The 2023/24 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2023/24 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER’s Response to the B.C. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health Framework Oil Spill Response is Questioned An Ecological Reserve as an Outdoor Classroom ER Proposal History and Current Status Flora of Two East
Link to the pdf version : Pink Mountain BC Nature article Note: tentative identification of 44 significantly rare species Pink Mountain BC Nature article
We have assigned an ER # 155 to Pink Mountain to reference research, photography and other information to this area which urgently needs protection. As of February 2024, 5 observers have added 16 species to the iNaturalist records link to the iNaturalist records .
. The hidden gems of British Columbia’s protected areas system are its ecological reserves, set aside for scientific study and education, not recreation. Two of the first ERs ever established sit above Columbia Lake at the headwaters of the Columbia Valley. Discover how a Czech refugee fleeing the Communists prompted B.C. to become the first
The 2022/23 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2022/23 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Biological Diversity Key to a Healthy Planet Island Gems are among B.C.’s Seven Biodiversity Hot Spots Intact Forest Ecosystems – A Conservation Campaign Columbia Lake ER Warden’s Report Lasquiti Island Report BC
Click here for the full report: Elk Flathead Stetski FINAL. the complete PDF file Attached is a copy of my report, commissioned by Parks Canada, on Conservation Options for the Elk and Flathead River Valleys in SEBC. This is a critical area in the Yellowstone to Yukon corridor. I will be presenting on the report
The 2022 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. If you want to e-mail Friends of Ecological reserve, use this address: ecoreserves2022 ( use the “at” sign) gmail.com Click here to open the 2022 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER 2022 AGM and President’s Report The Extreme Biodiversity of Pink Mountain Fraser
From Elphinstone Logging Focus: The latest (April 1st, 2021) BCTS Planning Map shows that the series of A87126 blocks that make up the Dakota Bear Sanctuary no longer appear. This eraser of their polygons from the map is a thing of beauty. With the block shading removed the topo for the area reveals how steep
Jim Pojar in February of 1981, as a member of the British Columbia Forest Service wrote this paper . “a small intact west coast drainage system, biologically representative but with several floristic rarities; vegetation modified by extreme exposure; an estuary and a sand beach ecosystem; and the possibility (which needs further investigation) that the Brooks
Since we have been recommending proposals for ERs for several areas, an update on the protection of the Mt. Elphinstone ecological reserves proposals was recently provided by Ross Muirhead of the Elphinstone Logging Focus group; “The Clack Creek Forest was logged in early 2020. However, out of the 5 x Rubus Navailis patches 2 were
See Also Elphinstone Logging Focus Dakota Bear Sanctuary Needs Protection From: https://www.coastreporter.net/local-news/dakota-bowl-protected-under-deal-with-squamish-nation-3469610 Mar 1, 2021 5:47 PM By: Keili Bartlett 77 culturally modified trees have been identified in the area that is now part of an agreement between Squamish Nation and the province. A contentious cutblock in the Dakota Bowl area of Mount Elphinstone will be
From the website Elphinstone Logging Focus: Dakota Bear Sanctuary Needs Protection A history of the Struggle of the people of the Sunshine Coast who were involved in the effort to save this magnificant old growth forest
Our thanks to the Ross Muirhead of (ELF) Elphinstone Logging Focus for sending us this link to a new film that takes the viewer into the Dakota Bear Sanctuary, Squamish Nation, Sunshine Coast, B.C.The Dakota Bear Sanctuary. This link will provide all the posts on this website about the Dakota Bowl Ecological Reserve proposal. https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/er/156/
Here are some references relevant to the three proposed Eocene Fossil sites in the BC Interior which in the past have been proposed as ecological reserves; 1. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e04-100 Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape1 David R. Greenwood, S. Bruce Archibald, Rolf
The 2020 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2020 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: British Columbia’s Ecological Reserves, Forgotten Gems? The BC Parks iNaturalist Program BC Nature Supports FER Summary of the FER Old Growth Management Review Funding Conservation & Stewardship Projects in ERs BC Parks
List of ER Proposals (1985) A list of proposed reserves are contained in this 42 page PDF document. It includes an original list from 1968 and then subsequent additions to the list from 1978 to 1984. Here is a link to the document: 1985 ER Program in BC : ER Proposals It is a scan
The following set of emails was sent to me at the beginning of June 2020. It seems that British Columbia is still determined to log old growth forests even though community interests for conservation would suggest that it may be time for governments to consider heeding a different set of values. From: Elphinstone Logging Focus <loggingfocus@gmail.com>
By Jenny L. Feick, PhD On May 4, 1971, the Government of British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in Canada to pass legislation to protect ecological reserves. May 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ecological Reserves Act and regulations and the establishment of B.C.’s first ecological reserves. Ecological reserves are permanent sanctuaries, located throughout
See the pdf: PR_20K_MAP_OperatingPlan_5YearSchedule_20200110_MOUNT ELPHINSTONE_MOUNT ELPHINSTONE See also concern about logging in the dakota Bowl area.: https://loggingfocus.org/loggingfocus/bc-timber-sales-preparing-dakota-valley-extensive-old-growth-logging/
May 26: Update from Elphinstone Logging Focus Please note that Roberts Creek Headwaters Forest has been removed from the BCTS Planning Schedule. For a few years it appeared as an OGMA, but they don’t want that designation. The BCTS Forest Planner at the time (Norm Kempe in Campbell River) urged us to contact FoER and have you folks submit it as an ER