fragments – 1979 – June

Barely grazed semi-desert brush with bunchgrass and sage, Field’s Lease Ecological Reserve near Osoyoos

Written on June 29th, 1979 , Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, semi-arid interior British Columbia the northern margins of the Great Basin steppe desert

Historic Garry oak savannah becoming woodland because of fire suppression, Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island

Written on June 15th, 1979 , Coastal Douglas fir forest and parkland at its northern margins around the Salish Sea, Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem, Northern Garry oak, Quercus garryana, ecosystems on the Salish Sea, traditional indigenous / aboriginal food plant

Dune forest with Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis, below Tow Hill

Written on June 15th, 1979 , Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Haida Gwaii, island ecosystem, temperate rainforest dominated by Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)

Mount Tuam Ecological Reserve, Salt Spring Island

Written on June 10th, 1979 , Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem

Panoramas & vistas looking south-west and north-west from Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve, Salt Spring Island

Written on June 8th, 1979 , Coastal Douglas fir forest and parkland at its northern margins around the Salish Sea, Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem

Garry oak, Quercus garryana, woodland, Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve, Salt Spring Island

Written on June 8th, 1979 , Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem

savanna Garry oak, Quercus garryana, snag in oak woodland, Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve, Salt Spring Island

Written on June 8th, 1979 , Coastal Douglas fir forest and parkland at its northern margins around the Salish Sea, Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem

Former Garry oak, Quercus garryana, savannah overgrown with Douglas fir because of fire suppression

Written on June 8th, 1979 , Coastal Douglas fir forest and parkland at its northern margins around the Salish Sea, Ecological Reserves under the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act, Gulf Islands of British Columbia & drier parts of south-eastern Vancouver Island, historic Garry oak (Quercus garryana) savannah typically the result of Salish food production & burning, island ecosystem

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visual, textual & territorial investigations of some ecosystems and cultural landscapes along and near the West Coast of North America