Gilnockie Creek Ecological Reserve Warden Annie Coulter led the Rocky Mountain Naturalists on a field trip in the fall of 2010. We appreciate permission from Greg Ross to use his images from his Flickr site for this gallery. Hover your cursor on the small images for a title or commentary. Greg has also provided useful
ORIGINAL PURPOSE To conserve a small stand of western larch which includes large, old specimens Physical: The reserve is located on the Okanagan Highland, an upland between the Thompson Plateau and Monashee Mountains. The undulating plateau surface is widely mantled with glacial drift. Piles of large, weathered granitic boulders, uncommon in surrounding terrain, are a
ORIGINAL PURPOSE: To provide an undisturbed area for silvicultural research on western larch, and a genetic bank for that species. Physical: The reserve lies on the relatively flat valley bottom of Gilnockie Creek at its confluence with the Yahk River, which drains southward into Montana. Rounded, forested summits of the Yahk Range (to the west)
Physical: The reserve is situated on gently sloping terrain just north of the summit of Mount Sabine, which marks the southern extremity of the Stanford Range. It has a slight slope to the northwest. Local soils, developed on morainal material which has a limestone component, are believed to be Brunisols. Climate is somewhat cooler and
Purpose Statement : To protect the most southerly known stand of tamarack trees in British Columbia See the complete PDF here: chilako-overview Flora aspen, trembling (Populus tremuloides) birch, scrub (Betula nana) juniper, common (Juniperus communis) Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum) moss, peat(Sphagnum spp.) pine, lodgepole (Pinus contortvar.latifolia) rose, prickly (Rosa acicularis spp. sayi) soopolallie (Shepherdia canadensis)