Every seed planted, every acre restored, every species safeguarded, and every donation — helps form a living network of care that keeps our forests, prairies, and streams thriving.
With your support, Long Point Basin Land Trust carries out countless acts of stewardship each year to keep our protected lands healthy and resilient. These include monitoring species at risk, restoring native prairie and forest habitats, removing invasive plants like Phragmites, maintaining trails, and planting native trees and shrubs to strengthen wildlife corridors.
Each act, whether it’s a day of fieldwork, a volunteer planting, or a season of habitat monitoring, helps ensure that the forests, grasslands, and wetlands of the Long Point basin continue to thrive for generations.
Every Gift Is an Act for Nature
Purchasing land for conservation is only the beginning. Stewardship is the ongoing care that keeps these places healthy—restoring habitats, managing invasive species, and ensuring wildlife and native plants can thrive. By supporting both land protection and stewardship, we help the natural beauty and biodiversity of Norfolk and the Long Point basin region endure for generations.
Habitat Restoration at Harlow Dune
At Harlow Dune Nature Reserve, a rich mix of mature swamp forest, oak woodland, savanna and dry sand barren, our volunteer superstars, the Tree Amigos, continue oak savanna restoration through thinning over 3 hectares of conifers to increase sandy openings favoured by a wide variety of prairie insects and plants. Work also included invasive species control and the removal of a building to further enhance natural habitat on the site.
Stewardship actions are maintaining open habitat with low tree cover that encourages the resurgence of native prairie plants such as New Jersey Tea and Wild Lupine, creating conditions needed for butterfly species such as the Mottled Duskywing and Karner Blue to return.
Endangered butterfly reintroduced
The endangered Mottled Duskywing butterfly has been reintroduced to Long Point Basin Land Trust’s Stead Family Scientific Reserve in Norfolk County—its first return to the area since the late 1980s. The release, led by the Ontario Butterfly Species at Risk Recovery Team with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, marks a major step in restoring this species to its historical range.
Through ongoing habitat restoration at properties like Stead, LPBLT is helping to create the oak savanna conditions and native plants, such as New Jersey tea, that the Mottled Duskywing depends on to survive and thrive.