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2002 Carolinian Canada Conservation Award
Recipients
The Carolinian Canada
Management Committee announced the recipients of three
Conservation Awards for the year 2002.
Ron
Tiessen
Ron
Tiessen
founded the Pelee Island Heritage Centre which works
closely with the island’s burgeoning tourism industry.
He has been critical to the local municipality in
developing a ‘Green Vision’ to set the island an international
leader in eco-friendly economic development.
Currently, he is creating a Stewardship Demonstration Farm
to show how water, air and nature can be protected through
progressive farming techniques.
Patricia
Rhoads
Patricia
Rhoads of Essex County helps landowners who want to make a
difference. She gave local landowners access to specialists by
organizing the first Habitat Restoration Conference in Essex-Kent.
She started a native plant nursery to provide the species needed
in her region. She also co-founded the Canada South Land Trust,
which facilitates landowners in receiving financial incentives for
protecting natural areas.
The
Natvik Family
The
Natvik Family operates swine and crop operations near Highgate in
Chatham-Kent while protecting and ‘adding back’ to their local
environment. They
have restored extensive portions of the farms to native species
and operate a native plant nursery.
With less than 4% forest cover in this part of the
Carolinian zone, this family is critical to protecting what
remains. They network
with neighboring farms to make ‘natural linkages’, implement
eco-friendly agriculture and search out new ideas to help keep the
landscape healthy.
The
Nature
Conservancy of Canada
The Nature
Conservancy of Canada has secured many key natural
habitats across the Carolinian zone including species-at-risk
habitat, wetlands, old growth forests and other habitats at Middle
Island, Bickford Oak Woods, Clear Creek Forest and Stone Road
Alvar, to mention a few sites.
This organization is dedicated to working out creative,
voluntary, ‘win-win’ solutions with landowners.
Conservation agreements with farmers, golf courses and
mining companies result in significant ‘natural saves’ which
rely on compatible, leading-edge land management practices.
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