Katherine Tye ER #116 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: A small population of the rare and endangered . The orchids are not consistently flowering every year. As many as 100 specimens were observed by

Meridian Road ER #78 Overview, Biological and Physical

MERIDIAN ROAD (VANDERHOOF) ORIGINAL PURPOSE :To retain a sample of mature Engelmann spruce – Subalpine fir forest  representative of uplands within the Nechako Plateau OVERVIEW Date established:  15 Dec. 1977 Location:  40 km S of Vanderhoof  53º39’N  124º01’W Total Area: Land:  262 ha Elevation: 1,190-1,240 m Access: Access via rough logging roads from Vanderhoof. One 

Anne Vallee ( Triangle Island) Ecological reserve #13 Overview: Biological and Physical

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect large colonies of breeding seabirds, other nesting birds, endemic mammals and their habitat on one of B.C.’s most remote islands Physical: This is a rugged, triangular-shaped island with associated offshore islets and reefs, situated on the Cook Bank. The island has steep outer slopes, and an undulating central plateau. Soils are

Heather lake Ecological Reserve ER #87

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect representative trembling aspen stands and associated vegetation  and fauna within the Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone OVERVIEW Physical: The reserve encompasses an elongate, well-drained, northwest-southeast trending ridge with a low, rounded summit. The ridge lies at the eastern edge of the floor of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a structurally controlled valley with considerable

Parker Lake Ecological Reserve Overview, Biological and Physical

hysical: The reserve lies on a flat, boggy lowland within the Alberta Plateau. Low hills rise one or two kilometres to the north and Pouce Creek to the south has cut a channel into the lowland surface . However, the entire reserve is level and boggy with no organized drainage pattern. Four small shallow lakes,

Patsuk Creek Ecological Reserve #85 Overview, Physical and Biological

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect excellent examples of paper birch forest and a rich assemblage of associated plants. Physical: The reserve is situated on moderate to steep mountain slopes bordering Patsuk Creek, which flows from the Misinchinka Range into Parsnip Reach of Williston Lake via Six Mile Creek. Most of the reserve is south of the

Cougar Canyon Ecological Reserve Overview: Biological and Physical

COUGAR CANYON ORIGINAL PURPOSE To preserve representative Interior Douglas-Fir ecosystems, together witha chain of small lakes and associated wetland. Physical: The reserve lies on the moderately rugged western slopes of the Grizzly Hills. The ma jor physical feature is a narrow, relatively straight, sometimes canyon- like valley the length of the reserve. This appears to