Mt. Trematon Management Plan

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MOUNT TREMATON NATURE RESERVE 
MANAGEMENT PLAN 
MAY 22, 2007 
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MOUNT TREMATON NATURE RESERVE 
MANAGEMENT PLAN 
 
 
 
 
MAY 22, 2007 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approved by the Trust Fund Board 
(Resolution # TFB 07/922) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE 
 
The original version of this management plan, dated May 22, 2007, was completed by 
Doug Hopwood RPF, under contract to the Islands Trust Fund. Any later versions may 
have been altered and are not the responsibility of the original author. 

 



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
 
The Islands Trust Fund’s Mount Trematon Nature Reserve on Lasqueti Island, British 
Columbia was established in 2006. The property is approximately 57 hectares (140 acres) 
in area. It includes the summit of Mount Trematon, which is the highest point on Lasqueti 
Island (330 m elevation) and a unique geological feature. The property is physically 
rugged and steep, spanning an elevation range of over 200 m. It is generally forested, and 
has approximately 15 ha of original old-growth forest. The remainder of the property has 
been logged and approximately 10 ha remain deforested.  The property was donated by 
the Gordon family to the Islands Trust Fund in 2006 to be managed as a nature reserve. 
 
The Islands Trust Fund (ITF) is a conservation land trust established in 1990 to preserve 
and protect unique ecological or cultural properties in the Islands Trust Area. Islands 
Trust Fund policy requires that a management plan be developed for all properties that it 
owns or manages. The purpose of this Management Plan is to: 
• Provide a description of the biophysical attributes of the property;  
• Identify key conservation values; 
• Identify management issues; and 
• Recommend actions or strategies to address management issues. 
 
The main objectives for management of the Mount Trematon Nature Reserve include: 
• Conservation of the key natural ecosystem values of the reserve; 
• Allowing natural ecological processes to function without human interference, 
except in the case of wildfire; 
• Ensuring that permitted uses do not significantly impair the natural condition of 
the land or impact on special features; and 
• Allowing, but not promoting, minimal impact use of the reserve for hiking, nature 
appreciation and similar activities. 
 
The key conservation values of the Mount Trematon Nature Reserve are associated with 
the following features: 
• Old growth forest belonging to red-listed ecological communities, in relatively 
undisturbed, late-seral condition; 
• Occurrence of the red-listed plant species hairy gumweed (Grindelia hirsutula 
var. hirsutula), the only recorded occurrence of this species in British Columbia; 
• Trematon Creek and associated riparian areas which includes elements of one red-
listed and one blue-listed ecological community, currently in moderately degraded 
condition due to logging, but with good potential for recovery either naturally 
over time or through ecological restoration;  
• Mount Tremat

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