Shauna Doll

Shauna Doll completed her Master’s degree at Dalhousie and has worked in forest conservation in Nova Scotia in the context of climate change. She is the Director on the Forest Conservation Project. You can find her in the lab, or in the forests of the Gulf Islands. More about Shauna.

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News

Conservation updates

All we want for Christmas is an olive-sided flycatcher in a Douglas-fir tree
2020 December 232024 July 8

With the end of 2020 approaching, we need your help in providing BC’s Coastal Douglas-fir forests with a holiday gift that we can all celebrate…

Read More All we want for Christmas is an olive-sided flycatcher in a Douglas-fir tree
Conservation updates

Explore S’DÁYES Flycatcher Forest: Webinar, video and fundraising update
2020 December 102024 July 8

On December 1st, Raincoast and Pender Islands Conservancy announced a match funding campaign in support of protecting S’DÁYES Flycatcher Forest on North Pender Island: we will be gifted $50,000 if we can raise the same amount with individual donations. We are now only $12,000 away from unlocking this $50,000! Can you help bring us to…

Read More Explore S’DÁYES Flycatcher Forest: Webinar, video and fundraising update
Conservation updates

Help permanently protect the S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest this December
2020 December 12024 July 8

One week into the fundraising campaign for the S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest initiative, the Pender Islands Conservancy and Raincoast Conservation Foundation have collectively raised over $62,000 in donations…

Read More Help permanently protect the S,DÁYES Flycatcher Forest this December
Raincoast updates

Measuring tree heights with lasers
2020 October 62024 July 8

Measuring the heights of trees in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone is quite a feat. In mature CDF forests (which, unfortunately, are increasingly hard to find), individual trees can grow up to 90 metres tall! But in the Gulf Islands, where most forests have been cut at some point in the not-so-distant past, second growth…

Read More Measuring tree heights with lasers
Conservation updates

Big tree hunting on Salt Spring Island
2020 September 12024 July 8

Earlier this month I spent two beautiful days on the coast of the Salish Sea, hunting for big trees. I was fortunate to join a research group of passionate “tree people” including Dr. Tara Martin, head of the Conservation Decisions Lab in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC; her Research Assistant, Cassandra Holt; Tony MacLeod from the Salt Spring Conservancy, and Jeff Shatford from the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development to measure some of the tallest trees on Salt Spring Island…

Read More Big tree hunting on Salt Spring Island
Notes from the field

A winter on S,DÁYES in a future ancient forest
2020 July 272024 July 8

The term “management” is often preceded by “resource” and thus implies a process resulting in economically beneficial outcomes. Governance suggests a more comprehensive, more collaborative approach to making land-use decisions…

Read More A winter on S,DÁYES in a future ancient forest
Conservation updates

Protecting the evergreen giants at the edge of the sea
2020 February 192024 July 8

The rainshadow region, extending across the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island from Metchosin to Deep Bay; covering the Gulf Islands, and reaching the Sunshine Coast, has been subject to rampant land conversion–by some estimates up to 50%…

Read More Protecting the evergreen giants at the edge of the sea

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