A Community’s Quest to Document Every Species on Their Island Home

On the southern tip of Galiano Island, a diagonal, 28-kilometer-long strip of land suspended off the coast of southern British Columbia, a thicket of Douglas fir thins to a small clearing overlooking Active Pass. A layered vista of darkly green Gulf Islands—the archipelago of which Galiano is a part—extends in every direction. Directly below the viewpoint, the blare of a ferry’s horn alerts us to a boatload of passengers headed for the nearby city of Vancouver.

“This is the spot,” says Andrew Simon, a naturalist. “I’ll let you find it.”

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