Comox Valley Nature is starting its 2018 end-of-summer monthly free public nature walk series with a walk at Rosewell Creek Provincial Park Sunday, Aug. 26.
As part of its educational mandate Comox Valley Nature invites the public to monthly public nature interpretive walks to experience and understand local sites of environmental interest. Each year since 2010 CVN has led a citizen science data-collecting interpretive nature walk along Rosewall Creek to the falls.
Rosewall Creek is an excellent representative of mid-Island high-gradient erosional salmon-bearing creeks. It illustrates the flora and fauna of these traditional creeks as well as the ongoing challenges to restoration posed by historical logging practices and current climate change impacts.
The walk will be led by Loys Maingon (RPBio, retired president of Comox Valley Nature). Interested participants are invited to meet either in the former downtown Courtenay Thrifty Foods parking lot (England Avenue, Sixth Street) on Sunday Aug. 26 at 9:30 a.m., or in the Rosewall Provincial Park parking lot at about 10:15 a.m. , off Highway 19A. Wear good shoes and dress accordingly, the trail is for the most part level and gradual but presents challenges due to erosion near the falls. The walk is normally about two to three hours, however if participants wish to take a shorter walk, the trail is very popular and participants should feel free to leave the group.