Sitka spruce – salmonberry association – Friends of Ecological Reserves

Update on Clack Creek Logging and Robert’s Creek Headwaters Forest

May 26: Update from Elphinstone Logging Focus Please note that Roberts Creek Headwaters Forest has been removed from the BCTS Planning Schedule. For a few years it appeared as an OGMA, but they don’t want that designation. The BCTS Forest Planner at the time (Norm Kempe in Campbell River) urged us to contact FoER and have you folks submit it as an ER

Skeena River Islands Overview: Biological and Physical

13FebruaryGarry Fletcher63, Rare Species, Reports, Species ListAlces americanus, Bull Trout, Dolly Varden, Grizzley Bear, Malaxis brachypoda, moose, Salvelinus malma, Sitka spruce – salmonberry association, white adder’s-mouth orchid

ORIGINAL PURPOSE To set aside unlogged floodplain islands for research on succession in black cottonwood communities. Physical: The reserve comprises three large and four small islands in a low-gradient reach of the Skeena River where reduced river velocities allow sediments from upstream to settle out, forming many bars and islands. The river is slightly sinuous