Total number of
properties secured: 3
Acres (hectares) secured: 41
(17)
Land value:
$73,050
Number of stewardship
volunteers:
10
“When you grow up in Newfoundland
and Labrador, your formative years are
shaped by a strong connection to the
land and sea that stays with you. Over
the years those natural places have been
harder to find and protect. The Nature
Conservancy of Canada provides a way
to ensure that I have such places to go
back to and gives me the opportunity to
make contributions that ensure that
future generations can continue to be
inspired by those natural places that
ground us all as Canadians.”
PIping plover, grand codroy river valley
Photo by Dave Hawkins
LEO POWER
Donor and volunteer
land securement
july 1, 2012–June 30, 2013
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The completion of a number of interesting land
conservation projects, each varying in size. NCC
protected a one-acre (0.4-hectare) property containing
an important stream in the Town of Torbay. In south-
west Newfoundland, NCC conserved a 26-acre
(11-hectare) site in Reidville that contains an impor-
tant population of provincially rare black ash trees.
NCC also added another property to its
focal area, which provides critical habitat for the
endangered piping plover.
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Completing the first draft of a conservation plan for
the Central Newfoundland Natural Area. Measuring
more than 8.4 million acres (3.4 million hectares), this
natural area stretches across most of the northeast
coast from Baie Verte Peninsula to Trinity Bay and
deep into the interior of the island, including the large
forested watersheds of the Exploits and Gander rivers.
This is the largest forested ecoregion on the Island of
Newfoundland, and provides habitat for a number of
at-risk plant and bird species, including the threatened
Newfoundland marten and woodland caribou.
NCC’s groundbreaking research and our
are gaining international
attention. NCC Conservation Planner Lindsay
Notzl travelled to California to present NCC’s
Labrador Conservation Blueprint research project
at two international conferences. NCC will be
publishing two companion hardcopy volumes:
the “Labrador Nature Atlas” and “Ecozones, Eco-
regions and Ecodistricts of Labrador.” A website is
also being developed with interactive GIS capa-
bilities in partnership with Grenfell Campus at
the Memorial University of Newfoundland. It will
allow users to access ecological and project data
to assist in future land-use planning.
Other accomplishments in this province
last year included:
