Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park
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Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park
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| location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| surface | 84.49 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 18499 | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 7 ′ N , 124 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | May 18, 1973 | |
| administration | BC parks | |
| particularities | Marine reserve | |
The Desolation Sound Provincial Marine Park is a provincial park in Canada's British Columbia . The marine reserve was founded in 1973, is around 84 km² and only accessible by boat. Because of the picturesque bays, the protected area is very popular with yacht and pleasure boat enthusiasts. On land, the wooded slopes rise steeply to the glaciers and mountains , and are occasionally interrupted by waterfalls. The park is located in the Qathet Regional District and is the second largest marine provincial park in British Columbia after the Broughton Archipelago Marine Provincial Park .
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The sanctuary is 20 miles north of Powell River and 150 km north of Vancouver in Desolation Sound . The protected area includes the water bodies within the protected area boundaries, as well as several small islands and parts of the mainland on the eastern bank of Desolation Sound.
The park is a category II protected area ( national park ).
history
As with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia, this one too was the hunting and fishing area of various First Nations tribes , mainly the Sliammon , long before the area was settled by European immigrants or when it became part of a park .
The area in which the park is located was verifiably explored by Europeans, under Captain George Vancouver , for the first time in 1792.
Flora and fauna
At the transition between Sunshine Coast and Coast Mountain, the predominant climatic zone in the park is that of the temperate rainforest . Within the British Columbia ecosystem, the park area is assigned to four different zones, the Mountain Hemlock Zone , the Coastal Western Hemlock Zone with the subzones Very Dry Maritime , Dry Maritime and Very Wet Maritime and the Mountain Hemlock Zone with the subzone Windward Moist Maritime . These biogeoclimatic zones are characterized by the same or a very similar climate and the same or similar biological and geological conditions. This results in a very similar population of plants and animals in the respective zones.
In addition to the Douglas fir and the giant arborvitae, it is mainly the West American hemlock that grows here (called “Coastal Western Hemlock” in English-speaking countries). However, deciduous trees such as the red alder also grow in the park. The age of the trees in the park is not uniform. Mostly it is a second vegetation after forestry use. Sometimes there are also places with original and very old vegetation. The trees are often covered with epiphytic lichens and mosses. Here, too, the forest has partly an undergrowth of ferns and heather plants such as the Shallon pseudo-berry or the red huckleberry .
Desolation Sound Marine Park's body of water represents approximately 35 percent of British Columbia's protected water body.
Web links
- Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
- Desolation Sound Marine Provincial Park In: Park's English-language website at BC Parks
- Information to the park on britishcolumbia.com (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Desolation Sound Marine Park (English)
- ↑ Management Plan for Desolation Sound and Copeland Islands Marine Parks and Tux'wnech Okeover Arm Provincial Park. (PDF; 2.62 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks , February 2008, accessed December 30, 2012 .
- ^ Ecosystems of British Columbia. (PDF; 9.85 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations , February 1991, accessed December 30, 2012 .
- ↑ Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, accessed May 3, 2016 .