B.C.’s Double-crested Cormorant reserves
Thomas Ovanin writes about the 2 ecological reserves in the Islands trust area in the magazine “The Islands” PDF FILE:bc_double_crested_cormorants
Warden Report Westwick lake ER#35 1982
Anna Roberts reports:
Vegetation of the Tsitika River Estuary
Prior to creation of the RObson Bight ER in 1982, Adolf Ceska produced this detailed Plant Community analysis and vegetation species list for the ER Unit of Ministry of Lands Parks and Housing, 1981. He notes that the Tsitika River watershed was the last unlogged watershed on the eastern side of Vancouver island. See the
Studies of radio-collared caribou in the Spatsizi wilderness park: Hatler, 1982
David Hatler summarizes findings from one year of bi-monthly contacts of a sample of radio-collared caribou in and near the northern Spatsizi Wilderness park See the pdf : studies_of_radio_collared_caribou_in_spatsizi
Cardiff Mountain Warden’s report, 1982
Artemesia michauxiana photo by Anna Roberts Anna Roberts visits the reserve in September of 1982 , she adds one new species to the J. Pojar species list, Viburnum edule
Species List – Milne and Legg, 1982
Lynne Milnes and Peter Legg listed vegetation and several birds in 1982:
Growth Comparisons of a Plankton and Fish-Feeding Alcid-1982
See this PDF file for complete report: alcid_growth By Kees Vermeer and L.Cullen
Mosses of Doc English Bluff ER
Mosses were collected from the east aspect — top of the limestone bluff, and from the north east aspect, top of bluff and were identified by Frank Boaz
Seasonal and Diurnal Abundance of Birds at Drizzle Lake ER
T.E. Reimchen and S Douglas, November 1982. This provides a detaailed species list with potential for long term baseline comparison . See the PDF file: seasonal_bird_abundance Bufflehead by Ryan Murphy
Inventory of vascular Plants andd their Habitats in NW Port Chanal , QCI ER #45
Sheila Douglas did this inventory during a three day field trip to the areas in July 1982. The flora of the peninsula at the northwestern section of the reserve was surveyed in several habitats ( coastal,and gravel beach, blanket bog, Yellow Cedar scrub forest, Western red Hemlock/Red Cedar forest and awautic) Plant specimens collected will
Ecological reserves and some other Locations in Southern Vancouver island as Sites for Marine Research.
Brent Bisgrove did a paper for Dr. D.V. Ellis , Biology 490, U.Vic. in June 1982 . This is the part referring to Er # 94 See the Complete fPDF : ers_and_other_sites_for_marine_research
Westwick ER MAP
This is one from the original ER information publication.
Application for the ER
“Westwick lake is the Type locality ” of many insects studied by Scudder and his students”
Male and Female contribution to the young during the pre-fledgling period in a pair of Red-Throated loons
T.E. Reimchen and S. Douglas Dept of Biology U of Alberta report ontime budgets and energetic investment on parental care by the sexes of Red-throated loons in Drizzle lake ER. See complete PDF: parental_feeding_in_the_red-throated_loon_on_qci
Forest Insect and disease Conditions Vancouver Forest region, 1982
R.O.Wood and J. Vallentgoed did this report outlining forest insect disease conditions in the Vancouver Forest District in 1982 and forecasts some of the population trends of some potentially damaging forest pests.. Se complete PDF: larvaforest_insect_and_disease_conditions_1982
Changes in subtidal community Structure resulting from the BC Sea Otter transplants
Paul Breen, Trudy Carson, Bristol Foster and Anne Stewart did this report for DFO . In 1979 they visited the area known to be occupied by 55 animals in 1978 and made subtidal observations of the abundance and distribution of red sea urchins and found the red urchins to be scarce and restricted to crevices,