Duffey Lake Provincial Park
IUCN Category II - National Park
Board with information to the park at the eastern end of the Duffey Lake, 2004
The Duffey Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located approximately 35 kilometers east of Pemberton near the Duffey Lake Road (Highway 99) south-east of D'Arcy in the Squamish Lillooet Regional District.
Plant
The park covers an area of 4,048 hectares, which extends in a narrow strip on the south shore of the lake, reaches out further on the north shore and western reaches up to 2438 meters high Mount tube. Here, the park is intersected by running on the south shore Highway 99. In the park is a protected area category II (National Park).
Further to the southwest is the 1,460 hectares with significantly smaller Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, in the southeast of 107,200 hectares with about 25 times as large stone Nlaka'pamux Valley Heritage Park.
History
The park was established on 14 June 1993.
The Duffey Lake and the Cayoosh Creek Valley were already in early times a communication path between the Lillooet Lake and the Fraser River St'at'imc direction. The path led while on the eastern shore of the lake. Archaeological investigations in 1999 made no discoveries, but plays the lake in the oral tradition of the Indians surrounding an important role.
Ecology
The park has above all the task of protecting the ecosystem of the Leeward Pacific Ranges. It represents the flora and fauna, including mountain goats, black and grizzly bears, but also osprey and Canada herons, the transition zone between the ecoregions of the coast and those of the hinterland. Therefore, only 5% of the park area are provided as a recreation area.
1999, a management plan was adopted at the N'Quatqua and St'at'imc or Mt Currie Indian band participated in their traditional territories, the lake is located. Traditional rights of use but also had the Cayoose Creek Indian Band, today's Sekw'elw'ás First Nation. The plan should explicitly only persist as long as no agreements between First Nations and the province have come into existence. If these contracts are in contradiction to the management plan, it must be renegotiated.
Within the ecosystem of British Columbia, the park area is classified into four different zones of the Interior Douglas - fir zone, the Coastal Western Hemlock zone, the Englemann Spruce - Subalpine fir zone and the Alpine tundra zone.
Accordingly, the zones can be found in the park, among other Western Hemlock, Douglas fir and red cedar, but also lilies ( Clintonia uniflora ).
While the Interior Douglas - fir zone and the Coastal Western Hemlock zone are located in the lower elevations of the park, about 1300 meters above sea level is found from the Englemann Spruce - Subalpine fir zone. Here are Subalpine Fir, Engelmann spruce, and fir - purple, the prevailing tree species. From about 1700 meters the Englemann Spruce is - Subalpine fir zone replaced by the Alpine Tundra zone.
For the fish population of the lake include bull trout, Dolly Varden trout and Coregonidenart Prosopium william soni (English Mountain whitefish ).