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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

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DUC Property in the Carp Hills

Mark Gloutney Director Regional Operations – Eastern Canada

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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

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Previous Commitment

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

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What Do We Do?

➢Make the world better –Protect habitat –Restore degraded habitat

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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

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CANADA’S WETLAND CONSERVATION LEADER

➢ 10,366 projects ➢ 6.4M acres (2.6M ha) conserved ➢ 3.0M acres (1.2M ha) restored

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Wetland loss in Ontario

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

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What is DUC doing about wetland loss?

➢ Direct conservation work ➢ Policy ➢ Education ➢ Science

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Where do we work

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Focus area in Ottawa

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What Have We Done in Your Area

➢ 59 projects ➢ 19,500 acres ➢ $4.4M invested

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DUC Carp Hills Property April 23 2018

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Partners

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

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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.

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GIS data from Scott Langstaff

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Partnership with Friends

f Carp Hills

➢ Shared vision about conservation ➢ Working together to protect the Carp Hills

Sheila Patel

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Management Agreement with FCH

➢ Signed Oct 24 2018

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FCH Management Agreement

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

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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

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