By Mary Rannie: Members of the FER board who drove the 2 hour west coast road from Victoria to Port Renfrew on on August 28th, enjoyed a day greatly anticipated. Garry and Helen Fletcher, Marilyn Lambert andMary Rannie had never visited the nearby San Juan River Estuary, ER #141. From May to October its newly
ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To protect representative old-growth montane forest communities on northeastern Vancouver Island Physical: The reserve comprises mostly southeast-facing and some south-facing slopes of a low mountain ridge. Bedrocks belong to the Island Intrusions formation and surficial materials are till and colluvium. Soils are mostly Orthic Humo-ferric Podzols. See the complete version of this document
Physical: The reserve comprises a flat to gently sloping, wet flood plain that has developed thin peat deposits adjacent to the Tsitika River. Biological: A variety of bog and fen communities are surrounded by a fringe of forest communities. Bog and fen communities are: (1) Labrador tea -sphagnum moss, (2) shore pine-western redcedar-Labrador tea, (3)