Approved Land Use Strategy > Appendix A -- Conservation Reserves

Appendix A: Summary of Land Use Areas and Area-Specific Policies

Conservation Reserves C

ID: C2	NAME: Crotch Lake	AREA (HA): 358	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A stand of relatively undisturbed medium-aged to mature conifer forests on dry, rocky portion of the northern shoreline of Crotch Lake in site district 5e-11. Originally known for its white and red pine, the Crotch Lake stand also contains a significant hemlock component. This upland conifer habitat is known on granite elsewhere, but grows here on thin, sandy soil of glacial outwash. It is provincially significant upland conifer forest.

ID: C3	NAME: Hungry Lake	AREA (HA): 3,519	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: One of the largest, relatively undisturbed granite bedrock barrens in site district 5e-11. The vast outcrops of bare granite are cloaked in blueberry and low shrubby juniper and savannah-like forests of red and white oak. There are pine and poplar stands as well, but oak parkland dominates the area. The outcrops plunge down in long ridges, creating long, narrow wetlands and cool environments that favour black spruce, balsam fir and cedar. When bedrock restricts the drainage even further, there are small bogs of spruce and tamarack.

ID: C10	NAME: Crowe River Swamp	AREA (HA): 155	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Provincially significant wetland complex on granite bedrock in site district 5e-11. Contains flooded forests and natural levees along the Crowe River that support white elm, silver maple and green ash. Back from the river are stands of black spruce and cedar. This is the biggest and least disturbed collection of deciduous swamp habitats in the area. Like other large wetlands of the area, it has developed on top of wide flat deposits of glacial outwash and ancient lake deposits. It is bounded by landforms that were in contact with the glaciers - kame moraines that are found in few other spots in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality, conservation authority and private landowners on protection of private land portion of this wetland.

ID: C11	NAME: Lingham Lake	AREA (HA): 1,388	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Large shallow lake known for excellent bass fishery and waterfowl habitat in site district 5e-11. Uplands dominated by a young to medium aged mixed and deciduous forest of Trembling Aspen, Red Maple, Red Oak, Sugar Maple, White Pine and White Birch on granite bedrock thinly covered with sandy till soils.
LAND USE INTENT: The area presents an opportunity for enhancing wildlife and fisheries values, provided that it is consistent with protecting the values for which this area was protected. Further planning and public consultation will examine the opportunity to link the Lingham Lake, Elzevir Peatlands and Mount Moriah into one protected area.

ID: C14	NAME: Mellon Lake	AREA (HA): 5,440	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Mellon Lake has the typical bare rock ridges and ridge and valley topography known in site district 5e-11. It is linked with two other significant natural ecosystems in the area: the Kaladar Jack Pine Barrens and the Puzzle Lake area. The rock barrens and other habitats support rare animals - such as the Prairie Warbler and Five-lined Skink -- and several rare plants. Close to 600 native plants grow here, including unusual population of cactus growing in the dry barrens. Other important features include the wide diversity of upland and aquatic habitats and a provincially significant wetland along Clare River.
LAND USE INTENT: Further planning will review the opportunity and need to include Crown lands immediately north of this area into this conservation reserve and to include the Little Skootamatta provincially significant wetland into the Kaladar Jack Pine Barrens Conservation Reserve.

ID: C17	NAME: Elzevir Peatlands	AREA (HA): 2,468	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: One of the largest mostly continuous peatlands in southern Ontario. This area, in site district 5e-11 has a collection of low ridges that poke through a flat wetland system. There are bog-rimmed ponds and lakeshores, open grassy bog mats, kettle bogs and shrubby heathlands. Surrounding these habitats are upland forests of red oak, red maple, white pine, white birch and trembling aspen. Rare plants such as orchids and bladderworts and "Atlantic Coastal Plain" species thrive here.
LAND USE INTENT: Further planning and public consultation will examine the opportunity to link the Lingham Lake, Elzevir Peatlands and Mount Moriah into one protected area.

ID: C18	NAME: Mount Moriah	AREA (HA): 2,256	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The most dramatic landscape feature in south central Hastings County -- hundreds of feet above the surrounding land -- Mount Moriah is also an intact natural ecosystem. The soils are thin, supporting juniper and blueberries. There are vast areas of open rock barrens, extensive granite barrens, steep bedrock slopes, small cliffs and outcrops. Where forests exist, they are often scrubby red oak and poplar, although there are some larger dry stands of trembling aspen, white pine, sugar maple and white spruce. This diverse topography has trapped water in many shallow ponds, bogs and flooded areas. Mount Moriah is in site district 5e-11.
LAND USE INTENT: Further planning and public consultation will examine the opportunity to link the Lingham Lake, Elzevir Peatlands and Mount Moriah into one protected area.

