Keeping the Options Open -1980- NFB film on Ecological Reserves in BC
NFB film on Ecological Reserves
NFB film on Ecological Reserves
Adapted from BC Parks:
Primary Role The primary role of Tsitika River Ecological Reserve is to protect a typical low-elevation fen/bog complex in the Tsitika drainage. The reserve comprises a flat to gently sloping, wet flood plain that has developed thin peat deposits adjacent to the Tsitika River. A variety of bog and fen communities are surrounded by a
This map is adapted from the BC parks website.
Ministry of Forests Report Cruise Statistics, Stand and Stock Table, Summary of Areas, Ground Conditions See PDF: tsitika_exchange_robson_bight
Technical report: Cruise Statistics, Stand and Stock Table, Summary of Areas tsitika_exchange_lot_223
Tsitika River watersheds are included in this report. See 24 page PDF :summary_of_summer_steelhead_waters_including_stocks
This 371 page, 50 mb book may be downloaded from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HFD/library/documents/bib32374.pdf Thanks to Jody Krakowski ER warden for Baynes Island ER #69 for showing us the location of this important document. It provides a page and a map on each of the reserves created up to 1992. Include are the Ecological Reserves now lost from
History, Tsitika Watershed Integrated Resource Plan,Issues Lists Ecological reserves. see PDF: bc_forest_service_review_of_tsitika_watershed
Physical: The reserve comprises a flat to gently sloping, wet flood plain that has developed thin peat deposits adjacent to the Tsitika River. Biological: A variety of bog and fen communities are surrounded by a fringe of forest communities. Bog and fen communities are: (1) Labrador tea -sphagnum moss, (2) shore pine-western redcedar-Labrador tea, (3)
The 1989 Survey program prepared by E.J.Karanka and Associates, Jan. 1990 A good Hydrological study Ed note: Read the blacked out portions, all disclaiming the effect of logging on the ecosystem?? Hmm… See the PDF: Karanka 1990 Tstika River study report
TheRobson Bight Preservation Committee of the island Econauts Society did this report for DFO in 1980 See the 70 page PDF:inventory_of_salmonid_and_marine_resources
members of Millenia Research of Sidney, BC “contracted to research the Indian History of the Robson Bight area.” Culturally modified yellow cedar trees were the main object of investigation in 14 transects , and five prehistoric sites were found. See the 146 page PDF: robson_bight_archaeological_resource_inventory
Unsolicited Proposal to Wildlife habitat Canada: Prepared by the Nature trust of BC. The intent of the proposal was to secure funding to acquire the only private lot in the tsitika estuary. See 35 page PDF: unsolicited_proposal_for_land_aquisition
A submission to the Wilderness Advisory Committee by George and Kay Wood in January 1986. In their view , the committee with its industrial bias was unfit and incompetent to give advice to the government on issues relating to naming and definition of the wilderness issue, and to the uncontorlled logging occurring in the Tsitika
The report is concerned with the proposed addition of a land-based buffer zone to the existing Ecological Reserve established over the water portion of the bight in June 1982. See PDF: er_upland_extension
Appraisal report by Karsten Holmsen The exchange of timber rights is proposed between the province of BC and MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. to offset the effect of land withdrawals from Tree Farm license #39 for the purposes of establishing an Ecological Reserve. See the 153 page PDF:proposed_timber_exchange_1985
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
The report reviews the resources, opportunities, problems and alternatives for the Parks and Outdoor recreation Division at Robson bight and the Lower Tsitika. The heart of the issue is to conserve the whales and their habitat and secondly effective visitor management—– See the PDF: feasibility_study_1981