Citizen scientists are observing and documenting how climate change is hitting Vancouver Island’s forests and plant species.
Until about 10 years ago, when the large red chestnut tree outside Dorothee Kieser’s living room window flowered, it would be covered in beautiful yellow swallowtail butterflies.
The data-collection project is now spread out across seven sites, with six active on Vancouver Island. He’s been part of the program for five years, and he knows the data-collection route and each of the plant specimens like the back of his hand. Murdock’s wife, Ronda Murdock, is right alongside him, displaying equal knowledge on the route as the group, joined by recent addition Judy Gibson, presses forward around the roots and felled logs littering the path.
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