From aceska@cue.bc.ca Wed May 26 13:45:31 1993 Date: Tue, 25 May 93 08:04:13 -0700 From: aceska@cue.bc.ca (Adolf Ceska) To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 55 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 55 May 26, 1993 Address: aceska@cue.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ---------------------------------------------------- VICTORIA BOTANY COMING EVENTS May 29, 1993 Scot's Broom removal party in Uplands Park. Cattle Point parking lot, 9:00 a.m. Bring any instrument of mass destruction that would cut, clip, or pull broom. Note from Andy MacKinnon Perhaps you should organize an annual Captain Walter Colquhoun Grant (1822-1861) memorial broom-pull. I've been reading a bit about him recently - Sooke resident 1849-1853, planted broom seeds the British consul in the Sandwich Isles gave him, only 3 plants survived and look at where we are today! Apparently on coming ashore at Cattle Point, Captain Grant mistook Governor James Douglas' cattle for bison, and shot several, incurring the wrath of the Governor. The man deserves to be remembered somehow. [After the announcement of the memorial broom-pull in the Victoria newspaper, I am getting death threats from broom lovers. I am afraid that Cattle Point will become a scene of a civil war. - AC] TEMPORARY POSITION OPEN - BCIT, VANCOUVER, B.C. From: Alison Nicholson Renewable Resources: A temporary instructor is required (Aug 23, 93 to May 27 94) to deliver curriculum in Ecology with the ability to assist in other courses. Qualifications: B.Sc. Forestry or related field, appropriate grad school credentials preferred; a sound knowledge of ecosystem concepts as applied to B.C. as well as biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification. Competition number 93S45 Salary $40,237 to $63,056/yr. Apply to Personnel Employee Relations, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 3700 Willingdon Ave. Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2 fax 604 434 8462. FOOD FROM SALT MARSHES - BRITISH COLUMBIA From: Christine Hodgson [Salicornia shoots used to be a fashionable food of British Columbia Yuppies several years ago (sold as "sea asparagus") and the annual harvests in the late 1980's reached 5 to 7 tons. Since then, the interest in Salicornia has declined. Christine Hodgson, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food gave me the following update - AC] There is an annual quota of 20 tons. Theoretically, each harvester submits harvest logs every week to report the amount harvested. Once the 20 tons is reached, the fishery is closed. There is no limit for each licence. Past harvest of Salicornia has been between 2-5 tons/annum. Each year, there have been fewer applications for licences. For 1993, there are only two persons who have licences, one for each area (one for south Island, one for mid-Island, near Baynes Sound). ARNOLD ARBORETUM IN GOPHER From: TAXACOM The Living Collections catalog of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is now accessible in the Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (huh.harvard.edu). The Arnold Arboretum covers 107 hectares and has one of North America's most diverse collection of New and Old World tree and shrub species. The total number of individual plants tracked in the collection catalog is 14,889 which includes some 5,191 distinct species and varieties that are searchable in the Gopher index. For more information on access to the collection, contact: Living Collections Department, The Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 02130-3519, U.S.A. E-Mail: arnold@huh.harvard.edu Telephone: (617) 524-1718, Facsimilie: (617) 524-1418 NEW PUBLICATIONS - ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM Fenger, M.A. et al. [eds.] 1993. Our living legacy: Proceedings of a Symposium on Biological Diversity. Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C., Canada. 392 p. ISBN 0-7718-9355-8 [paperback]. Cost: CDN$ 14.95. This is a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on biological diversity, held in the spring of 1991 at the Royal B.C. Museum. The contributions were divided into the following sections: Global values of biodiversity, Principles of biodiversity, Diversity in ecosystems of British Columbia, Diversity in risk, Strategies, What can we do?, and Public expectations. The contributions combine general and theoretical views (e.g. Chris Pielou's "Measuring biodiversity: Quantitative measures of quality") with the British Columbia experience (e.g. Jim Pojar's 'Terrestrial diversity of British Columbia"). The publication is available from the Royal Museum Shop, Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8V 1X4, phone (604) 356-0505. Major credit cards accepted. NEW PUBLICATIONS - PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE, VICTORIA, B.C. Mitchell, A.K. 1992. The yews and taxol: a bibliography (1970-1991). Information Report BC-X-338. Forestry Canada, Victoria. 31 p. ISBN 0-662-19896-4 Holmes, T.A. & L. E. Manning. 1992. Recent developments in microscopic techniques for application in forest research. Information Report BC-X-339. Forestry Canada, Victoria. 12 p. ISBN 0-662-19897-2 Both publications can be obtained, free of charge, from the Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Rd., Victoria, B.C., Canada V8Z 1M5. Phone (604) 363-0600