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Dear
Kathy,
Now that we're
all back from summer holidays, it's TIME to
- annually
gather to see land truster familiar faces
- meet new land
truster types
- learn more
about conservation easements...and more!
This year we'll
be gathering in Ottawa with land trusters from across the country - so
please make an extra effort to come out for this years conference. OLTA
has a limited number of conference travel brusaries available
- apply today.
Canadian
Land Trust Conference 2007
National Conference Centre, Ottawa , ON
October 18-20,
2007
Presented
by Canada Land Trust Alliance and
Ontario Land
Trust Alliance
OLTA CONFERENCE TRAVEL BURSARIES
ARE STILL AVAILABLE!
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GBLT Tree Poster Contest
Shoot a tree.
Save the Bay.
Give us your best shot.
Here's your chance to
have your photograph published on the 2007 "Trees of Georgian
Bay" poster. The Georgian Bay Land Trust will be publishing a
Limited Edition poster, "The Trees of Georgian Bay".
Deadline for submission
is October 11th, 2007.
For
more details, go to: www.gblt.org
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Current Information Standard - 2f
Coming Soon - OLTA to provide update service
Please let us know if there is a registry or newsletter
or other source OLTA should be receving to provide you with up to date
news on changes in law and policy relevant to your land trust.
OLTA currently subscribes to:
-- Carters Charities Tax E-News
-- what other source do you recommend?
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TTLT has reached their goal!
$660,000 raised for Joany's Woods - Congratulations
The Thames
Talbot Land Trust has raised the $660,000 needed to buy the land after
a contribution of $237,500 from the province's Ontario Greenlands Fund.
"This is
huge for us, probably a once-in-a-generation opportunity to have a
woodlot of this size become available," said Don Gordon, executive
director of the trust.
Congratulations
to everyone at TTLT!
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Funding This Fall
Deadlines
Ontario Trillium
Foundation - November
1
United Way - remind your donors they can give to the United
Way campaign and designate all or a portion of their gift to you
Community
Climate Change Fund - $6.6
million over four years for not-for-profit groups at the local and
grassroots level to "educate on global warming, and to run
programs in Ontario communities that reduce greenhouse gases".
The media release is at http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/news/2007/081001.php
and you can enter your e-mail address to receive news of the
application process at this site http://www.gogreenontario.ca/cggf.php.
To put this in perspective, the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers estimated that there was 377 grants to Ontario
activities for a total of $21.4 million from 24 different funders. The
new fund works out to about an 8% increase in available funding, said
Ontario Conservation Council.
Green Pitch - FRIDAY OCTOBER 26TH, 2007 · 1:30pm-4:00pm Bata
Shoe Museum · 327 Bloor St West
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Congrats to Ducks Unlimited
Wetlands Win with Ontario
Government Announcement
BARRIE (August
17, 2007) Ducks Unlimited Canada applauds the Ontario government's
commitment to the conservation of wetlands and wildlife habitat.
Effective
September 1, 2007, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment intends to
exempt wetland and wildlife conservation projects from administrative
fees associated with permit to take water applications.
Ducks
Unlimited Canada and other conservation organizations involved in the
restoration of wetland habitat are required to apply for permits to
take water for each restoration project and, until now, have been
required to pay the associated administration fees. The cost of these
permits has been a considerable financial challenge for Ducks Unlimited
Canada, directing tens of thousands of dollars towards fees rather than
critically important wetland restoration work. The cost of these
permits has also been a barrier to stewardship efforts, as private
landowners interested in undertaking a wetland restoration project were
reluctant to navigate an expensive and difficult permitting process.
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HHLT - Kennisis Lake
Article Subtitle
 Cold and wet weather that felt
more like October weren't enough to thwart a July 14 celebration of
Bruce Carruthers' donation of a Kennisis Lake island to the Haliburton
Highlands Land Trust.
Almost a hundred people at the Kennisis Lake
Marina went for a boat ride over to the island to witness the
signing of a management agreement between the Trust and the Kennisis
Lake Cottage Owners' Association.
The KLCOA, which is well on its way to raising the
$50,000 endowment fund needed to manage the island in perpetuity, and
the Trust, will have three representatives each on a joint committee
that will manage and protect it.
