Russell Reserve Lord’s Bay
This property is accessible by permission. If you’d like to visit, please contact Aaron Rusak at (416) 440-1519 x 103 or aaron.rusak@gblt.org.
Property Details
Size: 2 acres
Location: Severn Township
Year Acquired: 2013
Donated by: David Russell, Michael Steven Brown, Mary Elizabeth Jeffries
Stewards:
Blair Meisner
Myron Frost
Johan Klepp
Property Info
This 2-acre property, located in Severn Township, includes extensive shallow and coastal wetlands. The entire Lord’s Bay is a large shallow marsh with submerged and floating aquatic vegetation, providing ideal habitat for turtles and fish, including feeding and spawning grounds. The islands include areas of cattail marsh and Sweet Gale thicket shore wetlands, with the interior dominated exclusively by Sugar Maple-Oak deciduous forest, a community that is rarely found along the eastern shore, where soil accumulation is limited by the Precambrian Shield. The land donor installed a number of nesting boxes for Wood Ducks which are used frequently.