broadleaf maples, Ruckle Provincial Park, Salt Spring Island

http://www.conservationconnection.bc.ca/index.asp - Conservancy Connection: on-line network of conservation and stewardship organizations working in the Capital Regional District created to provide a way for organizations to foster collaboration and cooperation and to strengthen relationships with one another.
For links to 107 conservation groups - awesome! - go directly to: http://www.conservationconnection.bc.ca/Search.asp#list

www.galianoconservancy.ca/ - The Galiano Conservancy Association, est. 1989, is one of BC's first land trusts, provides environmental education programs, does conservation mapping and ecological restoration, and has an extensive library and resource collection to which the public has access.

http://www.conservationconnection.bc.ca/GroupView.asp?GroupID=89 - Pender Island Conservancy Association: a )To promote awareness, understanding, knowledge, and participation in environmentally friendly land and resource use, to support and assist with preserving and protecting lands of significant importance.

http://saltspring.gulfislands.com/conservancy/ - The Salt Spring Island Conservancy, est. 1995, "works toward continuing improvements in the stewardship of natural habitats and features of the island's lands, freshwaters, and nearby marine environments."

http://www.islandstrustfund.bc.ca/ - The Islands Trust Fund is a conservation land trust established in 1990 to preserve and protect unique ecological or cultural properties in the Islands Trust Area. As one of British Columbia's leading conservation trusts, the Islands Trust Fund works with the community to protect special places inperpetuity through voluntary land donations, conservation covenants, land acquisition and public education.

http://www.hat.bc.ca/ - Habitat Acquisition Trust, a non-profit, regional land trust that protects southern Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands permanently, by three means: land acquisition through purchase or donation; conservation covenants; education and stewardship.