silt newsletters
Explore Savary's natural and cultural history stored in past SILT Newsletters. To open the articles, click on the year.
Saving some of the last of the Savary Meadows
Overview of all SILT Conservation Lands
Summer events 2024
Phil’s Ecology Walks
Savary Island Official Community Plan Review
Chris Harvey - An Inspired Life
25 years of SILT
Stories from past SILT Chairs
Land donation announcement
Findings from three Ecological surveys on SILT properties
Meet the SILT Board and Executive
SILT Summer 2021 Events
The natural forests of Savary and information about the covenant
Charting SILT’s future with strategic plan
Broom bashers protect Savary Island native flowers
Thank you Savary!
Caring for Savary Island
Guiding SILT’s future with a land securement framework
Community steps up to save the heart of Savary Island
How an island came together to save the heart of Savary
LIDAR image of Savary Island
Contorted pod evening-primrose monitoring starts: little trouble, big effort
2016
Tips for controlling the spread of invasive plants
A plan for monitoring rare plants in Coastal Sand ecosystems
Donation of a lot on Vancouver Blvd by Anne Hodgins in memory of her husband Don Hodgins.
Obituary for pivotal SILT donor and mentor Dick Whittall.
Savary Island developer Roger Sahlin files for bankruptcy in Washington state
Broom Bashers tackle Broom Forest at the Meadows
Hartland MacDougall’s leadership helped shape the Savary Island Land Trust Society
2014
The natural history and acquisition by SILT of a wetland lot on Rodgers Road.
Leave a Legacy: How to a create a bequest to SILT in your will.
SILT wins awards
A change in plans: old growth and wetlands protected
What is an ancient tree?
2012
The Johnson Forest campaign: Preserving a Mid-Island Treasure
Snapshots of all lands preserved by SILT.
Court of Appeal dismisses Nature Trust of BC appeal of the partition of DL 1375
A One-Hundred Year History of DL 1375
Frequently Asked Questions for SILT
Power to the People? Discussion and debate about grid power for Savary
Gift for the aquistion of Indian Point lot
Good news for Americans donating land in Canada
2010
Court appeal by the Nature Trust of BC against the subdivision of DL 1375 into eight lots.
Growing recognition of the Unique and Threatened Ecosystems of DL 1375
Why invasive plants are bad news
Results of an archaeological impact assessment of DL 1375
Obituary for Susan Poulos. Savary was her heart and history.
Land Trust Creates MacDougall Forest
The Sand Dunes of Savary Island - an investigation into geological and environmental conditions of formation
Transportation on Savary Island
Biodiversity threatened by increased vehicles
Consideration for parking restrictions around Savary Island wharf and barge site areas
People pulled together to reach for a dream (10 year anniversary)
Invasive species management on Savary
Improved tax benefits for donors of ecologically sensitive land
Why Savary needs an OCP
Trees cut on crown land (includes information of the Crown land perimeter buffer)
Sensitive ecosystems of Savary Island
Why and how to amalgamate (information on lot amalgamation)
Erasing boundaries - Gouin Family donates $50,000 for Savary Island Lot Consolidation
Where does your water come from?
Protecting our shrinking island perimeter
Savary’s living edge: the Crown perimeter
Growing native buffers
Invasive plants
Protecting the buffer zone
2002 - Fall
Protecting biodiversity on Savary
Controlling erosion with native plants
Is hydro-seeding the solution?
A walk in the woods: western white pine
2002 - Spring
Acquisition of 50% undivided interest in DL 1375
Amalgamation
Historic references to the dunes
Savary needs protected land
Ecological reserves
Government researchers have documented Savary’s environmentally sensitive areas