ERs of BC by Name

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Ecological Reserves of British Columbia by ER Name (as of February 2013) Note: Ecological reserve numbers marked with * or ** are closed to the public due to the sensitive nature of these areas: * ER subject to special restrictions ** ER closed to the public

ER#		Ecological Reserve Name	Region in BC	Location	Main Purpose	Size (HA)	Size ha marine foreshore
84		Aleza Lake	Prince George Area	NE of Prince George	represents sub boreal spruce forest, lake and wetland communities	242
28		Ambrose Lake	Vancouver Area	Sechelt Peninsula	coastal western hemlock forests and a bog/lake complex	228
13	**	Anne Vallee (Triangle Island)	Northern Vancouver Island	Outermost of Scott Islands	BC’s largest seabird and sea lion colony estimated to support one million birds	119	861
95		Anthony Island (to GHNPR)	Haida Gwaii /	Southern tip of Moresby Island	sea bird nesting colony – 20 islets	44	315
24	**	Baeria Rocks	Southern Vancouver Island	Barkley Sound	protects a seabird colony, preserves rich intertidal and subtidal communities	2	138
151	*	Ballingall Islets	Southern Vancouver Island	7 km NNE of Ganges	established to protect sea bird nesting colonies; Glaucous-winged Gulls, Double-crested Cormorants and Pigeon Guillemots	0.5	0
69		Baynes Island	Vancouver Area	Squamish River	alluvial black cottonwood forest	71
86		Bednesti Lake	Prince George Area	W of Prince George	kettle lake wetland successional sequence	139
12	**	Beresford Island	Northern Vancouver Island	Part of Scott Islands	seabird colony supporting over 150,000 seabirds and 6,000 sea lions	13	412
127		Big Creek	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	SW of Williams Lake	representative grasslands of the Chilcotins, in the Bunchgrass Zone	257
34		Big White Mountain	Okanagan Area	E of Kelowna	subalpine and alpine plant communities	951
71		Blackwater Creek	Prince George Area	NW of Mackenzie	boreal forest and portions of extensive lowland moor	243
58		Blue/Dease Rivers	North Western BC	W of Lower Post	represents terrestrial and aquatic communities in a boreal forest	777
48		Bowen Island	Vancouver Area	W of Apodaca Provincial Park	Douglas-fir and western red cedar forest communities	397
135		Bowser	Southern Vancouver Island	15 km N of Parksville	represents maturing second growth forest in Coastal Douglas-fir Zone	116
121		Brackman Island (to GINPR)	Southern Vancouver Island	N of Sidney	ungrazed Gulf Islands vegetation and marine buffer	5	25
51		Browne Lake	Okanagan Area	E of Kelowna	inland rainforest and marsh community rich in wildflowers	114
6		Buck Hills Road	Okanagan Area	S of Lumby	a stand of older western larch	16
145		Burnt Cabin Bog	Prince Rupert Area	15 km SE of Smithers	protects a large wetland complex that has a variety of bog, fen, swamp and shallow water habitat	670
103		Byers/Conroy/Harvey/Sinnett Islands	Prince Rupert Area	Hecate Strait, NW of Bella Bella	important sea bird and marine mammal breeding area	215	11,708
77		Campbell Brown (Kalamalka Lake)	Okanagan Area	SW of Vernon	ponderosa pine, bunchgrass and rattle snake denning site	107
17	**	Canoe Islets	Southern Vancouver Island	Near S end of Valdes Island	seabird colony originally established for cormorants and sea mammal haul out	0.6
55		Cardiff Mountain	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	W of Taseko River	lava plateau, basalt columns and crater lake	65
146		Catherine Creek	Prince Rupert Area	12 km SE of Hazelton	represents an old growth western red cedar forest in the Interior Cedar Hemlock moist cold subzone	45
50		Cecil Lake	Peace	NE of Fort St. John	sphagnum bog and black spruce forest communities	129
102		Charlie Cole Creek	North Western BC	S of Teslin Lake	unique cone-shaped cold-water mineral springs used by ungulates as salt licks	162
65		Chasm	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	N of Clinton	ponderosa pine community at its northern limit	195
109		Checleset Bay	Northern Vancouver Island	NW of Kyuquot	extensive marine shoreline, reefs and islets, sea otter population, seabirds	487	32,902
57		Chickens Neck Mountain	North Western BC	N of Dease Lake	climax stand of white spruce and subalpine fir	680
79		Chilako River	Prince George Area	S of Vanderhoof	protects most southerly tamarack stand in BC, swamp fen, bog ecosystem mosaic	64
98		Chilliwack River	Vancouver Area	S of Chilliwack	mature alluvial forest with large western red cedars, hybrid spruces	86
107		Chunamon Creek	Peace	NE of Germanson Landing	two small drainages; Engelmann and white spruce	344
82		Cinema Bog	Prince George Area	NNE of Quesnel	lowland black spruce and sphagnum bog	68
75		Clanninick Creek	Northern Vancouver Island	N of Kyuquot	a small, exceptional stand of old-growth Sitka spruce	37
126		Claud Elliott Creek	Northern Vancouver Island	NE Vancouver Island	representative hemlock, amabalis fir and red cedar forest	231
8		Clayhurst	Peace	S of Clayhurst	eroding bluffs with Peace River parklands	316
1	**	Cleland Island	Southern Vancouver Island	Clayoquot Sound, W of Tofino	seabird colony supporting over eleven species of seabirds	7.7	0
20		Columbia Lake	Kootenay Region	East side of Columbia Lake	flora associated with limestone soils	32
136		Comox Lake Bluffs	Southern Vancouver Island	8 km SW of Courtenay	unique botanical phenomena, rare plants	47
108		Cougar Canyon	Okanagan Area	E Side of Kalamalka Lake	mosaic of plant communities in a canyon setting	553
154		Det San	Prince Rupert Area	3.5 km E of Smithers	rare and sensitive grasslands on steep west facing slopes	5.8
25	**	Dewdney and Glide Islands	Prince Rupert Area	Eastern Hecate Strait	seabird colony and extensive bog and fen ecosystems of outer coastal islands	3,326	370
101		Doc English Bluff	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	SE of Williams Lake	limestone cliffs, rare plants; colony of white throated swifts	52
52		Drizzle Lake	Haida Gwaii	SE of Masset	lake and surrounding bogs; unique species of stickleback	837
60		Drywilliam Lake	Prince George Area	S of Fraser Lake	excellent old growth Douglas-fir community in the Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone	95
120	*	Duke of Edinburgh (Pine/Storm/Tree Islands)	Northern Vancouver Island	NW of Port Hardy	seabird colony – largest in Queen Charlotte Strait	125	535
44	*	East Copper/Jeffrey/Rankine Islands (to GHNPR)	Haida Gwaii	Southern tip of Moresby Island	sea bird colony, Ancient Murrelet, Fork-tailedand Leach’s Storm-Petrels	121	0
2		East Redonda Island	Northern Vancouver Island	N end of Georgia Strait	represents elevational transect in the coastal forests of the Gulf Islands	6,212
134		Ellis Island	Prince George Area	W of Vanderhoof on Fraser Lake	inland breeding colony of Herring and Ring-billed Gulls	0.6	6
32		Evans Lake	Kootenay Region	Valhalla Provincial Park	subalpine forest including a rare stand of yellow cedar	185
33		Field’s Lease	Okanagan Area	W of Osoyoos Lake	semi-arid shrub steppe communities of the southern Okanagan Valley	4.2
62		Fort Nelson River	Liard	N of Fort Nelson and Muskwa rivers	productive white spruce and alluvial black cottonwood stands	148
153	*	Francis Point	Vancouver Area	Sunshine Coast west of Pender Harbour	represents biogeoclimatic variants (CWH xm1) sensitive mosses and lichens on the shallow-soiled coastal bluffs	9	8
76		Fraser River	Vancouver Area	N of Chilliwack	alluvial forest of seral cottonwood and willow	177
128		Galiano Island	Southern Vancouver Island	N end of Galiano Island	rare undisturbed peat bog in dry Coastal Douglas-fir Zone	30
133		Gamble Creek	Prince Rupert Area	E of Prince Rupert	north coast forest bog complex, occurrence of Pacific silver fir near the northern limit	1,026
104		Gilnockie Creek	Kootenay Region	E of Kingsgate	mature western larch, seral lodgepole pine, small wetland	58
115		Gingietl Creek	North Western BC	Upstream of mouth of the Nass River	undisturbed watershed in coastal western hemlock forest	2,873
68		Gladys Lake	North Western BC	Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park	the largest ER protecting alpine and subalpine habitat for Stone’s sheep, mountain goat and caribou	44,098
56		Goosegrass Creek	Kootenay Region	W of Columbia Reach, Kinbasket Lake	a drainage basin with an elevational gradient representing inland rainforests	2,185
147		Grayling River Hot Springs	Liard	67 km NE of Muncho Lake	protects a nationally significant hot springs site and related natural values	1,421
117		Haley Lake	Southern Vancouver Island	SW of Nanaimo	population of endangered Vancouver Island marmots	888
100		Haynes’ Lease	Okanagan Area	N end of Osoyoos Lake	represents semi-arid land with “pocket desert” communities	101
87		Heather Lake	Omineca	NW of Mackenzie	excellent example of an aspen stand	248
113		Honeymoon Bay	Southern Vancouver Island	Cowichan Lake	outstanding population of pink fawn lily (Erythronium revolutum)	7.5
137	*	Hudson Rocks	Southern Vancouver Island	25 km N of Newcastle Island	nationally significant breeding colony of endangered Pelagic Cormorants	2	48
64		Ilgachuz Range	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	N of Anahim Lake	subalpine vegetation on the east side of the coast mountains	2,914
116		Katherine Tye (Vedder Crossing)	Vancouver Area	SE of Chilliwack	rare white phantom orchid (Cephalantheraaustiniae)	3.1
96		Kerouard Islands (to GHNPR)	Haida Gwaii	Southern tip of Moresby Island	sea bird nesting colony where cliffs support Cassin’s Auklet, Tufted Puffins	130	0
40		Kingcome River/Atlatzi River	Northern Vancouver Island	Near head of Kingcome Inlet	rich alluvial valley bottom swamp community in coastal forest	414
49		Kingfisher Creek	Kootenay Region	Hunters Range, ESE of Sicamous	represents forest and subalpine communities of the Monashee Mountains	1,495
138		Klanawa River	Southern Vancouver Island	20 km SE of Bainfield	Marbled Murrelets, as well as redwood sorrel and other rare plants	90
129		Klaskish River	Northern Vancouver Island	SW of Port Alice	estuary and alluvial forest in Coastal Western Hemlock Zone, native oysters	92	40
148	*	Kotcho Lake	Liard	100 km ENE of Fort Nelson	fresh water nesting colony of Herring, Mew and Bonaparte Gulls unique in BC	49
4		Lasqueti Island	Southern Vancouver Island	Strait of Georgia, N of Parksville	shoreline forest with Rocky Mountain junipers	201
93	*	Lepas Bay	Haida Gwaii	Off NW corner of Graham Island	seabird colony of predominantly Fork-tailed and Leach’s Storm-Petrels	3.6	0
31		Lew Creek	Kootenay Region	E of Upper Arrow Lake	represents elevational transect of the inland rain forest	896
5		Lily Pad Lake	Okanagan Area	S of Lumby	undisturbed highland forest	101
143		Liumchem	Vancouver Area	16 km S of Chilliwack	represents montane and subalpine ecosystems; rare species and special karst habitat	2,161
36		Mackinnon Esker	Prince George Area	NW of Prince George	represents well developed lichen communities; on a compound esker	583
130		Mahoney Lake	Okanagan Area	S of Okanagan Falls	southern interior saline lake with unique limnological features of international scientific significance	29.5
42	*	Mara Meadows	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	E of Salmon Arm	unique calcareous fen with rare orchids	178
110		McQueen Creek	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	N of Kamloops	native grasses and flowers on a small hill	35
105		Megin River	Northern Vancouver Island	NW of Tofino	typical west coast alluvial and upland forest	50
78		Meridian Road (Vanderhoof)	Prince George Area	S of Vanderhoof	Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir-lodgepole pine forest communities	262
140		Misty Lake	Northern Vancouver Island	12 km NW of Port McNeill	one of only three lakes in the world with the endangered giant black stickleback	73
23	**	Moore/McKenney/Whitmore Islands	Prince Rupert Area	Eastern Hecate Strait	seabird colony of approximately 100,000 birds primarily Rhinoceros Auklet	185	21
81		Morice River	Prince Rupert Area	SW of Houstcn	burnt and naturally regenerating sub boreal spruce forest	358
123		Mount Derby	Northern Vancouver Island	S of Port McNeill	alpine forest and precipitous forested slopes	557
125		Mount Elliott	Northern Vancouver Island	S of Port McNeill	representative subalpine drainage surrounding cirque lake	554
43		Mount Griffin	Kootenay Region	N of Mabel Lake	secondary and climax communities of inland rainforest	1,249
37		Mount Maxwell	Southern Vancouver Island	Saltspring Island	large Garry oak stand in the Gulf Islands	390
19		Mount Sabine	Kootenay Region	N of Canal Flats	mixed conifer forest community with montane climate east of Rocky Mountain Trench	7.9
