This Saturday we held our second planting at Avalon Pond. We were joined by 25 volunteers who made quick work of the planting! This site has been completely transformed in just over a year from invasive blackberry to a biodiverse understory of Indigenous species.
Thanks to donated plants from the @vanparkboard , we planted, two species of willow, bunchberry, bracken fern, lady fern and red osier dog wood.
We were happy to be joined by Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Tom Digby at the end of our session to share the restoration work we have been doing!
Our fall planting events have been made possible by funding from @naturecanada_ bird friendly cities grant, the @habitatconservationtrust community grant and the Champlain Heights Community Association.
Thanks to volunteer Veronica Stamm for these amazing photos!
Have you checked out the new Everett Crowley Park display in the @champlainheightscc ? The interactive display created by nature educator Cole includes a timeline of ECPC and the park, interactive map of ECPC’s stewardship sites, and wildlife found in the park!
The timeline for this was created by Carla and Celina, two ECPC volunteers, and funding was given to support the display by the Champlain Heights Community Association.
As always, community member and photographer Richard Luk captured some beautiful photos at our most recent bird walk.
On a sunny Sunday morning, the park was alive with birds big and small. It was great to see three eagles flying low, the Blue Listed Great Blue Heron using the Avalon Pond for a nap, and the Anna’s Hummingbirds establishing their winter homes!
1. Bald Eagle
2. Great Blue Heron
3. Anna’s Hummingbird
4. Golden Crowned Kinglet
5. Song Sparrow
We are grateful to @naturecanada_ Bird Friendly Cities Grant for supporting our bird events!
This evening Willoughby Arevalo, a frequent friend of the park, mycologist, nature educator and artist guides us through a mushroom adventure!
When you stop and look, Everett Crowley Park is alive and rich with fungi, from big stink horns to smaller candlesnuff.
Can you name any? 🍄🍄🟫
UPDATED TIMES: The remainder of our fall programming is out! Join us for planting, mushroom walks, wreath making and more!
Sign up via the EcPC website (ecpcstewards.ca) or visit the link in our bio.
A great turn out at our second public Indigenous species planting event in fall 2025.
We planted Willow, hardback, salal, deer ferns and lady ferns in Choris Frog Corner, our newest stewardship area.
Join us at our next even on November 8th - link in bio!
This event was possible thanks to funding from @habitatconservationtrust , Champlain Heights Community Association and @naturecanada_ .
Highlights from our recent bird survey and bird walk!
Thanks to Richard Luk for these beautiful photos!
1. Hawk - can you ID this?
3. House finch
4. Golden crowned sparrow
5 Northern Flicker
6. Hermit Thrush
We are so excited to be supported by @naturecanada_ bird friendly city grant to fund these events!
Nestled in the heart of Champlain Heights Vancouver, Everett Crowley Park is a unique urban forest home to amphibians, birds, and of course our lovely volunteers!
Our 2025 planting season has begun! Join us for an upcoming planting event, to help restore this beautiful park! Sign up for an event via the link in our bio!
We look forward to seeing you out there 💚
Lots of smiling faces, braving the rain, and getting stuck into our first 2025 Fall planting!
With the help of 18 volunteers we planted over 200 Indigenous plants today at our Avalon Pond site.
Planting is a great time to come together, celebrate the work we have done to prepare the site, share food, connect with the land and give something back!
This is the first session of many fall planting events, so if you missed out, find more dates via the link in our bio.
We would love to extend a huge thank you to the organisations who have supported and funded these planting events: @vanparkboard , @champlainheightscc (CHCA), @naturecanada_ and @habitatconservationtrust .
Last week we ran an intro to water monitoring session in Everett Crowley Park!
Thanks to the Community Grant from @habitatconservationtrust we were able to purchase a @the_waterrangers kit. This is a user friendly kit to get baseline information such as dissolved oxygen and pH. This is a great way to connect with the water and find out more about what is going on in the Everett Crowley Park Ecosystem!
Thank you to @earthandcompany as always for leading a beautiful plant walk in Everett Crowley Park. Lori’s knowledge and ways of seeing showed us to open up to what is directly around us, and encouraged us to rethink how we interact with natural landscapes, especially the ones here in our backyard!
