50 – Friends of Ecological Reserves

Cecil Lake Ecological Reserve (Management Plan Not Available)

21FebruaryGarry Fletcher50, Management, Oil Spill Threat

Note: Management Planning Online management planning information for this Ecological Reserve is not available on the BC Parks website. There are however significant problems with oil field development. One might like to contact BC Parks to find out what the current plans are for protection from the effects of oil extraction in the area s

Ranking of Important Protected Areas in BC based on importance as gene conservation reserves in the zone

6FebruaryGarry Fletcher102, 147, 150, 152, 50, 57, 62, 8, 80, Research

In this UBC forestry document , we have extracted the Ecological reserves from the list of Protected Forest Areas in BC . The complete listing is at: http://www.genetics.forestry.ubc.ca/cfcg/proj_cataloguing/status_report/r_pa_rank_bwbs.html BWBS zone Important Protected Areas Protected Areas are ranked based on their importance as gene conservation reserves in the zone and in BC. Ranking is based on

Satellite maps of three reserves: #150, #50, #8

20MayGarry Fletcher150, 50, 8, Maps

This is adapted from the BC Parks website:

Cecil lake Ecological Reserve Overview, Biological and Physical

21FebruaryGarry Fletcher50, Climate change, Oil Spill Threat, Reports, Species List

Note: Management Planning There is no online management planning information for this Ecological Reserve available at this time. ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve aspen, fen and bog ecosystems representative of the Peace River area of the Alberta Plateau. SIGNIFICANT SPECIES Philadelphia Vireos heathed cotton-grass THREATS Climate Change: It has been projected that the effects of climate

Guide to Ecological Reserves in BC

15NovemberGarry Fletcher1, 10, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 11, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 12, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 13, 130, 131, 132, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 3, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 4, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 5, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 6, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 7, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 8, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 9, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, History, Reports

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

Neudorf et al. 1978 Water Fowl Census –Cecil Lake ER #50

3FebruaryMike Fenger50, Research, Species List

PDF FILE: neudorf_et_al_1978_waterfowl_census_cecil_lake Ed.note: We were impressed with the volunteer efforts on this report. 5,400 hours of time were invested by fifteen volunteers, and a total waterfowl population of over 10,000 birds were documented. This last page, reproduced below provides a rather poignant synopsis, (maybe even reminiscent of Aldo Leopold’s thoughts. )