My Week at Cedar Coast
I came to Cedar Coast with an open mind, not knowing what to expect and was really inspired by the work that was being undertaken and the vision and passions of the team there. I was...
Learning to Grow: Youth Empowerment at Cedar Coast Field Station
By Andrew Wood As Cedar Coast continues to grow as an organization we are able to welcome and celebrate many firsts. In the past twelve months we have been able to celebrate our first fully...
Raincoast Education Society runs Vargas Overnight Summer Camps!
It was a pleasure partnering with the Raincoast Education Society to bring two, 6 day summer camps to Vargas Island this July! Raincoast Education Society summer students Brittany, Ava and Christine worked with Taylor, Cedar...
Pressing Plants of Vargas Island
Cedar Coast Field Station has started a Herbarium! We are pressing over a dozen plant specimens and hope to soon start a binder collection of pressed plants. This will provide visitors with a representation of...
Surge Narrows School Retreat (June 18th – 22nd, 2018)
Surge Narrows school came out June 18-22 to have a retreat in a beautiful location, after finishing their schoolwork for the year. The children, parents and teacher had the chance to find out about what...
National Post Interview
National Post interview with Simon Nessman on the Cedar Coast Field Station. “Trading New York catwalks for the quiet of Clayoquot Sound, Simon Nessman found a seemingly unlikely passion project: an ecological field station on...
Meet our two Canada Summer Jobs Students!
Dan Hunter Research Technician, Summer Student 2018 I am a 21-year-old student from Ottawa, Ontario. Currently, I am studying biology at the University of Victoria with a focus on ecology and evolution. I am very...
Campbell River Mirror Article
Campbell River Mirror newspaper article on Grade 12 students from Carihi secondary school who were given an experiential educational opportunity: a trip to the Cedar Coast Field Station on Vargas Island. “Carihi students given a...
Words by our spring volunteer, Lena
I came to the Cedar Coast Field Station as a stranger; I had just finished my Geography degree at the University of Victoria and did not know where to go and what to do. I...
Vargas Island Bog Flora
In the heart of Vargas Island, just beyond Cedar Coast property, in the adjacent Vargas Island Provincial Park is a bog, intersected by the Ahous Trail. Bogs are not often the most attractive ecosystems to...