Satellite Channel ER Purpose Statement

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

Independent Assessment of Satellite Channel Ecological Reserve #067: With Respect to the GSX Pipeline

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

Environmental Assessment of the Ecological Significance of Installing a Natural Gas Pipeline around of through ER 67 (Satellite Channel)

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

Guide to Ecological Reserves in BC

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

Satellite Channel Overview: Physical and Biological

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