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Botanical and Physiographic Reconnaissance of Northern British Columbia Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series Volume 14 Number 4 Article 1 9-1971 Botanical and physiographic reconnaissance of northern British Columbia Stanley L. Welsh Department of Botany, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84601 J. Keith Rigby Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84601 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byuscib Part of the Anatomy Commons, Botany Commons, Physiology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Welsh, Stanley L. and Rigby, J. Keith (1971) "Botanical and physiographic reconnaissance of northern British Columbia," Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series: Vol. 14 : No. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byuscib/vol14/iss4/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. r?. J Brigham Young University haivm u .UJMlVERSiTvirj Science Bulletin BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA by Stanley L. Welsh and J. Keith Rigby BIOLOGICAL SERIES — VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 4 SEPTEMBER 1971 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN BIOLOGICAL SERIES Editor: Stanley L. Welsh, Department of Botany, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Members of the Editorial Board: Vernon J. Tipton, Zoology Ferron L. Anderson, Zoology Joseph R. Murdock. Botany Wilmer W. Tanner, Zoology Ex officio Members: A. Lester Allen, Dean, College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences Ernest L. Olson, Chairman, University Publications The Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, publishes acceptable papers, particularly large manuscripts, on all phases of biology. Separate numbers and back volumes can be purchased from Publication Sales, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. All remittances should be made payable to Brigliam Young University. Orders and materials for library exchange should be directed to the Division of Gifts and Exchange, Brigham Young University Library, Provo, Utah 84601. Frontispiece. Picea glauca woods along the Narrows of the Grand Can\on of the Stikine River, approximately .35 miles npstrcam from Telegraph Creek, British Colnmhia. In this seetion the .Stikine Ri\er has eut a spec- tacular gorjje lip to 1000 feet deep through horizontal Tertiary rocks and underlying steeply folded Triassic and Upper Paleozoic rocks. The riser has an elevation of approximatt'K 1,^00 feet here at approximatelv .58°08' X; i:}0°20' W. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA by Stanley L. Welsh and J. Keith Rigby BIOLOGICAL SERIES — VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 4 SEPTEMBER 1971 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 Location 1 Accessibility 1 PHYSICAL FEATURES 6 \ KGKTATION 12 Boreal forest 12 Alpine tundra 14 COLLECTING LOCALITIES 15 ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 19 REFERENCES 49 BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA bv Stanley L. Welsh' and Keith Rigby- J. ABSTRACT The area of study is located in northern and the plant communities are enumerated. An central British Columbia and includes the Sus- annotated list of 205 species, 11 subspecies, and tut Basin and surrounding mountains. The phy- 35 varieties collected during the summer of siography and geology of the region is described 1969 is included. INTRODUCTION Location north and northeastern area into the Liard River and Arctic drainage. The Sustut Basin and surrounding mountains, the primary area of collecting, are located in Accessibility north central British Columbia ( Fig. 1 ) in parts of the McConnell Creek, Spatsizi, Toodoggone, The area of primary concern is currently Dease Lake, and Cry Lake quadrangles. The accessible only by float planes to the several collecting area, approximately 150 miles long and lakes in the area and by helicopter. Even large 40 to 50 miles wide, extends northward from planes can work from Thutade, Tatlatui, Trygve, approximately .56°39' to 58°30' North latitude, Kitchener, Cold Fish, and Dease Lakes (Fig. 2). and westNvard from 126°.30' to 1.30°30' West Several of the smaller lakes are adequate for longitude. Collections are representative of the landing by either a Beaver or Otter and could region between Thutade Lake and Sustut Peak, function as a secondary campsite or base. A northwestward to Dease Lake, in a belt north- short, graded but unsurfaced, air strip is avail- east of the Skeena River and Little Klappan able at the southeastern corner of the area in River valleys and southwest of the Omineca and the vicinity of Sustut Peak and