News and Events at YER
Since 2004 YER has provided youth aged twelve to eighteen with one-on-one work experience through ecological restoration methods, ecotherapy practices and mentoring support.
YER is funded by Ministry of Children and Family Development, Comox Valley Regional District and Comox Valley School District.
Through restoring local watersheds with community members, youth gain a sense of worth, belonging and place.
Photo by Ed Carswell.
Millard Nature Park Youth Led Tour
On August 2 nd at 12:00 noon, the public is invited to a youth led tour in Millard Nature Park.
YER Celebrates 20 years of service
On July 1, 2024, Youth and Ecological Restoration (YER) achieves a twenty-year milestone of youth service in the Comox Valley. Since 2004, four hundred and seventy-six youth aged twelve to eighteen have benefited from the one-on-one work experience program. Through ecological restoration, ecotherapy and mentoring, they gain a sense of worth, belonging and place.
Spike Road Park Vegetation Types and Disturbance History 2023
Spike Road Park Vegetation Types and Disturbance History 2023
Heron and Eagle Foraging Monitoring in the K’omoks Estuary 2023
YER Phase II Project June 5-9, 2023
Youth and Ecological Restoration Program Annual Report 2023
Comox Valley School District #71 Annual Report 2023
Youth Lead Eagle and Heron Tour – Royston Seaside Trail – June 9th, 2023 at 1pm
K’omoks Estuary holds immense ecological value for resident and migrating wildlife, and is essential for K’omoks First Nation. Since 2013, research during spring low tides was conducted to count eagles and herons feeding in the estuary. On June 9th at 1:00 pm at Royston Seaside Trail, two youth from Youth and Ecological Restoration Program (YER) will lead a public tour about the eagle and heron surveys.
YER Receives Funding from School District #71
Beginning in the 2021/2022 school year, Youth and Ecological Restoration (YER) was granted funding from Ministry of Education, Mental Health, which came through Comox Valley School District #71. The first year of funding was so successful that YER has been granted funds for the 2022/2023 school year.
Comox Valley School District #71 Annual Report 2022
View or download the YER School District #71 Report for 2022.
Youth and Ecological Restoration Program Annual Report 2022
Youth and Ecological Restoration Program Annual Report 2022 – Visit the post to view this report.
Masters Greenway Invasive Species Mapping and Trampling Measurements 2022
View the Masters Greenway Invasive Species Mapping and Trampling Measurements 2022 Report
Masters Greenway Youth Led Tour
The public is invited to a youth led tour of Masters Greenway on July 5th at 12:00 pm. Tour participants will learn about the natural history and human impacts on the park. Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) and Youth and Ecological Restoration (YER) have partnered to identify and map sites in the park where overuse and invasive species are causing negative effects. Biologist, Tanis Gower will lead the 2022 YER Phase II research project, guiding the youth and providing a final report for the CVRD.
Millard Creek Headwaters Watercourse and Vegetation Mapping 2022
Click here to view this report on Google.
Millard Creek Headwaters Youth and Ecological Restoration Phase II Project
Millard Creek is located south of the City of Courtenay and extends west into Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD), Area A. Millard Piercy Watershed Stewards formed a watershed management plan in 2001. Wendy Kotilla has lived in the upper watershed since 1990, and in 2008 started what has become a long-term database on her one acre property, and the adjoining ten acres.
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