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Number 37 Newsletter of the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Protecting the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve Spring 2015 Precipice Number 37 Newsletter of the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Protecting the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve Lorie Waisberg has donated 147 acres of land and a Six new conservation agreement south of Woodford in Meaford right beside the Niagara Escarpment and Reserves Bruce Trail. It is quite an honour to be able to protect one of the last private waterfalls on the Escarpment. Lorie and his family Now 44.3 have protected this property since sq. km protected 1973 and gradually converted the farmland to forest. There are three 10,948 ac tributaries of the Bighead River crossing the property, one with a 373,000 dramatic gorge and waterfall. Years $13, ago, the family donated the west part of the property to the Bruce Trail. 64 rare species New Reserves: Book ………………..9 acres Page 3 Springer Glenelg...100 acres Page 5 Kendall …………....8 acres Page 6 Stephens …..……....13 acres Page 6 Skeoch……….…….68 acres Page 6 Events …………………………Page 2 Nature’sVisit our Benefit Website Fund www.escarpment.ca …..….. Page 4 New rare Species Our new 2014 reserves brought us the habitat where we have identified the following rare species: Bald Eagle, Barn Swallow, Blandings Turtle, Bobolink, Butternut, Canada Warbler, Caspian Tern, Common Nighthawk, Missing Pieces We are exchanging offers with the owners of Dwarf Lake Iris, Eastern Meadowlark, Eastern Whip-poor-will, our “missing piece” at Alvar Bay. We’ve agreed on the price, now Eastern Wolf, Eastern Wood Pee wee, Golden-winged Warbler, we’re just finalizing the details. The other property we’ve featured, Harts Tongue, Hills Thistle, Little Brown Bat, Massassauga, with all that alvar at Little Pine Tree Harbour, is now waiting for Milksnake, Monarch, Northern Map Turtle, Painted Turtle, Environment Canada approval. We’ve had it with them since early Peregrine Falcon, Red Headed Woodpecker, Snapping Turtle, December, but approvals seem to take six to twelve months after we Wood Thrush. That’s 26 species found on one or more of our get the material together in about six weeks. new reserves. Not bad for one year. Let’s keep it up! See us this Spring Our next events are: Green Living Show in Toronto at the Convention Centre on Front Street March 27-29. Earth Day at Markham Town Hall on April 11. Sources of Knowledge in Tobermory May 8-10. Manitoulin Trade Fair May 29-31 at Little Current. Our AGM is on June 28 at Whole Village in Caledon. Please join us, we are looking for a few new board members. Try to visit. We’ll have our newest maps and pictures of our new reserves. We’ll probably have a nature walk and post it on Facebook and our email blast, call or email for exact info. We’ll try to get Richard Aaron to interpret what we see. An upcoming reserve near Durham After that it’s a bit more speculative, dates to be determined, call or email to check whether we’ll be there. EBC’s New Web Site Providence Bay, Aug 14-16 Take a look! Our bold new format has arrived, more or less. EBC’s Butterfly Festival in Tobermory, August 22-23. See us We’re still putting up pictures and directions to our reserves, but at the Visitor Centre and 681 Cape Hurd Road for banding its coming along pretty well. Now that Novina Wong has and nature walks on our reserve. converted it to Wordpress, mere civilians can add events and Chatsworth Sept 12-14 announcements fairly easily. Thank you Novina! Ripley, September 26-27 Pumpkinfest in Port Egin, October 3-4 WWW.ESCARPMENT.CA You can visit a reserve any time. Visit our web site for directions Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy or give us a call. The map on the web site will show you those 503 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario M4V 1B8 tel: (416) 960-8121 toll free: 1-888-815-9068 reserves near you. email: [email protected] website: escarpment.ca If your group has an event, let us know. Bob is organizing a date Facebook.com/Escarpment BiosphereConservancy in 2015 to speak at the North Peel Field Naturalists and will lecture at Trent March 24. We appreciate the opportunity to speak Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy - Contact List at service clubs and community organizations. Our message: Only For help with... Please contact... 