Parr Lake Stream. Submitted.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada now owns 294 acres of forest in North Kemptville.
They will also be conserving a kilometre of lake front on Parr Lake as well as the Salmon Lake Brook and its tributaries.
“It has trees that are over a hundred years old and it’s considered to be old growth Acadian forest,” says NCC Media Relations Director Andrew Holland. “There’s only about five per cent of this original forest habitat remaining in the Maritimes.”
The land belonged to Eric Allen. 20% of the land was donated to the NCC. They purchased the other 80%.
Holland thanked the Allen family for the gift of the land.
“This is a piece of land that has been in the Allen family since the 1800’s, we want to really thank them for this gift of land,” says Holland. “The fact that we’re able to conserve this area is awesome. We’re very happy to do that because of the trees.”
The donation portion was made in the memory of Allen’s uncle, Donald Allen.
Over the next few weeks the NCC will be conducting on site checks and biological inventories.
The types of trees found in the forest include red maple, sugar maple, yellow birch, white ash, American beech, red spruce, black spruce and eastern hemlock.
The NCC will also be looking for an invasive species of insect known to eat Hemlock trees, the Hemlock woolly adelgid.