70		Mount Tinsdale	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	ESE of Barkerville	representative alpine and subalpine communities	419
16		Mount Tuam	Southern Vancouver Island	Saltspring Island	Arbutus, Douglas-fir community	362
112		Mount Tzuhalem	Southern Vancouver Island	NW of Duncan	Garry oak stand, rare flowers	18
53		Narcosli Lake	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	Between Coglistiko and Baezaeko rivers	waterfowl breeding grounds with well-developed aquatic communities	1,098
72		Nechako River	Prince George Area	W of Prince George	protects a vigorous and genetically important tamarack stand west of the Rocky Mountains	133
118		Nimpkish River	Northern Vancouver Island	N of Vernon Lake	representative sample of Canada’s tallest Douglas-fir	19
59		Ningunsaw River	North Western BC	SE of Bob Quinn Lake	coastal western hemlock near its northern limit	2,372
54		Nitinat Lake	Southern Vancouver Island	E shore of Nitinat Lake	steep west coast forest supporting a maritime population of Douglas-fir	79
94		Oak Bay Islands	Southern Vancouver Island	E of Victoria	rare plants, sea birds and marine life	11	221
152		Ospika Cones	Liard	50 km ENE of the N end of Williston Lake	protects fragile cones built by calcium rich springs; wildlife mineral lick	1,282
74		Pacific Spirit Regional Park/U.B.C. Endowment Lands (Metro Vancouver)	Vancouver Area	Pacific Spirit Park	second growth Douglas-fir forests originally established to protect a heron rookery
47		Parker Lake	Liard	W of Fort Nelson	extensive bog habitat with pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea)	259
85		Patsuk Creek	Omineca	N of Mackenzie	paper birch and other seral forest communities	554
99		Pitt Polder	Vancouver Area	S of Pitt Lake	two forested hills surrounded by swamp, fen and bog communities	88
149		Portage Brule Rapids	Liard	110 km SE of Watson Lake	unique hot spring, river bank, and forest environments along the Liard River	724
97	*	Race Rocks	Southern Vancouver Island	SW of Victoria	outstanding marine life, sea lion haul out, sea birds	2	225
26		Ram Creek	Kootenay Region	SE of Canal Flats	hotsprings and regenerating burnt forest communities	121
91		Raspberry Harbour	Omineca	Willisten Lake NW of Finlay Forks	high quality lodgepole pine stand for the benefit of forest research	143
111	*	Robson Bight (Michael Bigg)	Northern Vancouver Island	Tsitika Valley, Johnston Strait	orca rubbing beach and critical habitat area	467	1,248
150		Rolla Canyon	Peace	near Dawson Creek	protects special natural, cultural, heritage and recreational features	43
18	**	Rose Islets	Southern Vancouver Island	N of Reid Island	originally established for a cormorant colony, still used by seabirds	1
10		Rose Spit	Haida Gwaii	NE point of Graham Island	sand spit, open dunes and shoreline meadow communities	170	0
22		Ross Lake	Okanagan Area	Skagit Valley Recreation Area	ponderosa pine in Coastal Douglas-fir forest	61
83		San Juan Ridge	Southern Vancouver Island	E of Port Renfrew	protection of rare white avalanche lily (Erythronium montanum)	98
141		San Juan River Estuary	Southern Vancouver Island	5 km NE of Port Renfrew	representative alluvial forest communities; red-listed tooth-leaved monkey-flower, endemic to BC	185	16
11	**	Sartine Island	Northern Vancouver Island	part of Scott Islands	seabird colony supporting approximately 3/4 of a million sea birds	30	1,061
67		Satellite Channel	Southern Vancouver Island	N of Saanich Peninsula	subtidal marine ecosystems	0	340
15		Saturna Island (to GINPR)	Southern Vancouver Island	Southern ridge of Saturna Island	young and mature Douglas-fir forest	131
46		Sikanni Chief River	Liard	Headwaters of Sikanni Chief River	Engelmann spruce at the northern edge of its range and subalpine lichens	2,401
89		Skagit River Cottonwoods	Okanagan Area	Skagit Valley Recreation Area	excellent cottonwood stands reserved for gene pool purposes	69
21		Skagit River Forest	Okanagan Area	Skagit Vailey Recreation Area	coast to interior transition zone mixed species in Douglas-fir forest	69
106		Skagit River Rhododendrons	Vancouver Area	Skagit Valley Recreation Area	two stands of California rhododendrons; fire induced seral forest	70
63		Skeena River	Prince Rupert Area	Near mouth of Exchamsiks River	mature black cottonwood stands on an alluvial floodplain	91
