Misty Lake sticklebacks COSEWIC asessment and status report: chapter 10

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Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

The lake, and a small area around it, is located within the boundaries of the Misty Lake Ecological Reserve, established for the protection of the larger lake stickleback before it was recognized as part of a parapatric lake-stream pair. Less than 50 m of inlet stream habitat, above the swamp, is included within the boundaries of the ecological reserve. The important habitat for the inlet form is located above the highway culvert outside of the reserve; none of the outlet is captured in the reserve. Thus, the ability of the ecological reserve to function even as it was originally intended to protect the lake population is limited and virtually useless in protecting the inlet population.

The British Columbia Conservation Data Centre ranks the Misty Lake sticklebacks as S1.

Paxton, Enos and Vananda sympatric benthic-limnetic pairs are currently listed as endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and the Hadley Lake benthic-limnetic pair is considered extirpated by COSEWIC.