IBA Anthony Island ER #95

 FROM: http://www.ibacanada.com/site.jsp?siteID=BC010&lang=EN IBA Anthony Island Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Site Summary BC010 Latitude Longitude 52.096° N 131.222° W Elevation Size 0 – 75 m 110.32 km² Habitats: coniferous forest (temperate), scrub/shrub Land Use: Not Utilized (Natural Area) Potential or ongoing Threats: Disturbance, Introduced species, Oil slicks IBA Criteria: Globally Significant: Congregatory Species, Colonial Waterbirds/Seabird

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

Ecological Reserve Proposal #290: Islets off Anthony Island

Trudy Carson provided a description of the islands and the bird species.  A species list of macrophytes, and Randy Baker has provided a report on annelids. The uniqueness of this reserve and why it was an IBP Area, is that they are a small group of islets with different habitats ( landform and vegetation) features

New Species of Oligochaetes from Kerouard and Anthony Islands : Randy Baker

Several species new to science of the class Oligochaeta were sampled  in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)  by Randy Baker in 1980.  His samples were from the West side of Anthony Island in the mid-intertidal sediment , and on Kerourd Island from near the the south west side of St. James Island. See the