing
  • Issue #24, Summer 2021
    • Butterflies and Bees on Lasqueti
    • Five year Biodiversity Study at Mt. Trematon Nature Reserve
    • New Chapter in Bat Conservation
    • Book Review: To Speak for the Trees
    • Cedar Dieback in Coastal BC
    • Salmonberry-Rubus Spectabilis
    • Seen in Passing
  • Issue #23, Spring 2021
    • Spring Birds Migrating
    • Salish View Trail Complete
    • Christmas Bird Counts 2020, 2019, 2010, 2003
    • Herring: A Cultural Keystone species in the Strait of Georgia
    • Book Review: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humbolt’s New World
    • Mushrooms & Lichens found in the winter/spring on Lasqueti and their uses
    • Seen in Passing
  • Seen in Passing #7
  • Issue #22, Fall 2020
    • Marine restoration
    • Pandemics and Wildlife
    • Shifting Baselines
    • Crabapple
    • Wetlands, and more
  • Seen in Passing #6
  • Issue #21, Summer 2020
    • Ferns on Lasqueti and surrounding islands
    • Bur Chervil
    • Saskatoons
    • Jedediah Island Protected 2 years
    • SeaChange’s work on Lasqueti
  • Seen in Passing #5
  • Seen in Passing #4
  • Seen in Passing #3
  • Issue #20, Spring 2020
    • Spring Wildflowers
    • Native and Invasives
    • Ways of Giving (Bequests in a will)
    • Bat update
    • 120th Bird Count Report
  • Seen in Passing #2
  • Seen in Passing #1
  • Issue #19, Fall 2019
    • Wild Species Protected at Salish View
    • Native and Invasive Plants found on Lasqueti
    • Update on Bats
    • A Huge thank you to all
    • Thank you Poster to donors for Salish View
  • Issue #18, Summer 2019
    • The Western toads of Lasqueti Island
    • Native & Invasive Plants (Oceanspray & Yellow Flag Iris)
    • Leithen M’Gonigle’s Bee Talk
    • Conservation Options
  • Issue #17, Spring 2019
    • Climate Change and What we can Do
    • Bird Count & other Citizen Science
    • Salish View update
  • Issue #16, Fall 2018
    • Birds in Winter
    • Update on fencing at Osland Reserve
    • Salish View Opportunity
  • Issue #15, Summer 2018
    • Lasqueti’s Forests – a rarity
    • The Value of Trees
    • Salish View – some answers to common questions
  • Issue #14, Spring 2018
    • Great Blue Herons – Sentinels of our Coast
    • Christmas Bird Count
    • Fundraising for Salish View!
  • Issue #13, Fall 2017
    • How Healthy are Lasqueti’s Forests?
    • Beach Clean up
  • Issue #12, Summer 2017
    • Sea Grass Studies
    • Species at Risk on Lasqueti
    • Forage Fish Map
  • Issue #11, Spring 2017
    • Christmas bird count
    • Lasqueti Island Forage Fish Team
    • Beavers & their habitat on the Gulf Islands
    • More on bats
  • Issue #10, Fall 2016
    • We’ve Got Bats
    • Squitty Bay Day
    • Microplastics and clean up of our oceans
  • Issue #9, Summer 2016
    • Forage Fish Matters
    • Watching & Conserving Butterflies
    • Got Bats?
  • Issue #8, Spring 2016
    • Herring – A Troubling Trajectory
    • Pollinators
    • Christmas Bird Count
  • Issue #7, Fall 2015
    • Alligator Lizards
    • Mt Trematon protection
  • Issue #6, Summer 2015
    • Sea Stars
    • 2014-15 Annual Report
    • Osland Nature Reserve
  • Issue #5, Spring 2015
    • Newts & Pacific Chorus Frogs
    • Osland Nature Reserve
    • Spring Birds
  • Issue #4, Winter 2014
    • Christmas Bird Count
    • 2014 Report
    • Protection with a Conservation Covenant
  • Issue #3, Summer 2014
    • Western Purple Martin
    • Herring in the Bay
  • Issue #2, Spring 2014
    • Rigid Apple Moss SAR
    • Map of protected areas on Lasqueti, Crown lands
  • Issue #1, Winter 2013
    • Introductory issue
    • Why conservation
    • Projects & achievements to date