The 2024 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2024 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER AGM 300 Hectares of Old Growth Habitat to be protected New Talking Tree Nature Reserve on Galiano Island BC Parks Foundation Receives Large Grant for Lumley Road Project (Salt Spring Island)
This image was extracted from Google Earth The red dots show the approximate location of the Mount Tuam Ecological reserve.
1.1 Management Plan Purpose The purpose of this management plan is to provide strategic management direction for Mount Tuam Ecological Reserve . This management plan replaces the 2003 Mount Tuam Ecological Reserve Purpose Statement. The primary objectives of the management plan are to: •outline the role the ecological reserve plays in British Columbia ’s(BC)
Madrone Environmental Consultants reported to the Ministry of the Environment: detailed field sampling to support ecosystem mapping and interpretations on Salt Spring Island. Color photos on different ecosystems available. See PDF: madrone_2007_conservation_assessment_mount_taum and_mount_maxwell ers
This map was adapted from the BC Parks website:
Purpose Statement Ecological reserves are areas selected to preserve representative and special natural ecosystems, plant and animal species, features and phenomena. The key goal of ecological reserves is to contribute to th e maintenance of biological diversity and the protection of genetic materials. All consumptive resource uses and the use of motorized vehicles are prohib
Physical: The reserve is on the steep, rugged, southeast slope of Mount Tuam, facing Satellite Channel. These slopes consist of a series of rounded knolls separated by draws. Exposed bedrock is present on the tops of some knolls and along the shoreline, and soils are generally thin. About 1 km of rocky shoreline is included
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
C.D. Bird published this in The Oystercatcher (2) : 5. June 1983.
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
By Eileen South, Dept of Biology, U Vic, BC Feb 11, 1976 and Catherine Guest See the complete record in PDF file: fauna(8) Photo below : Lynne Milne, Bristol Foster and Hans Roemer at Lasqueti Island
Insect Fauna of Ecological Reserves #4 Lasqueti, #15 Saturna,#16, Mount Tuam , by Gwen Shrimpton Supervisor Richard Ring, U.Vic Image by Ryan Murphy See the complete PDF file: insect_summary
Sylvia Handley, Diana Mainguy and Dave Clark under the supervision of Dr. Marcus Bell of U.Vic Biology carried out this vegetation study in 1974 . A total of 213 species are described. See the PDF: (#016) Bell 1974 Flora of Mount Tuam Ecological Reserve
Marcus Bell of the Biology, Dept. U.Vic reports on research carried out by 6 students in 1974; 1. Flora and vegetation of Mount Maxwell 2. Flora and vegetation of Mount Tuam 3. Survey of marine and fresh water Algae of Mount Tuam 4. The vertebrate fauna of three ecological reserves of Gulf Islands 5. The
PDF file: Catherine Guest (U Vic) 1974, Vertebrates Saturna Mt Tuam Mt Maxwell Below: one of the vertebrates in the survey, The Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora aurora) photo by G.Fletcher
