Japanese Beetle has Moved Underground – Now what?
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
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Flooding Adds to Already Challenging Year for Weather
By Jerry Rousseau
On November 15, 2021, the fifth consecutive ‘atmospheric river’ experienced on the southwest coast of British Columbia was more than the terrain could handle resulting in massive flooding and mudslides in several areas from highway 99 near Pemberton, where 4 people were killed when their vehicle was suddenly swept off the road, to Abbotsford and the former Sumas Lake reasserting itself, to Merritt and Princeton where both towns found themselves underwater with little notice and even the WCTA’s home base of Hope, BC where 1200+ people got stranded after all routes were severed by landslides and washouts.
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Japanese Beetle Detected Outside Regulated Area
An Update from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA):
Stay Alert: Japanese Beetle Detected Outside of the BC Regulated Area
Meet Robby the Robot, UBC Athletics and Recreation’s Newest Staff Member
UBC Athletics and Recreation recently acquired a new helper to paint lines and logos on sports fields at the Vancouver campus: meet Robby the robot.
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Turf Under Fire
by Jerry Rousseau
With unprecedented heat and high winds this past summer came one of western Canada’s worst wildfire seasons on record and at the time of writing (early Sept 2021), hundreds of fires are still burning in BC and AB.