Property Info

This property is a pretty, four acre inland parcel located upstream from Lock 45, the outlet of the Trent Severn System at Port Severn. The property is located in the transition area, also referred to as the “contact zone”, between the Precambrian bedrock that defines the Canadian Shield and the Paleozoic bedrock that characterizes southern Ontario. This creates an interesting assemblage of species at the extremes of their southern and northern ranges, resulting in an area with high biodiversity in vegetation community types, flora, and fauna.

Almost the entirety of this property is dominated by dense Sugar Maple and Eastern Hemlock forest, and it borders on a productive wetland on one side. The property donors report sightings of Whip-poor-wills and Monarch butterflies, and the adjacent waterfront property provides habitat for Snapping Turtles and Little Brown Bats.

This property has been donated to the Land Trust as a life interest gift, meaning that the donors will retain use of it for the rest of their lives, after which point full use will pass to the Land Trust. Because of this, the donors have asked that their names and the exact location of the property remain anonymous for now. The Land Trust would like to thank the donors for their conservation-mindedness and generosity.