4.37% of Southern Ontario is protected as a park or nature reserve. Land, general Bob Barnett (416) 960-8121 You can be part of the movement to correct this problem. Steward Chair Malcolm Silver (416) 225-5190 a reserve or introduce us to your friends who care about their land. Secretary James Murdoch (416) 518-5850 Your investment in land is probably your best charitable Newsletter Bob Barnett (416) 960-8121 investment. Land Stewardship Bill McMartin (416) 575-7795 Vice Chair Gunter Springer (519)-794-4002 Treasurer Tim Watson (416)-960-8121 Invest in nature. Freer Point Roy Jeffery (705)-368-3377 Telecom Anna Barnett (416) 960-8121 Every $1 invested returns $18 every year. We hope Grants, events Bob Barnett (416)-960-8121 investors will take a small fraction (say, 5%) of their Fax (416) 960-9460 investment returns and use it to protect nature’s services like air and water cleaning, and the tourism, recreation and education The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy is a registered charity whose nature brings us. That helps everyone in the community. mission is: a) To establish, maintain and manage a system of nature Nature’s Benefit Fund is a great way to “Green” your portfolio. reserves in the area of the Niagara Escarpment (including the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve), including the maintenance of physical features of scientific and/or ecological, cultural, historic or Niagara Escarpment Views features an article scenic interest; to maintain, enhance or restore areas of native species by Bob Barnett in each quarterly issue reaching 30,000 people or natural habitat; and to encourage and support scientific research along the Escarpment. Last issue featured our new rare species and educational services related thereto; and b) To educate the public while the next issue will show how you can “green” your about conservation and preservation of the landscape, ecology and wildlife of the Niagara Escarpment partly through providing low investment portfolio by donating to Nature’s Benefit Fund. impact, ecologically sustainable recreational opportunities which complement and do not substantially conflict with this objective. Precipice - Newsletter of the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy - Spring 2015 - Number 37 Page 2 Butterfly Festival Join us again this year August 22-23. Last year we tagged 21 Monarchs and had lots of people join us for our nature walks along the Alvar Bay shore. Great work by Audrey Armstrong, Anna Barnett, Morgan Roblin and Lenore Keeshig Tobias brought many families into the picture; the Monarch’s migration is very important and needs our help growing milkweed anywhere we can, especially in fields free of GMO crops which are heavily sprayed with herbicides. Air Miles help usWe immensly. tagged 21 Use Monarchs, our card andup gain anonymity from the storesfrom that only track one your last puchases.year. Recently we received a new digital camera, a 300-mm lens and a hand-held GPS. That saved us about $1,200. If you shop at the LCBO, Metro or buy gas from Shell, you can be adding Air Miles to our account. You can also transfer your Audrey Book has owned a 9-acre triangular points from your account over to us. Just phone or email if property on the south side of the Cameron Lake Road for you’d like a card. many years. Her family approached us after her death last year Bob with the to see if we wanted to add it to our Adams reserve next grand children door.This forested property is our first 2015 reserve. The big picture here is that we have further buffered the National Park which abuts the Adams Reserve to the south along a kilometre long property line while this new addition protects about 300 metres of the north Adams boundary . Right across the road from Dorcas Bay, this property is part of the Cameron Lakes Dunes ANSI. You’ll see it as you drive north on Highway 6. We now own the last 600 m on the east side before the Cameron Lake Road. Obama to Get every Kid in a Park A walk in the woods will change a child’s life. That is, if she ever makes it to a trailhead. U.S. President Obama unveiled the “Every Kid in a Park” initiative to connect children and their EBC’s Cup and families with the great outdoors, ensuring millions of kids, Saucer, 10,000 people regardless of where they live, will have an opportunity to take a year their first step in nature. The initiative will provide free entrance to America’s treasured public lands for every fourth grader, and they get to take their families too, free of charge. Most kids live Toronto Dominion’s Friends of the in urban areas; funding cuts have cut field trips and the barriers to spending time in nature are big for low income families. Environment Foundation granted EBC Source: Sierra Club. Ed note: see our “Health comes from funding to prepare access trails in our Bruce Peninsula Nature” article in Precipice and Niagara Escarpment Views. reserves and provide baseline reports for our work on Manitoulin. This grant came along at the perfect time. We got new access signs made up by our friend Peter Jennings to announce “Biosphere Trails” access points. Then we got Don Graham and Morgan Roblin working on baseline reports for our new reserves.
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