Events

The Future of Garry Oaks & Associated Ecosystems
DATE: Tuesday, June 7, 2016
TIME: 7:00-9:00PM
LOCATION: UVic, Rm C118, David Strong Building
(Evening parking is available on-site for $2.50 after 6PM)

Please join GOMPS (Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society) for a short AGM followed by refreshments & then a facilitated discussion on the evolution of our charitable society & how we might renovate our role in the struggle to preserve Garry oak ecosystems. In this new millennium, NGOs, charities & societies such as ours are seeing a decline in membership, funding & local participation – what can we do to reverse this trend?

If you care about British Columbia’s only native oak & its most threatened ecosystems, please join this vital community discussion on the future of GOMPS – all interested public & issue-focused groups welcome! We need your input:

• What role GOMPS can, could & should play in Victoria’s natural areas scene?
• In which direction should we focus our efforts?

If you know of anyone else with interest, passion or expertise in the fields of conservation, biology and natural areas protection, please extend this invitation to them.

Do you have any questions for our Directors? You can email us or use our Contact Form on the website.

Your voice is important as is your support and we hope to see at our AGM!

Our future is in your hands!

GOMPS Board of Directors

Join our Society Tuesday May 26, 2015 at the University of Victoria for our Annual General Meeting. 

The meeting will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the David Strong Building, Room C118. 

More details are in the image below or click here to download a PDF copy of our Annual General Meeting poster for display in your office, favourite coffee shop or at your community centre!!

The Minutes and Reports from our 2013 Annual General Meeting.

Click here to get the PDF version of the AGM 2013 Minutes.

The GOMPS Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday May 6th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Goward House in the “Theatre Room”.

Guest speaker will be Dr. Richard Hebda of the R.B.C. Museum. His presentation, “New Insights in Climate Change: Adaptations and Oak Ecosystems”, will illustrate latest impacts of climate change and their likely impacts on Garry oak ecosystems. Prepare for a lively discussion!

Richard Joseph Hebda (Short Biography 2013)

Dr. Richard Hebda has been Curator (Botany and Earth History) at the Royal British Columbia Museum 34 years and adjunct faculty at the University of Victoria for 28 years. He curated Climate and Climate Change exhibit at the museum and was the first faculty coordinator of the Restoration of Natural Systems Program at UVIC. He studies vegetation and climate history of BC, climate change and its impacts, ecology and origins of Garry oak and alpine ecosystems and botany of grasses. Richard Hebda is (co)author of 120+ scientific papers 250+ popular articles on native plants and climate change; (co) author/editor of several books and major reports including recently published Saanich Ethnobotany. He appears often on TV and radio, and in newspaper interviews.  He recently received the Queen’s Jubilee medal for his work in palaeontology.