Letter from The Friends of Ecological Reserves To Gulf Islands National Park Advisory Board December 5th 2012 Re: Gulf Islands Parks plan and management of former Ecological Reserves on Saturna and Brackman Islands. This letter is a request from Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER) to the advisory board to use the boundaries of former ERs
From : Todd Golumbia, Ecologist Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, March 2012 Since the Park was established, we have undertaken ecosystem mapping of the southern gulf islands including these areas. Both ERs have field plot data for the mapping but it not extracted from the larger data set. We have also done flora surveys on
The Friends of Ecological reserves maintains that the baseline work done on Ecological Reserves now ceded by the province to Parks Canada justifies them as still being recognized as special research areas and it is hoped that they will be designated as such. Research Projects on Brackman Island, former ER #121, and Saturna Island, #15
Ecological Reserve 15, Saturna Island, Terrestrial Ecosystem Inventory, by Harvey Janszen, 2001 For access to the complete report please click on this link to the file ER15TE. In the summer of 1996 the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks undertook a project to inventory the untenured Crown land of Saturna Island for a proposed woodlot license
Introduction : By Pam Janszen This research project began in August of 1997 when I was granted permission to do fungal inventory and research work in Winter Cove Provincial Park and Ecological Reserve # 15, both on Saturna Island. Since that time I have made 87 trips into the Reserve and 61 trips to the
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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
The Overview of the Ecological reserve NE. of Warburton Pike, southern tip of Saturna island. Map surveyed by T.M. C. Taylor and T.C. Brayshaw.
Ingram, G.B. June,1981. The Executive summary and index only are included in this PDF. The details of the Book it is from are below: See the PDF contaning the Executive Summary: ingram-1981-fragments-management-protection-and-restoration-proposals-for-thirteen-ecological-reserves-in-british-columbia Bibliographic information Title Fragments: Management, Protection, and Restoration Proposals for Thirteen Ecological Reserves in British Columbia, Canada Author G. Brent Ingram Contributor British
Map showing the location of research plots for the Fungi study by by Janszen 2001
Harvey Janszen published this list of 455 taxa of vascular plants from Saturna Island in 1977. See the PDF file: Janszen_Vascular Plants
This report was done by Russ George and David Clark in 1975 Department of Biology , University of Victoria. It includes the IBP Check Sheet for Conservation of Terrestrial Biological Communities. See PDF file: George and Clark_Vascular Flora
V. Geist published this report in the Murrelet, Sept-Dec, 1960 Vol 41(3) See PDF: Geist_1960_Feral_Goats_in_BC_Saltspring_Saturna