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Gananoque Lake @ Caroline Schultz
The things we buy on Black Friday and Cyber Monday come and go, but nature is forever. You can put your savings from this shopping season towards protecting an acre of vulnerable natural habitat this year. This Giving Tuesday, Ontario Nature is raising funds to permanently protect 360 acres in eastern Ontario on the Frontenac ...
Shoreline wetlands, Lake Gananoque © Caroline Schultz
In eastern Ontario, an ancient seam of granite known as the Frontenac Arch extends from the Canadian Shield in Algonquin Provincial Park all the way south to the St. Lawrence River, and beyond to the United States and the Adirondack Mountains. This singular belt of rugged bedrock—once part of a great mountain range whose craggy ...
Larry Cornelius, Sydenham River Nature Reserve
26 properties, 3,108 hectares. 7,679 acres. Our Nature Reserve Program has been proudly protecting some of the province’s best remaining examples of imperiled and vulnerable habitats since 1961. Our province-wide nature reserve system safeguards habitat for endangered plants and animals, protects biological diversity, sets benchmarks for scientific research and is helping ensure that wild species ...
Right now, we have an incredible opportunity to protect a property totaling 360 acres of prime habitat, and to save endangered and at-risk species in the globally important Frontenac Arch area of eastern Ontario. A rare landscape Here, the Canadian Shield from the Algonquin Highlands meets the Adirondack Mountains from the south, forming part of ...
Stone Road Alvar after the burn © Smera Sukumar
As we watch the devastating wildfires in California rage on, it’s hard to believe that I’m writing a blog about how we started a fire on purpose. But that’s exactly what we did this past September on Ontario Nature’s Stone Road Alvar Nature Reserve. Fire at Stone Road Alvar Nature Reserve Our Stone Road Alvar ...
Pickering, Ajax © Joe Mabel