Introduction To South March Highlands

1. Paul Renaud
Coalition To Protect South March Highlands
[All photos in this presentation were taken in or of the South March Highlands]

2. Gatineau
Park
Shirley’s
Bay
SMH

3. Old Growth Trees
> 100 Years Old
30 Eco-Types
Of Vegetation
10 Distinct
Habitats
Visible Canadian
Shield

4. Beachfront
Property
40,000
Years Ago
When
Champlain
Sea
Covered
Ottawa
Over
1 Billion
Years Old

5. SMH
Headwater
Feeds 50%
of
Shirley’s
Bay
Wetland
Shirley’s
Shirley’s Bay
Brook
Kizell
Drain
South March
Highlands

6. SMH
Natural Eco-
Connection
To
Shirley’s Bay
Wetlands
Fish of Special Concern
(Bridle Shiner)

7. SMH = Densest Bio-Diversity In Ottawa
[Brunton, 2008]
Over 679 Species:
440 Native Plants Unknown Number of
164 Avian Insect & Bryophyte
75 Mammals, Fish, Species
Amphibians, Reptiles
All Within an
Area of 3 x 4 km

8. 895 Hectares 440 Species
Rated ANSI Native Vascular Plants
Highest Floristic
Diversity of Any
Natural Area in Ottawa
5.08 = Highest
Coefficient of 2 Endangered
Conservation in 6 Provincially Rare
Ottawa 64 Regionally Rare
50 Uncommon
Native Vascular Plants

9. 114 Hectares 164 Avian Species
Rated ANSI Observed
1 Endangered
3 Threatened
5 Special Concern 136 Avian Species
30 Regionally Rare Known To Nest in SMH
Avian Species

10. Over 26 identified species of
Herpetofauna
3 Threatened Species
2 Special Concern Insect of Special Concern
(Monarch Butterfly)

11. Endangered or Special
Threatened Concern
 American Ginseng  Bridle Shiner
 Butternut  Short Eared Owl
 Loggerhead Shrike  Black Tern
 Blanding's Turtle  Common Nighthawk
 Whip-poor-will
 Snapping Turtle
 Golden Winged Warbler
 Eastern Milksnake
 Western Chorus Frog
 Olive Sided Flycatcher  Monarch Butterfly
 Eastern Musk Turtle  Bald Eagle
(suspected not observed)  Red Headed Woodpecker

12. Unprotected
Steady Loss To
Development Terry Fox Drive
Extension Creates
“Berlin Wall”
Piecemeal
Protection Urban Clear-Cutting
Scheduled for July 17
Gaping hole
in centre
Already Lost
Since Photo
Was Taken

13. Constance
Lake
North
March
SMH

14. Creates
National Symbol
Of
Stewardship
SMH
Stony
Swamp

15. Islands
Gatineau
Park
Mer
Shirley’s Bleue
Bay
SMH
Leitrim
11 Eco-Corridors
Stony
Linking
Swamp
7 Ecological
Reservoirs

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