How To Manage Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems In BC’s Protected Areas After The Pine Beetle

This presentation  was given in December 2013 by  Alan Vyse of  Thompson Rivers University at the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, BCPARF 2013 – December 3-5th at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops BC. It is presented here as it represents research done in part in Tranquille Ecological Reserve Abstract: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) ecosystems are

Documenting Fire History in a British Columbia Ecological Reserve

Documenting Fire History in a British Columbia Ecological Reserve Don Gayton, FORREX Abstract Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) ecosystems in British Columbia have high concentrations of biodiversity and species at risk, and numerous studies suggest frequent, low-in- tensity fire was a historical disturbance pattern in this ecosystem type. Fire history was analyzed in the Trout Creek

McQueen Creek Biological and Physical Overview

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To protect vegetation typical of the Middle Grassland in interior British Columbia Physical: The reserve lies in the Batchelor Hills area of the Thompson Plateau, adjacent to the valley of the North Thompson River. Soils are predominantly dark brown Chernozems of the McQueen Association, developed on morainal deposits. These are well drained soils

Notes on some Flora of the Skagit Valley

An exerpt from an annotated  report  by Michael Easton done in November 1975 Flora of Skagit Valley See also the management statement reference to  rare steer’s head (Dicentra uniflora) The images above of Dicentra uniflora were provided by Daniel Mosquin of the UBC  Botanical Garden http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2012/03/