Garry Fletcher

Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park Master Plan, June 1980

6JuneGarry Fletcher68, Management, ReportsOsburn caribou

A report of the planning and Design branch of Ministry of Lands Parks and Housing, BC spatsizi_plateau_park_master_plan

ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THEIR OCCURRENCE IN EXISTING OR PROPOSED ECOLOGICAL RESERVES

15MayGarry FletcherLogging old-growth, SARAalpine, rare plants

ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THEIR OCCURRENCE IN EXISTING OR PROPOSED ECOLOGICAL RESERVES by George W. Douglas Douglas Ecological Consultants Ltd. 2049 Crescent Road Victoria, B.C. V8S 2G9 1980 Alpine vegetation in British Columbia has received little attention from scientists and land managers. Unfortunately, most of the work that has been done remains

Cardiff Mountain Air photo

19AprilGarry Fletcher55, Maps

Cardiff Mountain ER #55 map

19AprilGarry Fletcher55, Maps

Overview Ilgachuz Range To preserve extensive and diverse alpine-subalpine ecosystems in an isolated massif of volcanic origin

16AprilGarry Fletcher64, Reports, Species ListCaribou boreal, Iceland koenigia, milky draba, Payson’s draba

Original Purpose: To preserve extensive and diverse alpine-subalpine ecosystems in an isolated massif of volcanic origin Physical: The Ilgachuz Range is one of three distinct mountain masses which lie within the confines of the Fraser Plateau in the Anahim Lake area. All were formed by shield volcanoes of Miocene age which built up dome-like piles

Lac du Bois Crown land Plan

12AprilGarry Fletcher29, Reports

wildlife management area above Kamloops Lake Waterfowl management, research Area, Includes maps. lac_du_bois_dewdrop_crown_land_plan Photo by Garry Fletcher ( ducks unlimited!!)

Field’s Lease ER #33 Maps

8AprilGarry Fletcher33, Maps

Two maps adapted from the BC Parks Website

Oribatid Mites ( Acari: orbatida) of Hayne’s Lease ER

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Species ListExechocepheus, oribatid mites, Passalozettes

Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier of Biosystematics Research Centre , Agriculture Canada, Ottawa did this research in the 1980s. Oribatida are a quantitatively important component of most soils. They affect litter decomposition by feeding on and dispersing fungi, and by stimulating senescent fungal colonies through grazing. See the PDF: oribatid_mites_of_haynes_lease It notes that two generas were found

Hayne’s Lease Araneae (Spiders) (2)

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Species List

Hayne’s Lease Araneae: ( Spiders) Spencer Entomological Museum, UBC, Determined by C.Dondale and J. Redner haynes_lease_araneae_in_spencer_entomological_museum

The Osoyos Arid Biotic Area

8AprilGarry Fletcher100, Reports, Species ListAmbystoma tigrinum slater, Antelope Brush, Antrozous pallididus cantwelli, bitterroot, Canyon wren, Eumeces skiltonianus, Great-basin spadefoot toad, Lewisia rediviva, myotis leibii melananorhinus, Opuntia fragilis, Pallid bat, Purshia tridentata, Scaphiopus intermontanus, short-horned lizard, small footed bat, Tiger salamander, western skink

G.G.E. Scudder of the Dept of Zoology, UBC The Osoyoos-arid Biotic Area has a distinctive faunal assemblege found nowhere else in Canada. Some of the species are found nowhere else in British Columbia. While they may not all be endangered, that they occur to the south, the populations in BC are peripheral ones. See the

Beresford Island ER #12 Overview: Physical and Biological

5AprilGarry Fletcher12, Reports, Species ListAbalone, Black, brandt's cormorant, Cassin's Auklet, Common Murre, Deermouse, Fork-tailed, Leach’s, Oystercatcher, Pelagic Cormorant, Peregrine Falcon spp. pealei, peromyscus maniculatus, Pigeon Guillemots, Storm-petrel

Original Purpose: To protect colonies of nesting seabirds and their habitat Physical: A small, rocky island, roughly oval in shape, which rises steeply from deep water to a rounded top. The shore is rock and the upper slopes tend to have less soil cover than Triangle and Sartine islands. A number of rocks and reefs

Sartine Islands Ecological Reserve Ecological Overview, Physical and Biological

5AprilGarry Fletcher11, Rare Species, Reports, Species Listbrandt's cormorant, Cassin's Auklet, Common Murre, Northern Abalone, Peregrine Falcon spp. pealei, Sea Otter, Steller Sea Lion, Tufted Puffin

Original Purpose: To protect colonies of breeding seabirds and their habitat Physical: This is a rugged, elongate island which rises steeply from the sea to a series of pinnacles and humps. The shoreline is rock, rising directly from the water, except for a narrow boulder beach along the northeastern shore. Though steep, most of the

Buck Hills Road map

30MarchGarry Fletcher6, Maps

A topographic map of Buck Hills Road Ecological Reserve.

New Species of Oligochaetes from Kerouard and Anthony Islands : Randy Baker

30MarchGarry Fletcher95, 96, People, Rare Species, Research, Species ListBathydrilus, Family Randiellidae, Grania, Oligochaeta, Order Randiellida, Pectinodrilus tempedstatis, Phallodrilus, Randy Baker, Subclass Randiellata, Tubificoides

Several species new to science of the class Oligochaeta were sampled in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) by Randy Baker in 1980. His samples were from the West side of Anthony Island in the mid-intertidal sediment , and on Kerourd Island from near the the south west side of St. James Island. See the

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