UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Boat Basin Foundation welcomes requests from any interested university or college wishing to bring groups of students here to use our facilities as a base for field studies in the region.

Groups cook their own meals and dine together in our Central Hall. They stay in cabins which accommodate up to eighteen students. While our support staff is on hand to assist in many different ways, student groups are largely independent and self-motivated, following their own agenda and organizing their own activities.

Only steps from their cabin doors, students will find...

1. First growth rainforest revealing over 1000 years of natural and cultural succession.
2. A variety of ecosystems, including peat-bog habitat, intertidal and estuarine systems, and succession zones between clearcuts and undisturbed forest habitat.
3. Rare isolated lake habitat, explored by canoe or rowboat.
4. A great array of animal and bird life, including mew gulls, bald eagles, varied thrushes, winter wrens and many other passerines. Black bears are regularly sighted, and sometimes wolves or even cougar.

This July we are pleased to welcome Royal Roads University for the first time. The class will stay at the Field Studies Centre for 6 nights studying interpretation and communication.

Contact us if your group or institution is interested in visiting the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre. We will assist you with itinerary planning and logistics, and can offer suggestions about educational resources.

 

 

 

The Wildlands Studies Program from University of California, Santa Barbara will be studying at Boat Basin in August, 2007. The program has visited Boat Basin many times. They first came before the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre construction commenced, and in 2003 became the first university group to use the Centre.

Twelve students from across North America will arrive in late July, led by two instructors. The group often spends their first night at Hooksum Outdoor School, across the harbour, and then camps for two nights on the beach at Boat Basin.

The students then hike from the Escalante River around Estevan Point to Boat Basin, seeing the remarkable ecological diversity of both Nootka Sound and Clayoquot Sound.

After the hike, the group studies hard at the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre, and then finishish their course in Tofino and Ucluelet with presentations from local resource and advocacy groups.

Click here to read a full course description.