92		Skihist	Vancouver Area	NE of Lytton	ungrazed ponderosa pine-bunchgrass community	40
88		Skwaha Lake	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	N of Lytton	subalpine forest and flower meadow communities	850
80		Smith River	Liard	Near junction with Liard River	representative of boreal black and white spruce communities	1,326
3		Soap Lake	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	S of Spences Bridge	saline lake and grassland community of the dry interior	884
14	**	Solander Island	Northern Vancouver Island	W of Brooks Peninsula	seabird colony in excess of 100,000 birds primarily Cassin’s Auklet	7.7	0
131		Stoyoma Creek	Vancouver Area	near Boston Bar	meeting of three biogeoclimatic zones; to conserve special seed provenances	76
39		Sunbeam Creek	Prince George Area	N of McBride	subalpine communities of the western edge of the Rocky Mountains	511
90		Sutton Pass	Southern Vancouver Island	W of Port Alberni	rare northern adder’s-tongue fern (Ophioglossum vulgatum)	3.4
41		Tacheeda Lakes	Prince George Area	N of Prince George	forest communities representative of the MacGregor Plateau	526
119		Tahsish River	Northern Vancouver Island	S of Port McNeill	pristine west coast estuary	56	31
38		Takla Lake	Prince Rupert Area	E of Hazelton	most northerly occurrence of Douglas-fir in the BC interior	240
66		Ten Mile Point	Southern Vancouver Island	Victoria	intertidal and subtidal marine ecosystem	1	14
73		Torkelsen Lake	Haida Gwaii / Prince Rupert Area	W of Babine Lake	low moorlands with cloudberry	182
9		Tow Hill	Haida Gwaii	NE Graham Island	forested sand dunes, swamp and peat bog communities	450	69
29		Tranquille	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	W of Kamloops	ponderosa pine and sagebrush communities	235
132	*	Trial Islands	Southern Vancouver Island	S of Oak Bay	outstanding assemblage of rare plant species	23
13	**	Triangle Island (Anne Vallee)	Northern Vancouver Island	Outermost of Scott Islands	BC’s largest seabird and sea lion colony estimated to support one million birds	119	861
7		Trout Creek	Okanagan Area	SSW of Summerland	represents ponderosa pine parkland communities	75
122		Tsitika Mountain	Northern Vancouver Island	S of Port McNeill	alpine communities, wet subalpine forest, unusual terraced fen and small lake	554
124		Tsitika River	Northern Vancouver Island	S of Port McNeill	low elevation bog, fen, swamp complex	110
61		Upper Shuswap River	Kootenay Region	E of Mabel lake	western red cedar community in the inland rainforest	70
30		Vance Creek	Kootenay Region	N of Lumby	Douglas-fir and Englemann spruce forests and riparian communities	49
45		Vladimir J. Krajina (Port Chanal)	Haida Gwaii	W coast of Graham Island	pristine shoreline, subtidal forest, muskeg andalpine communities plus a sea bird colony	8,057	1,117
35		Westwick Lake	Williams Lake / Kamloops Area	S of Williams Lake	shoreline and grassland community surrounding an interior Chilcotin lake	27
27		Whipsaw Creek	Okanagan Area	SW of Princeton	ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir stands, open grassy understory	32
114		Williams Creek	Prince Rupert Area	SE of Terrace	representative coastal western hemlock forest and outstanding terraced bogs	700
142		Woodley Range	Southern Vancouver Island	2 km N of Ladysmith	exceptional plant species richness; sensitive meadow and woodland ecosystems	166
144		Yale Garry Oak	Vancouver Area	E of Yale	protects the most easterly isolated Garry oak ecosystem	11.65
139		Yellowpoint Bog	Southern Vancouver Island	formerly Ladysmith Bog, 10 km S of Nanaimo	unique biological association of bog plants, sphagnum mosses, bladderwort, sundew, etc.	138
					TOTALS	112,543	51,731

(GINPR) – ER transferred to the Gulf Islands National Park, (GHNPR) – ER transferred to the Gwaii Haanas National Park, Metro Vancouver – ER transferred to Metro Vancouver

155………..Pink Mountain (Proposed ER)–

156………..Elphinstone Additions (Proposed ER)– Vancouver Area- Includes Dakota Bowl

157…………Eosine Fossil Sites (Proposed ERs)– Okanagan

158…………Koksilah/Eagle Heights (Proposed ER)– Southern Vancouver island

159…………Fording River Grasslands (Proposed ERs)– Kootenay Region

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