Gamble Creek ER#133 Management statement March 2003

Table of Contents Forward and Approvals Page……………………………………………………………………………………………..i Introduction Purpose of the Management Direction Statement ……………………………………………………………………..1 Context…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1 Ecological Reserve Attributes Conservation……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Research and Education………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Other Values of Interest ………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Commercial Business Opportunities……………………………………………………………………………………….2 Significance in the Protected Areas System……………………………………………………………………………..2 Land Uses, Tenures and Interests Access……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Existing Tenures, Alienations and Encumbrances………………………………………………………………………4 Adjacent Patterns of Land Use……………………………………………………………………………………………..4 First Nations

Gamble Creek ER #133 Overview: Biological and Physical

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect representative north-coastal forest stands and bog vegetation for research on tree species and ecosystem classification Physical: The reserve is at the western edge of the granitic Kitimat Ranges, and contains rounded mountains which were over-topped by Pleistocene glaciers moving westward to the sea. Mountain slopes facing all compass directions are present.