Satellite Channel Ecological reserve #67 Map
Adapted from BC Parks website :
Adapted from BC Parks website :
SATELLITE CHANNEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE 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 the maintenance of biological diversity and the protection of genetic materials. All consumptive resource uses and the use of motorized
Satellite Channel Ecological Reserve #067 (ER67), located between Saltspring Island and Saanich Peninsula, was designated in 1975 to conserve rich benthic communities typical of fine-grained, level-bottom environments in the southern Gulf Islands (Figure 1). Under the Ecological Reserve Act, industrial uses are prohibited in ecological reserves (ER) to protect the environmental values associated with these
This report by terra Environmental Consultants is an Environmental Impact study of the siting of a proposed Gas Pipeline that could have gone through the ecological reserve. See the full PDF: Sattelite Channel ER Tera Environmental Consultants 2000 EIA
Satellite Channel, BC Canada excellent benthic invertebrate species list of the Ecological reserve in Satellite Channel See the PDF: Satellite Channel Ellis 2000
B.Burd , Ecostst research, R.Glaholt, Tera Env Consultants and Va,erie MacDonald,biologicakl Env. Services of Victoria BC . Prepared for Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline Ltd. See the 58 page PDF: Satellite Channel GSX PL Report
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
Original Purpose: To conserve rich benthic communities typical of fine-grained, level bottom environments in the southern Gulf of Georgia’ Physical: The reserve consists only of sea floor habitat. Most of the width of Satellite Channel is included, the northern boundary coming within 200 m of the Salt Spring Island shoreline at Cape Keppel, the southern