1.2 Planning Area Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve is located on the west side of Salt Spring Island in the southern Gulf Islands off the east coast of Vancouver Island, about half way between Nanaimo and Victoria. The ecological reserve contains a variety of features including Garry oak meadows, moss covered rocky outcrops and bluffs, species-at-risk,
The Friends of Ecological reserves maintains that the baseline work done on Ecological Reserves now ceded by the province to Parks Canada justifies them as still being recognized as special research areas and it is hoped that they will be designated as such. Research Projects on Brackman Island, former ER #121, and Saturna Island, #15
From THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2009 Mount Maxwell Day Trip By Mike Fenger, Marilyn Lambert, Stephen Ruttan and Paul Linton On May 3rd three of the FER Board visited Paul Linton and the Mount Maxwell ER. Background In 1972, a 65-hectare parcel of land was preserved under the Ecological Reserve Act
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 vehicles are prohibited. Research and educational
Background Report for Burgoyne Bay Protected Area on Saltspring Island The Burgoyne Bay Protected Area is adjacent to the Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve, ER# 37 and this report includes information about it. Link to report: 2003 Burgoyne Bay Background Report. Link to colour atlas (22mb) and other information, http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/viewReport.do?reportId=17739. Abstract Burgoyne Bay Protected Area is located
from Menziesia: Newsletter of the NPSBC Native Plant Society of British Columbia 7 (1): 8 – 11. Thinking like a dynamic mosaic: Towards a strategy for conserving northern Garry oak ecosystems * part 1 Gordon Brent Ingram Tuesday * October 16, 2001 * The Richmond Natural History 4 Thinking like a dynamic mosaic: Conservation planning
This pilot study by Kris Hopping, FWR student in 1990 investigated the impacts of feral sheep on ground vegetation on Mount Maxwell ER. See PDF: impacts_to_ground_vegetation_by_feral_sheep
R.O.Wood and J. Vallentgoed did this report outlining forest insect disease conditions in the Vancouver Forest District in 1982 and forecasts some of the population trends of some potentially damaging forest pests.. Se complete PDF: larvaforest_insect_and_disease_conditions_1982