MOSQUITO MITIGATION EFFORTS ON THETIS

After a particularly bad summer in 2014, TIRRA has been researching what we can do to resolve the problem or at least improve the situation in 2015 and beyond. Below are some useful documents and links:

• Following on the May 30th Special Meeting, which voted to apply for a Pest Management Plan from the government, we also agreed that any such management process should be integrated with a broader, long-term plan to restore and maintain a healthy and balanced wetland system. Biologist Ann Eriksson has shared the following links:

      - Construct a Healthy Wetland - Destroy Mosquitoes
      - Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management Summary
      - The website of Tom Biebighauser, a wildlife biologist for the USDA Forest Service who consults on these issues. He has advised the Cowichan Land Trust who are doing a number of wetland conservation projects.

• Report to the Annual General Meeting of TIRRA, March 26, 2015, by Stu Downey
• D G Regan & Associates Environmental Services: "Thetis Island - field visit and action plans" - 23 March 2015
• Webpage on the Thetis Blog which includes discussion and input by islanders

And some background on earlier attempts to do the same thing:

• Some articles from the Thetis Island Quarterly, Summer 2003
• A naturalist's notes on another bad summer, 1995

 

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