Burren's Acres Management Plan
· Gabriola Island · Reports & Publications · 2016
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Topics: Aquaculture & shellfish · Fresh water & aquifers · Forestry & trees · Bylaw enforcement · Agriculture & the ALR · First Nations & reconciliation · Transportation & ferries · Governance & budget — our classification, not the Trust's.
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Burren’s Acres Nature Reserve Property Management Plan Gabriola Island Prepared by the Approved by the Trust Fund Board November 22, 2016 Resolution # TFB‐2016‐034 Burren’s Acres Nature Sanctuary Management Plan 2016 Page 2 i. Executive Summary Burren’s Acres Nature Reserve is a 2.023 hectare (5 acre) protected area on the west side of Gabriola Island. The reserve is within the asserted traditional territory of eight First Nations and one Treaty Group. Coast Salish First Nations have had a presence on these lands for thousands of years 1 . Farmed in the late 1800s/early 1900s, it was then used for a brief period in the late 1930s and early 1940s for drying and transporting diatomaceous earth. In more recent decades, the property was logged, and related machinery and scrap metal was dumped on the land. The property was donated to the Trust Fund Board by Margaret Taylor in 2013. The donor owned and cared for this property from 2003 by removing a dense cover of invasive species and cleaning up the debris left by logging and industrial use. Burren’s Acres Nature Reserve includes roughly 0.4 hectares of rock outcrop and 1.6 hectares of forest representing the mid‐seral and mature stages of forest succession. Two provincially red‐ listed vegetation communities have been identified on the reserve and there are sensitive herbaceous–rock outcrop ecosystems that are sensitive to disturbance. The Islands Trust Fund (ITF) manages nature reserves and protected areas to ensure that ecological communities and native species are protected in perpetuity. The management vision for Burren’s Acres Nature Reserve is to protect the unique ecological values in perpetuity in order to support a diverse range of native plants and animals. The current threats to this vision include trespass with motorized vehicles and encroachment by non‐native invasive plants. In order to achieve the management vision, the following actions are recommended as resources permit: 1. Conduct annual monitoring to identify management concerns. 2. Continue to have a volunteer warden to monitor the property and identify management concerns such as trespassing, invasive species encroachment and other issues. 3. Develop an invasive species management work plan to guide management and remove invasive non‐native woody species as required. 4. Support research to inform management provided it does not negatively impact sensitive species. 5. Develop a landowner contact program with all landowners within a 1 km radius of the reserve to provide information on conservation and protection of nearby properties and threats to the reserve. The action items will be addressed in priority sequence by Islands Trust Fund staff as resources permit. 1 The Trust Fund Board recognizes that the language commonly used to refer to land is disrespectful to First Nations.
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