Warden’s report -Visit to ER #76 – Fraser River Islands, April 26, 2008

Visit to ER #76 – Fraser River Islands, April 26, 2008 Sunny, warm; very low water – 0 to 1.5 m at Mission Put it at Nicomen Island boat launch after carrying our boats from the locked gate. River very low with large sand/gravel bars exposed. Landed lower big island and observed bald eagle in

Atlas of the alluvial gravel-bed reach of Fraser River in the Lower Mainland showing channel changes in the period 1912 -1999

By Michael Church and Darren Ham of the Department of Geography, UBC, October, 2004 The complete PDF may be viewed at this external link: Historical photos (1928- 1999) as presented by Dr. Michael Church www.geog.ubc.ca/fraserriver Once on this site of the Fraser River Gravel Reach Studies, click on “Reports and Publications” and then under Atlas

Warden’s report -Visit to ER #76 – Fraser River Islands, April 3 2004

Visit to ER #76 – Fraser River Islands, April 3, 2004 sunny, water level low of .6 metres at Mission bridge Launched kayaks (around 11:00 am) from boat launch ramp on Nicomen Island, north side of Fraser. Fairly easy paddle (ferrying) across maybe 4 channels and walked across 3 islands. Landed on large accreting islands

Fraser River ER #76 Management Statement

From BC Parks: File: 6-7-1-109-50 Date: 90-03-01 FRASER RIVER ECOLOGICAL RESERVE #76 MANAGEMENT STATEMENT u53171940-rob (This statement is intended for use in conjunction with the descriptive text and map pages supplied in the “Guide to Ecological Reserves in British Columbia”). Features Requiring Special Management Consideration: The reserve supports the last remaining undisturbed and uncommitted deciduous

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

Management Issues Fraser River Islands, 1990

File: 6-7-1-109-50 Date: 90-03-01 FRASER RIVER ECOLOGICAL RESERVE #76 MANAGEMENT STATEMENT (This statement is intended for use in conjunction with the descriptive text and map pages supplied in the “Guide to Ecological Reserves in British Columbia”). Features Requiring Special Management Consideration: The reserve supports the last remaining undisturbed and uncommitted deciduous alluvial forest along the

Beaver Ecology and a Biosurvey

Doreen Liner , Dave Kane and Alan McLeod submitted this research  in April, 1983 for Dr. Fred Bunnell, UBC. It is a biosurvey of the Fraser River ER Islands , taken to investigate a suspected beaver problem and to update previously collected information. The report describes four permanent plots set up to facilitate future studies