Gabriola Island Trust Area Includes:

Gabriola Island Local Trust Area includes 20 associated islands including:

  • DeCourcy Island
  • Link Island
  • Mudge Island
list of all Islands

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Meet Your Local Trust Committee

Tobi Elliott

Tobi Elliott

Gabriola Island Trustee, Executive Committee Vice-Chair

Susan Yates

Susan Yates

Gabriola Island Trustee

Laura Patrick

Laura Patrick

Salt Spring Island Trustee, Islands Trust Council Chair

 

 

Island Profile

Gabriola Island Local Trust Area includes over 20 islands. The local trust area features critical habitat for the Marbled Murrelet seabird and is frequented by Double-crested Cormorants. Vital to salmon, 21% of the Gabriola Local Trust Area foreshore has eelgrass beds and many beaches are suitable spawning habitat for forage fish, the principal diet of Chinook salmon.

Eelgrass beds

21

%

of foreshore

Protected areas

9.2

%

protected

Wetlands

16

%

of area

Sensitive Ecosystems

36.9

%

of area