A DECADE OF PROTECTING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE Celebrating Our Past Turtles Make Use of Barrier Wall 2015 Enviro-Heroes On the Lookout: Invasive Species Celebrating Our 10th Nature in the ‘Hood Anniversary 2015-16 HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS LAND TRUST BUSINESS CARDS LETTERHEAD ENVELOPES FLYERS BROCHURES RACK CARDS POST CARDS POSTERS PRESENTATION FOLDERS INVITATIONS NEWSLETTERS COUPONS For over 65 years, LABELS Parker Pad & Printing has helped clients make great ideas fly off the page! ADS We are your eco-friendly, digital, offset and post press provider, fully equipped to take your project GIFT CERTIFICATES from initial concept to final mailing and distribution. We offer full service digital and offset print production as well as bindery, finishing and fulfillment. TICKETS With our longstanding dedication to quality and client service, we back our customer promise with experienced practitioners and state-of-the-art technology. 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She rehabilitation and alternative energy systems. Lee plans to retire in has a private practice in Toronto and the Haliburton area in the next few years. Haliburton and provides counselling, Brigitte Gall trauma and attachment therapy, energy Brigitte has had a number of incarnations healing, facilitation and training. She was along her diverse career history. She shot the founding Executive Director of the 52 episodes of the renovation/design Emily Murphy Shelter for Women in North Vancouver and the show “Me, My House & I” as well Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic in Toronto. Dianne is also as travelling to 53 countries for “The a fabric artist whose quilting and felt work reflects the gifts and World’s Greatest Spas.” Among other beauty of nature. awards and nominations, Brigitte won a Scott Durie – Treasurer Gemini Award for “Joan of Montreal.” Scott is a management consultant who Most recently, she was a councillor in owns his own firm in the Toronto area. Minden Hills. She sat as the chair of the community engagement He is a retired marine systems engineer committee, youth advisory committee, Cultural Centre advisory from the Royal Canadian Navy who committee, and municipal representative on the county food has travelled extensively, but never feels assessment committee. more at home than in the Haliburton Simon Payn Highlands. A seasonal resident of Simon is a former journalist who quit the Kennisis Lake for more than 50 years, high-pressure world of newspapers and Scott brings his passion for the outdoors online media in Europe and Toronto to and the environment to the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust. run his business by a lake in Haliburton David Lawrance – Secretary County. Simon, who was born in David has been a seasonal resident of England, moved to Canada six years ago the Haliburton Highlands for over 26 and immediately felt at home. Now he years. A supply chain management and enjoys poking around the woodlot by his facility management professional, Dave house, watching it change from season to has led large teams in Canada and the season. He is currently co-chair of the Lands Committee. United States over his 30-year career. Chris Whittemore He is a passionate volunteer, having Chris is a retired nurse who lives in dedicated himself to roles with the Supply the Village of Haliburton. Her many Chain Management Association, Abbey outdoor activities include cycling, hiking, Gardens, Volunteer Builders, and George Brown College. canoeing, camping and dragon boating. DIRECTORS She has been involved with the Land Trust gala for three years and has been Dr. Lee Battiston the gala chair for the last two years. She is Lee Battiston and his family have been also chair of the Dahl Forest Management cottagers in Haliburton for the last 35 Committee and sits on the Lands years. Lee is a former manufacturing Committee. We welcome her great organizing skills, efficiency, executive with global business experience. and passion for the Dahl Forest and the work of the Land Trust. He retired from the manufacturing sector in 2008 and returned to school to complete a PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph. A DECADE OF PROTECTING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE PAGE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Our Board of Directors 3 Celebrating Our Past A big thank you to our sponsors and advertisers 4 Supporters Reflect On the Past for making this publication possible and 5 Celebrating Our Volunteers supporting the work of the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust. 6 Turtles Make Use of Barrier Wall 7 2015 Enviro-Heroes SPONSORS 8 Map of Our Nature Reserves Parker Pad & Printing Ltd. Inside Front Cover 9 About Our Nature Reserves 11 Invasive Species/Nature in the ‘Hood The Highlander 12 12-13 Library Collaborates with the Land Trust ADVERTISERS 14 How to Get Involved 16 Membership Abbey Gardens 10 Cabins at the Domain 15 Welcome to a very special edition of Wild About Nature. This year’s magazine marks the Haliburton Highlands Land Canoe FM 15 Trust’s 10th anniversary, so we thought it appropriate to look back at some of our achievements this past decade. Country Rose 10 No organization can succeed without people, and in this Glenside Ecological 15 magazine we recognize the hard work and dedication of some of SPONSORS&ADVERTISERS our founding volunteers. Their energy and effort is remarkable. The Land Trust has grown rapidly over these past 10 years. Gloria Carnochan 5 We now have four nature reserves under our management. We have a commitment to species at risk and our MNR-funded Haliburton Appraisal Services 10 turtle monitoring program has completed its second year, with the barrier fence we erected proving a success. We hope that Haliburton County Public Library 13 this will be a beacon for similar initiatives beyond Haliburton County. Our commitment to education remains strong and we Harold Woodward 5 will continue our Nature in the ‘Hood: Discovery Days in 2016, thanks to a grant from TD Friends of the Environment. Lands and Forests Consulting 10 Every growing organization faces its stresses and strains – and the Land Trust is no exception. But thanks to the strong support Laurie Scott MPP 10 we have among our supporters and members, I can see the organization only going from strength to strength. With every Linda Baumgartner 10 challenge, we take the lessons and make every effort to learn from them towards our goal of becoming stronger. Master’s Book Store 15 On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to thank the advertisers in this magazine, as well as Parker Pad & Printing. And finally, Terry Carr 15 thank you for reading and for continuing to support our work. Dianne Mathes Todd’s Independent Grocer 15 Acting Chair A DECADE OF PROTECTING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE PAGE 2 CELEBRATING OUR PAST By Mark Arike How it All Began Ziman recounted the Land Trust’s first year, which was full of Over 10 years ago, seasonal resident Ian Daniel recognized the meetings about policy. need to bring a Land Trust to the Haliburton Highlands. He “My eyes glazed over at those meetings because all we talked about then took it upon himself to bring members of the community was bylaws,” she laughed. together to do just that. While the organization’s main mission was identified early on, “I guess I was the initiator, because I was in a position to see how Ziman said little was known about what exactly needed to be the idea met with people’s approval and interest—and it did,” said protected. Daniel, who was a member of Environment Haliburton (EH!) at “Almost nothing had been done up north here. Yes, we wanted to the time. protect the natural heritage, but we didn’t really know what was EH! became aware of a conference being hosted by the Ontario sensitive.” Land Trust Alliance, and Daniel volunteered to attend. What he A few years in, Ziman was made aware of a grant available discovered was that there were many counties in Ontario that had through the Ministry of Natural Resources that would enable the formed successful land trusts. organization to find out what species at risk were in the county. EH! then hosted a seminar on land trusts, which included guest She phoned up local wildlife biologist Paul Heaven and told him speakers from other land trusts in the province. about what she had in mind. “There were about 35-40 people that came to that seminar,” he “He got really excited and we put together our first grant. And of recalled. “The response at that seminar was really quite good.” course, the board was supportive.” In 2004, seven volunteers formed the first board of directors. At that time, 21 species at risk were identified. The following year the Land Trust was incorporated, registered As the person who led the charge, Daniel looks back fondly on his as a charitable organization and approved time on the board.