Every plant and animal can teach us something, from the Pacific chorus frog, to the Douglas fir trees to the roses!
Thank you to Lori and to everyone who spent their afternoon in the park with us!
We were fortunate enough to have funding from the @habitatconservationtrust to fund this Indigenous led walk, along with many other events happening this fall!
Join LoriAnn Bird and ECPC this Saturday afternoon for an indigenous led nature walk.
Lori is a Metis herbalist and educator, and will share on her knowledge of plants and their Indigenous uses thought time.
Register via the link in our bio.
Thank you to @wildcraftedherbals for facilitating a beautiful plant paint making workshop where we turned invasive English ivy into paint!
Dianna taught us about the importance of using the materials around us and about embracing the uncertainty of colour and outcome!
Interested in eco-arts? Our next workshop is a Wreath Making workshop - sign up via the link in the bio!
Thanks to everyone who came out to our stewardship session this morning!
With planting just around the corner, we are going over our stewardship sites with a fine tooth comb to remove any remaining invasive species.
The Avalon Pond south site is looking lush and alive with the fall rain - swipe for a fresh baby fern 🌱
Join us for our fall planting events twice a month, and help our stewardship sites come full circle!
We are excited to have Willoughby Arevalo back to lead us on another mushroom walk!
This is an awesome opportunity to learn about the science and wonder of fungi, from an expert mycologist!
Sign up via the link in our bio!
We are so excited to announce our fall planting events!
Join the Everett Crowley Park Committee for four planting sessions in October and November.
This is a great chance to make a huge impact in your local neighbourhood and gain hands on experience with habitat restoration work.
At all of our stewardship events we provide a light lunch and all materials and training required for free!
Sign up whilst spots last via the link in our bio or through the QR code!
This year we are hugely appreciative to be supported by the @vanparkboard who have donated over 1,000 plants, as well as @naturecanada_ and @habitatconservationtrust who funded all of our planting events.
In August our ECPC committee and stewardship sub committee embarked on an ecological corridor site visit to explore the diverse ecosystems surrounding Everett Crowley Park.
The walk followed the Fraser River Shorefront, exploring a series of new mini parks. The team wanted to explore any potential for restoring the ecological corridor that runs from Everett Crowley Park to the Fraser River and to learn about further opportunities for connectivity.
Interested in being a part of a team that helps to make decisions and recommendations for stewardship in Everett Crowley Park? Join our stewardship sub committee! Link in bio!
Just a couple of happy faces from environmental stewardship this past Saturday.
As we move into fall, we are ready to welcome the planting season! This means that we need more help than ever to prepare our sites for the 1000 Indigenous plants that we will be planting across our 5 stewardship sites.
Want to lend a hand with planting or site preparation, follow the link in our bio to sign up for our twice monthly stewardship sessions!
ECPC Stewardship Manager, Evie, and ECPC committee member, Cole, were lucky enough to attend the @bcwildlifefederation wetland keepers workshop in Vancouver this week.
This was a great opportunity to learn about urban wetland restoration and creation projects in the city. Thank you to @bcwildlifefederation for hosting this workshop, and to @vanparkboard and @cityofvancouver for sharing their wetland creation plans for the city!
The workshop was followed by an Indigenous Knowledge Share dinner where @cedarcopperwoman and @cs.design.photography shared on the importance of resilience in urban ecosystems. They highlighted the intersection of Indigenous practice, biodiversity and climate resilience, and how to raise the next generation of stewards! Thank you @cedarcopperwoman and @cs.design.photography!
Thank you to @ubcforestry students and bat research experts, Brandon Weigand, Aaron Aguirre and Matt Mitchell for guiding us on a bat walk! They walked us through different species in the park, monitoring techniques, habitat preferences and threats and potential solutions to bat populations!
This was a unique opportunity to spend time in the park in the evening hours, and we were all amazed (researchers included) by the quantity and diversity of bats using the park!
If this is an event that sounds appealing to you, sign up for our new series - Sounds of the Night - link in our bio!