Moose Valley. Thudaka Ranges in the headwaters of the Sti- The strip is currently maintained by the New kine, Finlay, and Skeena Rivers (Fig. 2). Wellington mine operation and is capable of Prince George is 279 miles southeast of the handling a Twin Beechcraft, although at certain southern part of the basin and Hazelton is 120 times of the year the strip is soft. A second dirt miles to the south-southwest (Fig. 1). Tele- strip is maintained at Hyland Post, in the central graph Creek is 99 miles northwest, and Watson part of the area, on the Spatsizi River. A third Lake, Yukon, is 135 miles north of the northern was contemplated by 1970 at the northern end of part of the area. Cold Fish Lake in the northwestern part of the The Sustut Basin is situated along the Con- basin. tinental Divide between Arctic and Pacific Although no roads lead directly into the area, drainages. Much of the southern part of the several roads are constructed into relatively basin drains through the Finlay River into the nearby areas. An all-weather, maintained, grad- Peace River and the Arctic Mackenzie drainage. ed road leads from Watson Lake and the Alaska The southwestern part drains into the Skeena Highway south to Dease Lake and southwest to River, and the central and northwestern part Telegraph Creek. A spur road is currently under drains into the Stikine River in the Pacific drain- construction which will connect Dease Lake and age. The Kechika and Dease Rivers drain the Stewart. Tliis road is finished as far south as 'Department of Botany. Briphani Young University, Provo, Utah 84fiOI. -Department of Geology. Brigham Young University. Provo. Utah 84601. Bhigham Young University Science Bulletin Kinaskan Lake and could be utilized by field in the summer of 1969. It extends east from vehicles as far as Bob (^uinn Lake in 1969. A near the Stikine River ferry to the southeastern winter caterpillar tractor trail is developed east- margin of the Three Sisters Peaks region, near ward from Dease Lake approximately 20 miles in the northern edge of the Sustut Basin, the vicinity of the east side of Dome Mountain Topographic maps with a scale of 1:250,000 and could afford access to the northern part of are available for the entire area. Relatively re- the area. A mine access road along the north side cent geologic maps are available for the eastern of the Stikine River was under construction late half of the McConnell Creek Quadrangle (Lord, • Whi I e h o r se AREA OF COLLECTION Fort St John Dawson ^/ 6 A George > VA o U. o ^ / o <^ 6 . s Vancouver 100 200 300 400 miles C I—I •"iG. 1. Map of British Columbia showing area of collection. Biological Series, Vol. 14, No. 4 Reconnaissance of Nohthern British Columiua KiG. 2. Map of area of roUection. in north central British Columbia. Brigham Young University Science Bi'lletin Tl'YA BASALT and overlying glacial debris and alUivium Sl'STl'T t.ROUP Well-bedded sandstone, conglomerate, miidstone with minor interbedded dacite tuff, carbonaceous shale and coal, tiroup may include some Qetaceous rocks in the lower part. General; well-bedded and flat lying in plateaus, with ledges and slope*. BOWSER GROUP Interbedded gray -green and dark -gray, thin-bedded mudstone and siltstone, gray- green, thin- to thick-bedded graywacke sandstone, massive to thick-bedded gra)^^ackc pebble- to cobble-conglomerate, with minor thin limestone, coal, and carbonaceous shale units. TAKl.A (.ROL'P \I?.5si\c gray-green, reddish brown, and maroon agglomerate with -ocal lieds of graywacke and tuff with minor siliceous and tuffaccous argillitf and basalt. Forms resistant crags and cliffs in higher ranges of the region. (:Af;HE CREEK GROUP Interbedded chert, graywacke, tuff, basalt, and Ume^one in somewhat cyclic sequence. Limestones arc locally fossiliferous and cherty; grawackc and tuff units are siliceous. Entire unit shows some metamorphism and structural complexity. Forms shoulders below crags of Triassic volcanic section. ASITKA CftOl'P Reddish brown, pinkish itay and bright apple green tuff and argillite with interbedded massive pinkish brown to maroon rhyolite and andesite flows. Forms craggy xposures near the \ alley margins. KiG. .3. (k'dlogical section for Mortliciii Brits . Biological Series, Vol. 14, No. 4 Reconn.^iss.vnce of Nohthehn Biuti.sii Columuia 1948), and Cry Lake Quadrangle (Gabrielse, Survey of Canada (1957). Aerial photographs, 1962) and the Dease Lake Qiwdrangle (Ga- with a scale of approximately 1:30,000 are avail- brielse and Souther, 1961). The Spatsizi and able for most of the area of primary concern Bow.ser Lake (|uadrangle.s are covered as part of through offices of the Geological Survey of Can- the
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