Date: Jan 13, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Category: Slideshow
Hans will start with the plants we can find everywhere in the alpine zone of the prevailing volcanic rocks of Vancouver Island. He will proceed to less common plants, still on volcanic rock types, then describe how he and his friends started to discover that it is the limestones where the largest diversity in alpine plants and rare species are found on the island. Almost every one of these limestone ‘islands’, widely scattered in a matrix of volcanic rocks, has its own plant rarities. And we are far from having discovered them all. Can this be surpassed? Amazingly, it can, by crossing just 35 kilometres of marine waters to the Olympic Peninsula! Here we meet not only with plants that are unique (endemic) to the Olympic Mountains, but also with many alpine plants that are absent from the Island, and can only be seen in the Coast and Rocky Mountains in interior British Columbia.
You may have heard Hans name as he has famously collaborated with Pojar & MacKinnon on ‘Alpine Plants of BC’ book, 2013. It will be an honour to have such an expert in Alpine plants educate us on the life that we see around us in the mountains and to brighten up an otherwise dark, rainy, cold time of the year with some colour!
Sadly, due to the new Provincial Health Regulations from late December 2021, we are not able to meet in person at Swan Lake in January. So this slideshow will return to a Zoom format starting at 7 PM. A Zoom Invitation will be sent out to all the membership twice prior to the slideshow….about 1 week in advance and either the day before or day of the slideshow.