Note: At the time this was proposed, complete adherence to the process was not possible, so that intermittent informal monitoring only took place. From the original at: http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/seabirds/nestsurvey/monitor.htm Version 1 March 31, 2000 Prepared for Lester B. Pearson College and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, with support from the Department of the Environment, Canadian
Physical: Biological: Most of the reserve consists of steep east to southeast-facing slopes formed by downcutting of Big Creek into the lava plateau. Small areas of more level topography include the Big Creek fan and terraces above the Chilcotin River. Surficial materials are primarily glacial till and fluvial deposits. Soils of grasslands and open woodland
See the complete report pfd file: ambrose_lake(1) ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve a small coastal lake, adjacent bogland, and surrounding forest Physical: The reserve occurs on undulating terrain of the Georgia Lowland, underlain by largely granitic bedrock. Its western boundary follows 1.5 km of marine shoreline along Agamemnon Channel, its eastern boundary a similar distance along
Thias has been adapted from the BC Parks website
ORIGINAL PURPOSE : To protect in its natural state, a small, self-contained subalpine drainage, including a lake Physical: The reserve includes a complete hanging valley with a subalpine lake. The side walls are steep, but mostly forested. Rocks are granite-type crystalline rocks of the Jurassic Island Intrusions formation. Surficial materials are mostly colluvial, or absent.
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve outstanding lodgepole pine stands and adjacent bogland near the northern edge of the Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone Physical: The reserve is located on the flat, eastern half of a peninsula between Omineca Arm and Finlay Reach of Williston Lake. This level land on the floor of the Rocky Mountain Trench, underlain by
ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To protect representative old-growth montane forest communities on northeastern Vancouver Island Physical: The reserve comprises mostly southeast-facing and some south-facing slopes of a low mountain ridge. Bedrocks belong to the Island Intrusions formation and surficial materials are till and colluvium. Soils are mostly Orthic Humo-ferric Podzols. See the complete version of this document
Physical: The reserve lies on a gently Dissected plain of low relief between the Fraser ND THE Bowron rivers. This area was flooded by a glacial lake at the close of the ice age and is underlain by glacial lake clays. The reserve has a very gentle slope to the north, and small streams flowing
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect outstanding Garry oak stands and associated vegetation Physical: The reserve is on the strongly sloping southwest side of Baynes Peak. Surficial materials are colluvium and weathered bedrock derived from sandstone. Soils are thin, poorly developed, and subject to summer drought. Dominant soils are Brunisols, but small areas of Podzols occur. Streams
From one of the reports:
PHYSICAL: The reserve is on the floodplain of the Skagit River , a relatively small, fast-flowing river with a gradient of about six m/km. The northeast-southwest trending valley, located in the Hozameen Ranges of the Cascade Mountains, is bounded by slopes of about 30o which rise to peaks of 2100-2500 m. The valley is relatively
ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To provide an undisturbed area for silvicultural research on western larch, and a genetic bank for that species. Physical: The reserve lies on the relatively flat valley bottom of Gilnockie Creek at its confluence with the Yahk River, which drains southward into Montana. Rounded, forested summits of the Yahk Range (to the west)
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve a unique bog in the Coastal Douglas-Fir Zone COMPOSITION Physical: The bog, about 900 m long and 125 m wide, lies in an elongate depression between NE-SE trending ridges of Cretaceous sedimentary rock. It has a centrally located open-water area about 0.5 ha in size, and drains southward to Trincomali Channel
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect vegetation and fauna characteristic of the Coastal Douglas-Fir Zone Access: Much of the reserve was selectively logged in the 1960s, and old logging roads are present. Part of the reserve is fenced to keep out feral sheep. See the complete PDF: lasqueti COMPOSITION The reserve contains a rocky, irregular hill with
This map has been adapted from the BC Parks website
Original Purpose: To preserve showy stands of the rare fawn lily. Physical: The reserve is located where Sutton and Millar creeks issue from the Vancouver Island mountains, depositing alluvial materials in a reach of reduced gradient, 1.5 km upstream from the creek mouth at Cowichan Lake. Sutton Creek winds through the middle of the reserve.
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect a rare and disjunct population of the white glacier lily, subalpine mountain hemlock vegetation, and subalpine wetlands. Physical: San Juan Ridge is the remnant of a Tertiary erosion surface, subsequently over-ridden and smoothed by Pleistocene ice which moved southerly across it. The reserve slopes to the north from its southern boundary
