September 28th 2020 On September 28th, 2020, continuing an ongoing seven year project, I took a close-up photograph of the Comox Glacier, showing new rock exposure on all sides of the glacier, and a new big exposed rock right in the middle. This means the glacier will probably continue to melt not only from the…
Ancients of Nimpkish
4k video of the tall trees in the Nimpkish Valley.
BC hydro Dams environmentally could be as bad as the Alberta Oil Sands
Homes are heated by wood, oil, gas, and BC Hydro. The hazards of wood, oil and gas are well known but there is a major environmental cost of BC Hydro’s dams, a lot of it unseen, and little known to the public, which must be included in this discussion. 1- Thousands of productive salmon runs…
Comox Glacier 2013 to 2019 Ice Loss
2013 to 2019 Before and after slider (above ) The photo on the left was taken the 4th week of September, 2013. The photo on the right was taken the 4th week of September, 2019. All the glacier photos have been shot from the bird observation deck on the Dyke Road in Courtenay, BC, about…
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC I want to start with these numbers and graphs from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. One graph shows the CO2 increase from 2016 to 2020, and the other one shows the increase from 1960 to 2020. You are all probably quite familiar with these graphs and measurements…
The No/Fly Movement
Whether you’re on the ground supporting the no-fly movement, or because of COVID-19 your travel life has been a little odd over the last couple of years – maybe you found different or other things to do. Perhaps you discovered a kind of recreation that wasn’t available to previous generations in times of lockdown or…
Where have all the Tyee gone?
If you were a sport fisherman in the Comox Valley before the 1990’s, you know how good the fishing in the Strait of Georgia used to be. Chinook, Coho, and Pink were plentiful, though Tyee [30 pounds plus Chinook] had already been declining in our waters for several years. But even then we heard tales…