The 22-acre island is to be known as Norah's Island for
Carruthers' late wife. Carruthers donated the property to the Land
Trust to honour her memory.
At the Saturday afternoon event, members of the Trust,
KLCOA and the Carruthers family took part in a ribbon-tying ceremony
that symbolized their partnership. Trust chair Ian Daniel, KLCOA
president Duncan McCallum and Carruthers took part in the signing of
the management agreement.
Most of the KLCOA's legwork was done by its lands
committee, chaired by Jeff Pinkney. More than 120 families, individuals
and businesses contributed to the endowment fund.
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A tall story of
survival
Birds,
Beavers and Butterflies festival celebrates the outdoors and the
history of Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve - Saturday, September 15
Thickson's Woods Land
Trust Annual Fundraiser
At the southern tip of
Thickson Road in Whitby, another world exists.
Oblivious
to the heavy industry that surround them, the ancient white pines
making up the Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve were once tapped to make
masts for the British Royal Navy. Those that remain are more than 100
feet tall and more than a century old. In the spring, cars line the
waterfront trail that meanders through the reserve known as one of the
few resting areas for migrating warblers along the urbanized lakeshore.
Each
fall, the Thickson's Woods Land Trust, the guardians of this protected
haven, hosts a festival for young families. Birds, Beavers and
Butterflies began as a fundraiser to help purchase an adjoining meadow,
but over the last five or six years has become much more, says
treasurer Brian Steele. "It's really to keep Thickson's Woods in
the public eye and to get kids interested in nature," he says of
the event, which returns Saturday, Sept. 15.
Long-time
members of the Thickson's Woods Land Trust recall how it all started in
1983, when the developer owner of the woods sold the logging rights and
the earth began to shake as one huge pine fell after another. Sixty-six
pines were lost before a small group of naturalists were able to
mobilize the following spring. They dipped into their savings to make
the $30,000 down payment to purchase the more than 16 acres of woods.
Through yard sales, art raffles, birdathons and donations, the then
Thickson's Woods Heritage Foundation managed to pay off the $60,000
mortgage over the next five years.
To
help buffer the woods from surrounding development, the group was able
to raise enough funds to purchase just over eight acres of meadow to
the north of the woods for $531,000 in 2001. This July, it added a
quarter of an acre in the southwest corner of the woods purchasing the
property from a private owner.
Mr.
Steele says the reserve is unique in that it's open 24/7 and attracts a
wide variety of people, from dedicated naturalists to workers at nearby
auto manufacturer Johnson Controls taking their lunch break there. The Thickson's Woods Land Trust was
one of the first protective groups to register as a land trust and now
protects in perpetuity 24-and-a-half acres along Whitby's shoreline.
"We've
been able to protect some habitat for birds and animals in the middle
of this urban sprawl," adds board member Dianne Pazaratz.
"It's one of the only places left."
Birds, Beavers and
Butterflies takes place Saturday, Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5 for an adult, $2 for
kids, and $10 for a family. Creepy Kritters, featuring snakes and
spiders, runs shows at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Other events include magician
Warren Toaze, a Do-it-Yourself tent by Home Depot, butterfly tagging
and bird banding displays, face painting, rock painting, a bake and
plant sale, insect identifying and woods tours.
With
notes from Walter Passarella / Metroland
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Long Point Basin Land Trust
The Long Point Basin
Land Trust will be able to further it's work thanks to the Ontario
Trillium Foundation.The Land Trust announced earlier last month it has
received over 70 thousand dollars to undertake important conservation
work in the central Carolinian Region including Norfolk County, the
Long Point basin, and surrounding areas. The funding will help the Land
Trust develop conservation education materials, train volunteers, and
develop its capacity for land stewardship.For more information visit www.lpblt.on.ca
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Victor and I
will be attending our first Rally in Denver, October 3-6. please
let us know if you need us to
- attend a
certain workshop (no guarantees here as we are already registered but
we could copy the handout at least)
- ask a
question of someone.
LOOK FORWARD TO
SEEING YOU ALL AT THE CANADIAN CONFERENCE IN OTTAWA - OCTOBER 18-20!
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Kathy Allan & Victor Reyes
Ontario Land Trust Alliance
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