Restoring Lands, One Seed At A Time – A Spotlight on New Jersey Tea, Wild Lupine, Butterfly Milkweed
By Emily Ratch, Stewardship and Outreach Technician
Over the past 6 months, some of the LPBLT nature reserves have undergone major restoration efforts, including logging of monoculture pine plantations, prescribed burns to
Oak Savanna Restoration
Long Point Basin Land Trust manages several nature reserves for the restoration of oak woodland-savanna habitat – a unique forest type found on the sandiest soils in Norfolk County. Oak woodland savannas can be found at Harlow Dune Nature Reserve, Stead Family Scientific Reserve, and Trout Creek Nature Reserve. In
Species of the month – January 2023 – Wood Frog
The brumating Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)
By Emily Ratch, Stewardship & Outreach Technician
Winter is a very deceptive season. At a glance, it seems like not much is happening in the natural world; it’s almost like nature is put on pause. But behind the scenes, life is still thriving –
Species of the Month, September 2022: Monarch Butterfly
Species of the Month, September 2022: Monarch Butterfly
by Adam Timpf
I think it’s safe to say that pretty much everybody is familiar with this black-and-orange migratory butterfly that winters in Mexico, and its association with native Milkweeds as the larval host plant here in Ontario. Sometimes people mistake the
Spring Arbour Farm Nature Reserve
Size: 49 acres Protected Since: January 31, 2018 Donor: Joan Shirlow, in memory of Ken McMullen Maintained Trails: No Hunting: No Habitats: Oak Savanna, Early Successional Forest and Carolinian Forest Address: 305 Concession Rd. 7, Langton, ON View Trail Map Take the Arboretum Tour at Spring Arbour Farm—an informative self-guided tour […]
Species of the Month, July 2022: Moths
Species of the Month, July 2022: Moth Nights in Norfolk
by Mary Gartshore
In the 70s I was travelling north in Nigeria when I met a Polish scientist who counted the numbers and species of moths coming to his porch light every night. Decades later I am still impressed
Species of the Month, June 2022: Bumble Bees
Species of the Month, June 2022: Bumble Bees
by Dr. Victoria MacPhail, Research Associate, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
June is International Pollinator Month and so it’s a great time to focus on my favourite pollinators – the bumble bees! These cute fuzzy bees are probably our
Species of the Month, February 2022: Wild Vines
During their winter in Port Dover in 1669-1670, the Sulpian priests Dollier and Galinee made wine from wild grapes as large and sweet as the finest in France. Today a landscape of tidy vineyards, in rolling countryside epitomizes wine tourism from France to Tasmania. Yet, in a natural forest one’s
BLT BIRDERS VISIT ALL TWELVE LPBLT NATURE RESERVES – 2021 BIRDATHON REPORT
The BLT Birders team for 2021 consisted of Audrey Heagy and David Okines. This was their second Birdathon in support of the LPBLT and again took place under a stay-at-home order.
For this year’s effort, Audrey decided that rather than try to maximize the number of species seen they
Species of the Month May 2021: Bats
Species of the Month, May 2021: Bats
by Mary Gartshore
Bats are the only mammal species that can fly.
According to the fossil record, bats have been capable of flight for about 52 million years. Bats belong to the mammalian order Chiroptera with over 1400 recognized species – the second-largest