Jump to content

  • Raven Lake Grove

    David Broadland

    By David Broadland

     Share

    This grove, west of Raven Lake, is mapped in the Old Growth Strategic Review Technical Advisory Panel’s mapping of Remnant Old Ecosystems. Its existence appears to be supported by satellite imagery and a drone flight (see images below), but has not, to date, been ground-truthed. It is in TFL 47.

    The ministry’s Vegetative Resource Inventory identifies this as about 4 hectares of 263-year-old forest (2021). The area’s elevation precludes large-diameter trees and it was likely left because it is on steep slopes.

    638674741_RavenLakeGrove.jpg.20e44008fe1f01184e5406c5eb12363f.jpg

    Satellite imagery shows old forest in the location shown

     

    1767344277_DroneviewofRavenLakeGrove.jpg.382d76ea116112894c74a2ef78f33ab5.jpg

    The area of old forest can be made out in the shadowed mid-ground

     Share
    Go to records

    User Feedback

    Recommended Comments

    There are no comments to display.



    Guest
    Add a comment...

    ×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

      Only 75 emoji are allowed.

    ×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

    ×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

    ×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

    ×

  • The map below is TimberWest’s account of forest by age class on Quadra Island. It doesn’t indicate all of the old forest that has been confirmed by the Discovery Islands Forest Conservation Project, but most of the areas shown in brown are areas of old forest (>250 years).

  •   Return to the Discovery Islands primary forest survey page  

×
×
  • Create New...