DUC Property in the Carp Hills Mark Gloutney Director Regional - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

DUC Property in the Carp Hills Mark Gloutney Director Regional Operations – Eastern Canada

Outline of the evening ➢ Overview of DUC – Mark ➢ DUC Carp Hills Property - Mark ➢ Partnership with Friends of Carp Hills – Erling ➢ Ecological Assessment of DUC property – Holly ➢ Input from Community

Previous Commitment ➢ May 9 2018 Public meeting – Report back on ecological assessment and management plan.

What Do We Do? ➢ Make the world better – Protect habitat – Restore degraded habitat

Who we are ➢ Focused on wetland conservation ➢ Science-based ➢ Registered charity supported by a conservation community of 137,000 ➢ 5,900 volunteers ➢ 24,885 landowner partners ➢ Active in every province and territory

CANADA’S WETLAND CONSERVATION LEADER ➢ 10,366 projects ➢ 6.4M acres (2.6M ha) conserved ➢ 3.0M acres (1.2M ha) restored

Wetland loss in Ontario ➢ 1982-2002 loss 175,010 ac (70,854 ha)

What is DUC doing about wetland loss? ➢ Direct conservation work ➢ Policy ➢ Education ➢ Science

Where do we work

Focus area in Ottawa

What Have We Done in Your Area ➢ 59 projects ➢ 19,500 acres ➢ $4.4M invested

DUC Carp Hills Property April 23 2018

Partners ➢ Ducks Unlimited Canada ➢ City of Ottawa ➢ Honeywell Family ➢ Environment and Climate Change Canada

DUC intentions ➢ This is private land ➢ Primary goal is conservation ➢ Public access provided does not impact the conservation goals ➢ No motorized vehicles – except snowmobiles on existing trail ➢ Management plan will detail plans for the site.

GIS data from Scott Langstaff

Partnership with Friends of Carp Hills ➢ Shared vision about conservation ➢ Working together to protect the Carp Hills Sheila Patel

Management Agreement with FCH ➢ Signed Oct 24 2018

FCH Management Agreement ➢ Collaborative development of management plan ➢ Trail location, marking, maintenance ➢ Property monitoring ➢ Assist in conservation activities ➢ Assist in Outreach around the property

Management Plan ➢ Informed by: – Ecological assessment – Public input ➢ Provide the details on how the property will be managed and what is permitted on the property. ➢ Will be updated as we learn

Thank you