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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.
The link on the left side takes you to the reference for the sector and the specific part of that file where the impacts are explained in more detail.

Where more than one map exists, they are organized from North to South.

anthropogenic habitat change

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.





FURTHER REFERENCES:

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

Race Rocks Archipelago-

 anthropogenic impactDocks, blasting from Bentinck Island, Ecotourism and Illegal Fishing impacts.
Bentinck Island and Rocky Point- anthropogenic impactDocks and Sea wall bulkhead
Church Island and Whirl Bay- anthropogenic impactMilitary Installation for undertwater explosives testing
Beecher Bay anthropogenic impactLoog booming and docks.
Pedder Bay- anthropogenic impactSeveral docks, sewage outfalls parking lot runoff.
William Head anthropogenic impactSewage outfall, docks.
Weirs and Taylor Beach- anthropogenic impactShoreline construction.
Albert Head North Beach. Albert Head anthropogenic impactSea wall construction
Witty's lagoon and Tower Point Wittys Lagoon human impactSea Walls and bulheading on shoreline

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