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Summer with the Friends of Cortes Island

The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) has a very full summer calendar for 2026. 

Their  events program started Monday June 28 with Misty Isles, and the Secret Shelf Exploration. Executive Director Helen Hall recently explained, “That’s a guided visit to a really amazing intertidal area off southern Cortes. People will get the chance to explore by snorkel and learn all about the marine environment there.” It was fully booked, and unfortunately, those who might have liked to go along have now missed the opportunity.

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All about moss: a closer look through an ecologist’s eyes

CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

The Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society is hosting Moss Talk on Dec.12 at Manson’s Hall.

This is a sister event to the Moss Walk, which took place in Kw’as Park on Nov. 13. The presenter for both events is Dan Tucker, an ecologist with a healthy self-admitted obsession with bryophytes, which are a group of plants composed of mosses, hornworts and liverworts. He’s also well-versed in lichens, which are a symbiotic partnership between a fungi and an alga.

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