Nature Notes

Lambton Wildlife works towards conservation, preservation and protection of the natural environment in Lambton County by acting as a Land Trust. We own and/or manage parcels of ecologically important lands in the county. These are:

- Port Franks Forested Dunes Nature Reserve
- Ipperwash Dunes and Swales Nature Reserve
- Mandaumin Woods south of the village of Mandaumin
- Karner Blue Sanctuary in Port Franks

Lambton Wildlife members have been amazingly supportive of our Land Trust function, in particular in making donations to land purchases. Over the years, we’ve had a small group of very dedicated volunteers take-on the maintenance of these properties. We now need more of your help to make sure that we look after these properties properly. We hold work parties in the spring and fall, which are great seasons to be outdoors in nature, and we leave the hot and buggy season to the animals and plants that live there.
 

Some of the maintenance activities we do include:

  • - identifying rare species and noxious weeds
    - inventorying the plants and animals that live there
    - removing invasive species mechanically or by hand
    - maintaining and clearing trails    ls

You don’t have to be botanists or wildlife biologists. You don’t have to know species’ Latin names. You just have to want to learn more about what wonderful plants and animals we have living on our properties.


There is some maintenance work that requires specialized safety training like tree removal and chemical spraying (with Roundup™) of non-native invasive weeds. Volunteers who want to assist with these jobs will need chainsaw training and chemical spraying training. This is necessary to ensure the safety of all who assist on work parties. LWI is organizing chainsaw and chemical applicator courses for interested volunteers.

Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering. Help out as much as you want, whether it’s just on one property helping with trail maintenance or on all four properties with more than task. However much you help will make a difference!

Malcolm Boyd (Chair, Land Trust Committee)
519-344-4414 or boydmbnh@cogeco.ca

John Bellar (Manager, Maintenance Programs)
519-869-4526 or johnbellar@sympatico.ca

 
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