Yellowpoint Bog Field Trip, 2011

The Friends of Ecological Reserves Board Members visited the Yelllowpoint Bog on May 8 of 2011. The following are a set of images by Garry Fletcher that represent our views of the area.  See also the Spring summer 2011 newsletter where there is commentary on the trip made the same day to Woodley Range ER.

Yellowpoint Bog ER #139 Overview: Biological and Physical

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect a highly diverse mosaic of ecosystem types from aquatic, peat bog and forest to dry-site ecosystems. Physical: The reserve comprises gently undulating lowlands formed by glacially scoured rocks of the cretaceous Nanaimo Formation. For the most part the cover of surficial deposits and soils on the NW-SE trending, rounded ridges is