Highlights of 2010

When The Couchiching Conservancy crafted its five-year Strategic Plan in 2008, it envisioned 10,000 acres under protection in key areas by 2013. We were on the verge of attaining that goal at the end of 2010. Spurred by the creation of a special fund for acquisition in Carden and the generosity of land- owners, The Conservancy protected 300 acres of high-priority habitat and negotiated conservation easement agreements that will ensure the protection of an additional 485 acres. When those agreements are finalized, it will push us over the 10,000-acre threshold.

Notable in 2010 were:

• The creation of the Carden Acquisition Fund by an anonymous donor. This fund puts $400,000 in matching funds at the disposal of The Couchiching Conservancy and the Nature Conservancy of Canada over two years, and puts both organizations in a position to ramp up land-acquisition activity in Carden.
• The purchase by The Couchiching Conservancy of Wolf Run Alvar, a 300-acre property in Carden, which will help us create a natural link between other Carden conservation lands and Queen Elizabeth II Provincial Park.
• Negotiation of a conservation easement on 85 acres of wetland owned by Lyn Russell in Carden, with final details expected to be concluded in 2011.
• Negotiation of a conservation easement south of Cameron Ranch on 100 acres of mixed forest and wetland owned by Judy and Lou
  Probst, with final details expected to be completed in 2011.
• Negotiation of a conservation easement in north Severn Township on 300 acres of mixed forest, granite ridges and wetland owned by Dr. Nancy Ironside, with final details expected to be completed in 2011. Read More

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