Hug a tree for science!
Have you ever seen a big tree and wondered what you could do to ensure it can be protected for…
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Job posting: Big tree intern
The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry is a community science initiative managed by Raincoast’s Forest Conservation Program (FCP). It is…
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Tree projects across BC are coming together to advance research objectives and protections
Big trees are an iconic feature of the Pacific Northwest. Though they range in species types and geographical locations, something…
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The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry is helping property owners connect with the forest
The Pender Islands Big Tree Registry has grown significantly over the past year. We now have over 100 trees registered….
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Conserving endangered Gulf Islands forests
The Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) bio-geoclimatic zone is the smallest and most endangered of 16 such zones in British Columbia. According…
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Ethics of Making the Location of Big Trees Accessible to the Public
Pender Island and big trees Pender Islands are located within the rapidly diminishing Coastal Douglas-fir biogeoclimatic zone. These islands, along…
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Interview: Big tree registries, BC’s logging practices and Nerdy about Nature
Last month, Raincoast released a video series demonstrating how to measure trees and nominate them to Big Tree Registries across…
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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!…
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A future for the Gulf Islands’ forests
Raincoast’s newest initiative aims to protect Coastal Douglas-fir forests and associated habitats across the Gulf Islands. These are some of…
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Tech change on our Pender Islands Big Tree project
We’ve had to make changes to the way our Pender Islands Big Tree project is set up on iNaturalist. We…
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Measuring tree heights with lasers
Measuring the heights of trees in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone is quite a feat. In mature CDF forests (which,…
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Pender Islands Big Tree Registry
Do you have a big tree in your back yard? If so, get ready to nominate it for the Pender…
