BC’s Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity

This report was published in April 2020 Authors: Karen Price , PhD.,  Rachel F. Holt, PhD., R.P.Bio and Dave Daust R.P.F., M.Sc. See the full pdf of the report here: bcs-old-growth-forest-report-web Conclusions Productive old forest has almost vanished across BC. Low productivity inaccessible old forest remains in some forest types. Forest policy in BC does

The Roberts Creek Headwaters Ancient Forest

On July 11 2013,   Ross Muirhead, Bill Legg and Hans Penner of Elphinstone Logging Focus, an environmental group based in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, took Helen and I up to up to a small patch of forest presently included in a BC Timber Sales Block (BCTS) Cutblock DK045.  They had identified this area with concern for

Williams lake Ecological Reserve Management Plan

Ecological Reserve Attributes Conservation • Williams Creek Ecological Reserve is situated in the under represented Nass Mountains Ecosection (4.57%). The ecological reserve contributes minimally however to the representation of this ecosection (1.21% of the overall protected areas system representation of the ecosection). See the Complete PDF:williams_cr Williams Creek Ecological Reserve is situated in the Coastal

Virgin Douglas Fir on Saturna Island: 1979

T.P Sullivan published a paper on a survey of Saturna Island Ecological reserve provided a description of its virgin Douglas Fir  (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forest.  The vegetation was quantitatively analyzed with respect to structure and composition. The tree strata dominated the structure of this reserve followed secondarily by the low shrub ad bryophyte strata. Pseudotsuga menziesii