The Pender Islands Big Tree Blitz
A successful day of big tree hunting.
Field Notes from a summer of big trees
Big tree registries inspire a deeper understanding of forests, communities, and the relationships between them.
Big tree registries offer an opportunity for community engagement and conservation this summer
Big trees instill awe and connection in the human communities that surround them.
Pender Island Big Tree Blitz
Join Raincoast and the Pender Islands Conservancy for a morning of big tree hunting on Pender Islands.
Introducing the British Columbia Big Tree Project map
Raincoast’s Big Tree Project map will help connect BC-based community scientists with the big tree monitoring project nearest them.
Land protection in some of Canada’s most threatened terrestrial habitats
Raincoast established the Forest Conservation Program (formerly known as the Gulf Islands Forest Project) in 2019 with the intention of exploring pathways to strengthen protection of the rare and threatened habitats characteristic to the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, particularly on the Gulf Islands. However, land in this region is disproportionately under private ownership, unlike the…
Tree projects across BC are coming together to advance research objectives and protections
These local giants inspire connection to forests, and nature, and encourage people to reflect on their relationships with the land more broadly.
The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry is helping property owners connect with the forest
We asked one property owner to share her experience with the Big Tree Registry.
Ethics of making the location of big trees accessible to the public
The benefits and implications of unrestricted access to tree location need to be carefully considered.
Measuring trees – introducing our new “how-to” video series
We are thrilled to be releasing video tutorials on how to measure trees that we co-created with Nerdy About Nature! We’ve learned so much from Ross Reid, the ‘nerd’ behind Nerdy About Nature, so when we were thinking about making this video resource, teaming up with him to co-create tutorial videos on how to measure trees seemed like the perfect idea.