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It was announced last week the Nature Conservancy of Canada has now acquired 350 hectares of critical forests, wetlands and freshwater shoreline just north of Kingston. Eastern Ontario Program Director Rob McRae talks about these three properties in Westport, Battersea and Perth Road.
McRae talks about these three properties are located.
McRae describes some of the benefits to the three properties.
The properties in the Frontenac Arch connect Ontario’s Algonquin Highlands with the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.
Project at a glance:
• The newly protected properties provide habitat for species at risk, such as Blanding’s
turtle, gray ratsnake and eastern whip-poor-will.
• The Christie Lake project protects 1.2 kilometres of undeveloped shoreline and
contributes to a 33-square-kilometre block of intact habitat that connects to Frontenac
Provincial Park and other conservation lands.
• The Upper Awada Lake project anchors the western edge of the Loughborough
Wilderness and bridges two major conservation areas, enhancing landscape
connectivity.
• The Loughborough Wilderness project expands NCC’s conservation footprint in the
region, protecting high-quality forest and wetland ecosystems and reinforcing a North/South forest core linkage in eastern North America
(By: Tim Baltz)
Photo Credit: Christie Lake – Frontenac Arch, ON – Photo by Razor Aerial Productions