A presentation on many aspects of the environment in Quesnel, BC.

1. Quesnel’s
Natural
Features:
A Slide Presentation
Produced By:

2. Funding
Provided By:
Living Landscapes: Upper Fraser
Basin-Past, Present and Future
Royal British Columbia Museum
Government of British Columbia
The British Columbia Gaming
Commission
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Habitat Conservation and
Stewardship Program

3. Photos and Research
Information Generously
Provided by:
• Marie Weldon
• Tracy Bond
• Fin Donnelly
• Judy Campbell
• Shane Smith,
Department of
Fisheries and Oceans
• Cris Guppy, Ministry
of Forests
• The Forest
Alliance/COFI
• The Gold Rush Trail
Development
Cooperative
• Quesnel Visitor
Information Centre
• Hazel Massier
• Shirley Swann
•The Cariboo
Chilcotin Tourism
Association
•Bo Mills
•Peter Couldwell
•Dave Healy
•Betty Motherwell
•Mike Stini
•Stefan Himmer,
Arctos Wildlife
Services and
Photography
•Karl Himmer
•Jennifer Brandle-
McCall
•Quesnel and District
Museum and Archives

4. And Also…
•Manfred Roschitz
•Vivian Wurm
•Roy Howard
•Bob Michek,
South Hill
Graphics
•Ray Coupe,
Cariboo Forest
Region, Ministry
of Forests
•Cheryl Loyd,
Diamond Island
Ranch
•Maurice Lirette,
Ministry of
Environment,
Lands and Parks
•Jola Jarecki
•The Quesnel
Observer
•Lorna Schley
•Lorene Rome
•Guy Scharf
•Marion Walker
•Paul vanPeenen
•Lora Lee Sutton
•Dora McMillan
•June Zadorozny
•Uli Augustin
•Andy Motherwell
•Dave Healy
•Earl Erb
•Graeme Little
•Olive Armitage
•Gloria Lazzarin
•Joanne Hockett

7. How Has
Quesnel’s
Landscape
Been
Formed?

10. Tectonic
Activity

13. Glacial
Activity

16. Volcanic
Activity

23. Erosional
Activity

26. Fluvial
Activity

29. What Are
Some of Our
Plant
Communities
?

30. Trembling
Aspen

32. Interior
Cedar
Hemlock

34. Engelman
Spruce/
Sub-Alpine
Fir

36. Lodgepole
Pine

38. Black
Cottonwood

40. What Are
Some
Examples of
Animals that
Share Our
Community?

50. Which
Animals are
of Special
Concern in
the Quesnel
Area?

61. Other Animals of
Special Concern
Include:
• Chiselmouth (B)
• American Bittern (B)
• Sandhill Crane (B)
• Long-Billed Curlew (B)
• Common Pika,
septentrionalis (R)
• Fisher (B)
• Wolverine, luscus (B)

62. Where do
Our Rivers
Start and
Where do
They End?

66. Why Are
Salmon
Significant to
Quesnel?

71. Salmon Facts
• Salmon don’t eat
on the long
journey home.
• Cold water
contains more
oxygen than
warm water.
• Salmon all
belong to the
same genus
Oncorhynchus
which is Latin for
“Hook-nosed”.
• Half of a
salmon’s body
weight consists of
muscle.

72. Where Does
Quesnel’s
Drinking
Water Come
From?

74. What
Impacts
Your
Water?

75. What Are
Some Ways
We Can
Enjoy
Quesnel’s
Natural
Features?

86. Express
Your Love
of Nature
Through
Creative Art

90. Sleeping in the Forest
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed,
nothing between me and the white fire
of the stars but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths among
the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom,
By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
By Mary Oliver

91. Where Are
Some of Our
Local Trails?

96. Where Are
Some of Our
Local
Waterfalls?

102. Thank-you for
Joining us.
Enjoy Nature!