Torkelson Lake Ecological Reserve Biological and Physical Overview

From the BC Parks Website. ORIGINAL PURPOSE To retain an accessible northern bog-forest complex for research and educational uses See the Full PDF:Torkelsen Lake ER 73 Physical: This reserve is on flanked by mountains rising to 1200 m or higher. Except for a hill on its western side, most of the reserve is flat and

MacKinnon Esker ER #36– Biological and Physical Overview

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect a segment of the longest known esker in British Columbia and vegetation types characteristic of eskers. Physical: The central feature of this reserve is a superb segment of the Mackinnon compound esker, a sinuous ridge reported to be over 50 km long, the longest such landform in the province. The esker

Ballingall Islets ER #151 Overview

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve nesting sites of colonial seabirds Physical: This small rocky archipelago is comprised of two islets that are made up of glaciated and wave-worn sedimentary bedrock of the Nanaimo Group, and are oriented in a northwest-southeast direction located between Saltspring and Galiano islands in the Trincomali Channel. These semi-protected islets are barren

Baeria Rocks Overview

Closed to the public by Order-in-Council no. 1920, 16 June 1977 to protect nesting birds which are very vulnerable to disturbance. A permit is required to land on the rocks and they are accessible by boat. Physical: The terrestrial part of the reserve consists of two low bedrock islands 500 m apart, the southern of

Baynes Island, Biological and Physical Overview

ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To preserve floodplain cottonwood stands for purposes of hybridization and stock improvement Biological: Baynes Island, except for narrow gravel bars at its perimeter, is completely forested. One community of shrubs and four forest communities have been described. Shrub stands, of limited extent, are dominated by the tall shrubs Pacific willow and Pacific ninebark.

Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park Background Document BC Parks.. 1999

Introduction: This report has been prepared to provide natural, cultural, and recreational information to assist the management planning process for Brackendale Eagle Provincial Park. Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park is located on the west side of the Squamish River, near the community of Brackendale, B.C., approximately 70 km. north of Vancouver (Figure 1). It is 755

Naikoon Provincial Park Management Plan 1999

Management Plan for Naikoon Provincial Park and the two ecological reserves Click to access naikoon_pk_mp_19990503_8ea0276b3f.pdf Page 38 of section 5 deals specifically with the Ecological reserves. Provides direction for the long-term management of Naikoon Provincial Park (and Tow Hill Ecological Reserve and Rose Spit Ecological Reserve) on the northeast corner of Haida Gwaii. The approved

EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL: Ten Years Later Technical Background Paper for Alaska Wilderness League

by Pamela A. Miller, Arctic Connections 3/99  This paper was accessed in June 2014 at http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Alaska/miller2.htm I am satisfied that tanker traffic to and from Port Valdez, and operation of an oil port there will not cause any significant damage to the marine environment or to fisheries interests.” –L.R. Beyon, British Petroleum Environmental Studies speaking for

Trial Island Overview: Physical and Biological

 ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To protect the most outstanding known assemblage of rare and endangered plant species in British Columbia Access: Landing on the islands is restricted to protect sensitive plants and ecosystems. A permit is required to access the reserve. Accessible by boat, but no docking facilities. See the complete PDF from BC PARKS: Trial Islands