The latest BC Parks Management Plan Baynes Island Ecological Reserve protects the black cottonwood floodplain ecosystem. Recreation is not encouraged on Baynes Island but opportunities for scientific study and research are permitted to enhance scientific knowledge of low elevation coastal floodplain ecology. For the full PDF see: bebit_mp-1 Excerpts of the Plan are provided here:
A Gallery of Fungi: Photography by Rosemary Taylor. Identifications by Terry Taylor Click on image for enlargement. All images are copywrite of the author, Rosemary Taylor.
PHYSICAL: The reserve consists of steep rocky south, east and northeast-facing slopes of a subalpine ridge and the upper parts of associated colluvial slopes. The ridge extends southeastward from Green Mountain in the Nanaimo River drainage. From BC Parks see complete PDF file: haley lake er BIOLOGICAL: Major plant community types in this reserve are
Liparis loeselii is a rare red listed orchid and is a major reason that Mara Meadows was set aside as an ecological reserve. There are many orchid species in the Meadows, this is the rarest.
From : http://www.ibacanada.com/site.jsp?siteID=BC007&lang=EN IBA Duke of Edinburgh Ecological Reserve Port Hardy, British Columbia Site Summary BC007 Latitude Longitude 50.987° N 127.68° W Elevation Size 0 – 85 m 99.28 km² Habitats: coniferous forest (temperate), coastal cliffs/rocky shores (marine) Land Use: Not Utilized (Natural Area) Potential or ongoing Threats: Disturbance, Oil slicks IBA Criteria: Globally Significant:
Rosemary Taylor was along on the Fraser River Trip of October 7, 2011 doing photography. We came across a small green plant, at first thinking they were seedlings sprouting on a sandbank , I called over Terry Taylor for an identification . He immediately came up with the fact that it was a liverwort,
Since 2000, the website www.racerocks.com & www.racerocks.ca have carried the observations at Race Rocks of ecoguardians, wardens, students and faculty of Pearson College. Posts tagged with warden’s reports on the ecoreserves website are located here: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/97+wardenreports/ Posts on the Racerocks.ca site tagged as warden’s reports here: http://www.racerocks.ca/wp/category/er-warden-report/ These reports have been provided by Garry Fletcher
ER #76 – August 20, 2011 Report by Ecological Reserve wardens Bev and Bill Ramey Sunny, hot, with temperatures about 25 degrees C. Water level 2.3 to 2.0 metres at Mission, and at Hope Gauge 6.1 metres. Due to high snow pack and long cool spring extending into June, the Fraser River did not reach
Laurie Rockwell wrote: This plant list is based on Shirley Lamour’s 1975 MA plant thesis, my findings, and those of Don Gayton, l ocal ecologist with FORREX and compiler of this list. We and MOE staff were excited to find almost 100 of the red-listed Dalles Milkvetch this year. It was last reported in Lamour`s
FROM BC PARKS PRESS RELEASE: Det San Ecological Reserve (5.8 ha): This site, close to the Town of Smithers, is being established as an ecological reserve as a result of a private land acquisition. Det san is the Wet’suwet’en name for “juniper”, as it contains a regionally rare example of old-growth juniper. The area also
In May 2011, The Friends of Ecological reserve Board members went to visit Woodley Range, under the guidance of Warden Gary Backlund. These are some of the images Board member Garry Fletcher took on that trip.
From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER SPRING/SUMMER 2011 By Wynne Miles On Sunday, May 8th, seven Friends of Ecological Reserves Board members and two guests drove to the outskirts of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island to meet Gary Backlund and tour Woodley Range Ecological Reserve. Gary, along with his daughter Katherine are the ER
Geoff Styles produced this list of birds of Mara Meadows Ecological reserve in 2010. See Full PDF : marabirds
FRASER RIVER ER#76 SPECIES LIST FLORA Flora from records of J. Pojar in Liner et al. (1983) and past wardens: Anthea Farr (1985 – 1992), Dan Rempel (prior to 1985), assisted by Ray Gurr; and present wardens Bill and Bev Ramey (2003 – 2010), assisted by John Riley Trees alder, red (Alnus rubra) birch, paper
From:THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2010 By Garry Fletcher, Race Rocks ER Warden In an e-mail I received in 2004, Pam Birley told me she was a grandmother living in Leicestershire England, and that she used the remote cameras on the www.racerocks.com website to help her grandchildren learn about the environment. She
Prepared by the Pacific Giant Salamander Recovery Team April 2010 (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) in British Columbia. Prepared for the B.C. Ministry of Environment, Victoria, BC. 42pp. See the full 53 page report :pacific_giant_salamander_rcvry_strat26Apr2010 Cover illustration/photograph Laura Friis EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Pacific Giant Salamander is a large charismatic salamander that can grow up to 30 cm in
