{"id":1617,"date":"2018-02-05T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/?page_id=1617"},"modified":"2018-03-13T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:44:05","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OUR \u00a0HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Hancock initiated a study of bald eagles in the middle 1950\u2019s on southern Vancouver Island, expanded this in the 1960\u2019s to an extensive review of the eagle population productivity in sections of the Gulf Islands, Barkley Sound and parts of the Great Bear Rain Forest of central BC.\u00a0\u00a0In more recent years he has repeated some of the Gulf Island surveys but primarily concentrated on the nesting and wintering populations of eagles in the Greater Vancouver \/ Lower Fraser Valley area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The nesting populations in the Lower Fraser Valley<\/strong>\u00a0have gone from 3 pairs found during the early 1960\u2019s immediately following the period when a <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0$2.00 per pair of eagle legs bounty<\/span><\/strong> was paid to fisherman and game wardens by the State of Alaska for killing eagles \u00a0to today when it is estimated that over 500 nesting pairs are now breeding in the valley. By 2018 David has recorded <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">over 400 of these active nests<\/span> <\/strong>in the lower valley. \u00a0This region covers from the north Shore from West Vancouver southward across the mouth of the Fraser River to to Point Roberts Washington then eastward to Hope\u00a0 forming a triangular wedge of\u00a0 about\u00a0\u00a0 ??? square miles ( ??square km)l<\/p>\n<p><strong>The wintering studies primarily focused on two study areas<\/strong>. The first was the <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Harrison-Chehalis River complex<\/span><\/strong> from the Fraser River upstream to include the Chehalis Flats\u00a0 &#8212; the home of the <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and the site of the<\/span><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Chehalis Flats Bald Eagle &amp; Salmon Reserve <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">initiated by the HWF<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>. This region, while it supports nearly a dozen nesting pairs of eagles, is the primarily feeding and loafing area for eagles on the entire west central North American coast. One count on December 18, 2010 yielded 7362 eagles in a 3 km section of the Chehalis Flats. We are working at correlating the\u00a0number of eagles with ecological variables, particularly numbers of salmon on the northern Alaska and BC rivers but also with variations in the onset of winter freezing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The wintering study area has been expanded to cover all the lower Fraser Valley including the \u00a0region surrounding Boundary Bay<\/strong> from the water\u2019s edge inland to include the <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Vancouver Landfill<\/span><\/strong> enclosure north of Highway 99 and bounded to the east including Surrey and to the west by the land bordering the Salish Sea. This area is proving to be not just a prime breeding habitat with 78 active pairs nesting in the City of Delta, 39 active breeding territories in Surrey and another 11 active territories in Point Roberts Washington State, all areas surrounding Boundary Bay and adjacent diked farmlands and the Vancouver Landfill.\u00a0 It is now apparent that this area from Hope to the Salish Sea undoubtedly representative the world\u2019s best year round eagle habitat \u2013 an incredibly human-enriched environment for the greatest sea eagle gatherings in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hancock Wildlife Foundation,<\/strong> with the support of many other local conservation organizations and in cooperation with Simon Fraser University is\u00a0\u00a0now taking on the responsibility of understanding where these <strong>estimated 35,000 wintering eagles <\/strong>come from and where our <strong>1000 nesting birds<\/strong> go to after breeding. The recently launched 10 year <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">BETA Project<\/span> <\/strong>(The Bald Eagle Tracking Alliance) hopes to bring an understanding of these eagle movements, where and what pollutants they are picking up by analyzing the isotopes in the feathers and how they are adapting to our changing ecological times.\u00a0 Please watch and follow the daily movements of these gps tracked eagles as they cover their incredible world. I write this note March 13 as we are tracking our first 5 eagles carrying the gps markers\u00a0 &#8212; and already the most unexpected movement are beginning to be revealed.\u00a0 I find this a most incredible opportunity to finally learn the goings and comings of the world\u2019s largest gatherings of a large eagle.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <strong>Please follow an eagle!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In summary the Hancock Wildlife Foundation<\/strong> is involved in a whole series of <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">educational outreach projects<\/span><\/strong> from introducing <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">live streaming eagles CAMs<\/span> <\/strong>to the world, to undertaking <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">school projects<\/span><\/strong> about understanding ecological sustainability to now allowing individuals and schools to follow these wondrous creatures as we finally find where our eagles come from and go to.\u00a0 These outreach projects are of course based on a number of <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">scientific studies<\/span><\/strong> from censusing wintering eagles, recording breeding distribution and success and now tracking the eagle\u2019s annual movements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Not-for-Profit Foundation depends upon our <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">volunteers<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> helping with the projects<\/span><\/strong>, with assisting managing the WEB site,\u00a0 helping get data onto the site and also getting out to help in attending local events to display our eagle conservation stories \u2013 and to support our funding-raising events to support the CAMs and the scientific projects.\u00a0 The HWF has no employees, only volunteers,\u00a0 though we have to pay for the CAMs and their technical support.\u00a0 David Hancock and the team have also acted in giving <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>\u2018mitigation advice\u2019<\/strong><\/span> when nesting eagle habitat is threatened and often this advice generates a fee or donation that goes to covering our field efforts and developing bald eagle habitat <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>(see Bald Eagle Preserve)<\/strong><\/span>. Also the team undertakes many annual events to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>give illustrated talks <\/strong><\/span>on bald eagles, habitat management and even on <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">how to build eagle nests in your area.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/strong>The balance of the Foundation\u2019s funding is from <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">our supporters making donations<\/span>\u00a0 &#8212; for which we thank you immensely.<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Please think and support an ecologically sustaInable world:\u00a0\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0&#8220;support a nest&#8221;<\/span> ,\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">&#8220;follow an eagle&#8221; ,\u00a0 &#8220;support an educational project&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0or contribute to<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0&#8220;habitat preservation&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>David Hancock<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR \u00a0HISTORY David Hancock initiated a study of bald eagles in the middle 1950\u2019s on southern Vancouver Island, expanded this in the 1960\u2019s to an extensive review of the eagle population productivity in sections of the Gulf Islands, Barkley Sound and parts of the Great Bear Rain Forest of central BC.\u00a0\u00a0In more recent years he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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