San Juan River Estuary ER #141 Overview, Biological and Physical

ORIGINAL PURPOSE :To conserve a representative sample of the lower alluvial forest communities on the San Juan River floodplain. Also to protect the redlisted tooth-leaved monkey-flower, endemic to British Columbia. CURRENT PURPOSE: To serve as a benchmark for forest research and to protect early seral floodplain plant communities. See the complete PDF:San Juan River ER

Honeymoon Bay ER #113 Overview: Physical and Biological

Original Purpose: To preserve showy stands of the rare  fawn lily. Physical: The reserve is located where Sutton and Millar creeks issue from the Vancouver Island mountains, depositing alluvial materials in a reach of  reduced gradient, 1.5 km upstream from the creek mouth at Cowichan  Lake. Sutton Creek winds through the middle of the reserve.