From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Louise Beinhauer Two late summer articles, one appearing in Science an online Journal of original scientific research and the other in Smithsonian Magazine, whose focus was on the research of Tom Reimchen, Chris Darimont, Caroline Fox and Heather Bryan caught my attention. The article in
Fast away the old year passes, join the new yea lads and lasses so the old carol goes, and yes we need to look ahead to what may be difficult times with regard to changes around the globe and shifts in species and ecosystems in response. For me this year has flown by and FER
See the pdf for the Log: autumn-winter2015-colour-final From the article “The Life of Ken Millard”in this issue of the LOG
I recently came across an article in the Tyee taken from the– –Hakai magazine about the negative human impact on wild populations by size selection in fisheries and hunting. “Humans Kill 14 Times More Adult Fish than Wild Predators” The research was authored by Dr. Tom Reimchen and former students , with some of the
July-2015: The Friends of Ecological Reserves was contacted by Mark Spoljaricon, M.Sc. Haida Fisheries Program Biologist, Skidegate Haida Gwaii on July 22 about an increased risk to the Drizzle Lake ER due to BC Timber Sales (BCTS) planned auction of harvest Block DRL I05 which makes the access to the lake more exposed. Any anthropogenic alteration to this lake
This is a reference to the work of Dr. Tom Reimchen from his webpage http://web.uvic.ca/~reimlab/index.html Dr. Reichen was supported in his early research at Drizzle Lake by The Friends of Ecological Reserves. Summaries of his research in the following areas are illustrated: Adaptive Radiation and Functional Morphology Haida Gwaii Lakes , Biophysical Data Salmon Forest
The two maps here are show satellite view and detailed view of the Drizzle Lake Ecological reserve.
The relative locations of Rose Spit, Tow hill, Lepas bay and Vladimir Krajina Ecological reserves are shown on this map:
The following 2 maps are from the Drizzle Lake Management Direction Statement of BC Parks, 2004
MANAGEMENT DIRECTION STATEMENT September 2004 PDF File:drizzle_lk Excerpt below: Ecological Reserve Statement Conservation Role Drizzle Lake Ecological Reserve serves a conservation role within the British Columbia protected areas system. The ecological reserve protects an international significant and critically imperiled population of giant black stickleback that is one of only three known populations in British Columbia.
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
P.O’Reillym T.E. Reimchen, R. Beech and C. Stroebeck in this paper submitted to Science AAS , draw on restriction endonuclease map variation in Mitochondrial DNA to show that morphologically endemic freshwater populations of threespine stickleback contain two lineages of haplotypes—– See complete PDF: mitochondrial_dna_in_gasterosteus
Research Reports From Dr. Tom Reimchen: Interim Research Report – 1976 Interim Research Report – 1977 Interim Research Report – 1978 Research Report – 1983 Loons at Drizzle Lake – 1981 Research Program- 1976-1985 Parental Contribution to Red-Throated Loon Young Parental Feeding of Red-Throated Loon Young Seasonal and Diurnal Bird Abundance Stickleback Evolution Stickleback Mitochondrial
Publications: Reimchen, T. E. and Douglas, S. 1980. Observations of loons (Gavia immer and G. stellata) at a bog lake on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Canadian Field Naturalist 94: 398-404. Abstract A small muskeg lake on the Queen Charlotte Islands was frequented in summer by up to 59 Common Loons (Gavia immer) and 19
Northcotte, Peden and Reimchen surveyed some 315 fish species that live in this area : See full PDF: fishes_of_QCI
Dr. T. E. Reimchen and S.D. Douglas report on research at the Drizzle lake ER , concentrating on the evolutionary biology of threespine sticlkeback, interactions between freshwater fish and fish-eating birds, and the breeding behaviour of red-throated Loons. See the complete PDF: nexecutive_summary_of_research_program
This is the final report to the ER office on research conducted by Elizabeth Stinson on the Drizzle lake ER between Apr 1981 and August, 1982 See the complete PDF:final_research_report_1983
T.E. Reimchen and S Douglas, November 1982. This provides a detaailed species list with potential for long term baseline comparison . See the PDF file: seasonal_bird_abundance Bufflehead by Ryan Murphy
T.E. Reimchen and S. Douglas Dept of Biology U of Alberta report ontime budgets and energetic investment on parental care by the sexes of Red-throated loons in Drizzle lake ER. See complete PDF: parental_feeding_in_the_red-throated_loon_on_qci