by B.C. Wetlands Species Recovery | Jul 5, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog, Taylor's Checkerspot, Western Painted Turtle |
My name is Liam and I’m currently employed at the The Greater Vancouver Zoo to work with western painted turtles, Oregon spotted frogs, and the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly. I have been working under the supervision of Andrea Gielens, Lead Biologist for...
by B.C. Wetlands Species Recovery | Jun 28, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, LoyaltyOne, Oregon Spotted Frog |
Having finished my third week working with the Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife Project, I’m starting to get the hang of things! I am learning all about the best ways to care for the headstarting Oregon spotted frogs, western painted turtles, and...
by Andrea Gielens | Apr 11, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog |
The Oregon Spotted Frog (OSF) program and Wildlife Preservation Canada have been working to save this species in its last remaining populations in BC. We’ve been at it for many years and this is our first year trying a larger scale captive breeding effort. Our...
by Andrea Gielens | Mar 24, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog |
The past two days have been very busy for the Oregon Spotted Frog Program in Vancouver. The summer of 2016 did not provide us with warm enough temperatures at the right times to allow our frogs to grow large enough for release in the fall. As a result we kept them...
by Andrea Gielens | Mar 8, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog, Pollinators, Taylor's Checkerspot |
With snow falling today, in what seems like an endless snowstorm on the west coast, we transferred our hibernating Taylors Checkerspot Caterpillars into a slightly warmer room to help convince them that spring is on the way. These unusual weather conditions are...
by Andrea Gielens | Feb 14, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog, Taylor's Checkerspot, Western Painted Turtle |
It has been a long and uncharacteristically cold and snowy winter for us here in British Columbia. Normally any snow at all is rare, and this year we saw two storms each giving us multiple feet of snow. This led to a much busier season for us in the captive head...
