Gopher Snake – Friends of Ecological Reserves

Field’s Lease Overview: Physical and Biological

8AprilGarry Fletcher33, Rare Species, Reports, Species ListAntelope Brush, Arrow-leafed Balsam Root, badger, Behr's hairstreak, blue Racer, cactus, Dalles Milk-Vetch, Gopher Snake, long-leaved phlox, pale evening primrose, rabbitbrush, tufted phlox

Original Purpose: To protect a small example of the antelope brush community, the most arid shrub-steppe ecosystem in Canada Physical: Rocky knolls thinly covered with sandy soil form the central axis of this reserve. These are bordered by sandy flats on their west and south sides, and a steep northeast-facing slope along the northeast boundary.

Tranquille Ecological Reserve Overview: Physical and Biological

5AprilGarry Fletcher29, Reports, Species ListAndrosace occidentalis, awned cyperus, Bighorn Sheep, Crotalus oreganus, Dalles Milk-Vetch, dotted smartweed, Gopher Snake, grey horsebrush, Hudson Bay sedge-, Odocoileus hemionus, Ovis canadensis, Pituophis catenifer ssp.deserticola, Poa secunda ssp. sandbergii), slender plantain, western fairy-candelabra, Western rattlesnake

ORIGINAL PURPOSE Preservation of representative ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir ecosystems in a prominent interior valley Physical: This reserve, located on the north side of the Thompson River valley, has two distinct landforms. Its northeastern half consists of steep, gullied slopes which drop away sharply from the Red Plateau to the north. These have much exposed