Restoration Project Articles and Surveys

A partnership restoration project has rejuvenated the bog, mainly by controlling fluctuations in water levels, and eliminating the masses of recent willow growth which was a major cause of water loss through evapo-transpiration.

2006

Rithet’s Bog: a Brief History of the Restoration Project and Update on Recent Events

The Victoria Naturalist, Vol. 63.2, Sept/Oct 2006 – Sharon Hartwell
2006

2003

Rithet’s Bog – Looking Good!

BARA Bugle (Broadmead Area Residents Association Newsletter), Spring 2003– Sharon Hartwell
2003

Something to Chirp About – Hard work revives Rithet’s Bog, a once dying ecosystem

Times Colonist, May 5, 2003 – Jack Knox

Weir One Year Old! The Rithet’s Bog restoration project

BARA Bugle (Broadmead Area Residents Association Newsletter), Fall 2003 – Sharon Hartwell

2002

Rithet’s Bog update – Restoration work primed to begin this summer!

BARA Bugle (Broadmead Area Residents Association Newsletter), Spring 2002
– Sharon Hartwell
2002

Weir to Stabilize Water Levels in Beloved Bog – Joint project is meant to reverse adverse impacts of development

Saanich News, Sept 11, 2002 
– Vern Faulkner

2001

Rithet’s Bog – Where has all the water gone, and what is being done about it?

BARA Bugle (Broadmead Area Residents Association Newsletter), Spring 2001
– Sharon Hartwell
2001

If the Bog Has Its Way

Times Colonist, September 2, 2001 – Jody Paterson