ID: C21	NAME: Loon Lake Wetland	AREA (HA): 308	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Provincially significant wetland in site district 5e-7 between Loon, Turtle and North Muldrew lakes. The area has a high diversity of wetland types. There are more than 300 species of plants, and numerous rare plants and animals.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C23	NAME: Morrison Lake Wetland	AREA (HA): 70	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Crown land portions of this provincially significant wetland on the west side of Morrison Lake in site district 5e-7. The wetland includes rich aquatic communities with emergent-submergent marshes and floating leaved communities, with more than 450 species of plants including numerous rare plants and animals. The Morrison Lake Wetland is municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C24	NAME: Sharpe Bay Fen	AREA (HA): 482	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The relatively large and undisturbed fen and peatland in site district 5e-11 supports large black spruce and cedar stands, fen forests, as well as open black ash and cedar swamps. The fen changes from shrubby to forested land, with only a few open water patches. The organic soils of the fen area are overtop of extensive marble deposits.

ID: C27	NAME: Crane Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 347	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-7 protects a representative middle aged hemlock - maple forest that is found on a low sandy till plain and rolling sandy till uplands. This area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting and fishing; there is a Crown land recreation camp. Crane Lake is managed for lake trout, and is also a popular canoe route.

ID: C29	NAME: Draper Township	AREA (HA): 69	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area in site district 5e-8 contains excellent representation of sugar maple and white pine forests growing on low rolling hills with drumlins and open wetlands as well as about a dozen other combinations of vegetation and landforms and an active heronry.

ID: C30	NAME: Severn River	AREA (HA): 10,176	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area in site district 5e-7 contains a number of important core natural areas that have been inventoried and protected by MNR since the early 1980's including the Neipage Lake Gneissic Rockland Forest & Wetlands, Big Chute - Severn River Gneissic Rocklands and the Lost Channel Gneissic Rocklands Forests. Portions of this area have been municipally designated as Muskoka Heritage Areas. The topography is dominated by moderately rolling gneissic (banded bedrock) ridges with valley slopes and basins containing sandy till deposits and wetland pockets. This landscape provides habitat for a wide range of rare plant and animal species. The interior portions of the site are fairly rugged and remote. The area is actively used by recreationalists, including hunters, anglers, snowmobilers and boaters along the Trent - Severn Waterway, while fur harvesting and an outpost commercial tourist camp are traditional land uses. The area contains a number of Crown land recreation camps.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest. Public consultation on this Strategy has identified the opportunity to extend the Torrance Barrens conservation reserve designation north to Hardy Lake Provincial Park, to encompass Crown lands, which are in part, identified in the park management plan, as a future potential addition to the park. This potential conservation reserve expansion will be subject to future local public consultation.

ID: C32	NAME: Moreau Bay	AREA (HA): 356	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site, situated in the Go Home Bay area of Georgian Bay, consists of one large island, plus bays, channels and the lakes behind the island. The landscape is dominated by uneven, impermeable bedrock knolls and ridges, some with shallow sandy till, alternating with low wetland areas. The site contains ideal habitat for Atlantic Coastal Plain flora, containing several rare plants and animals. The site contains excellent pike, muskellunge and bass spawning habitat. The area which is in site district 5e-7, has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C33	NAME: Gibson River	AREA (HA): 284	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve protects the stretch of the Gibson River between Gibson Lake and Georgian Bay. It is one of a few free flowing waterways in the area, and is popular for canoeing. It contains a rich assemblage of shoreline vegetation communities including Atlantic Coastal Plain flora, with several rare plant and animal species. This area is relatively remote and is a popular recreational area, including heavy use for canoeing and camping. The area which is in site district 5e-7, has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C35	NAME: Cognashene Lake	AREA (HA): 3,205	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The conservation reserve is situated on the upper end of Longuissa Bay on Georgian Bay. It is an extensive lowland and wetland complex, with important fish spawning and waterfowl staging habitat. The site contains Atlantic Coastal Plain flora as well as a large wild rice stand and rich variety of floating and submerged aquatic plants, with several rare plant and animal species. This area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting and fishing and contains a water power dam on Go Home River. The area which is in site district 5e-7 has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C36	NAME: McRae Lake	AREA (HA): 1,943	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve provides representation of the thinly till-covered rolling bedrock outcrop landscape of the area. The landscape is characterized by bedrock knolls with Red Oak, White Oak and White Pine, containing a number of species at the northern end of their range. The area is scattered with small wetlands and beaver ponds, with several rare plant and animal species. The area which is in site district 5e-7 has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C37	NAME: Jevins and Silver Lake	AREA (HA): 2,328	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The upland portions of this site provide representation of red oak and white pine forests growing on bare bedrock, as well as open wetlands, rock barrens and a dozen or so more combinations of vegetation and landforms. The barren open environment is good habitat for five-lined skinks and potential habitat for eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. The lands surrounding Jevins Lake are part of the provincially significant Jevins Lake Wetland, containing 267 vascular plants, including three nationally and provincially rare species. The wetland and upland areas surrounding Jevins Lake are municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area, for its life science values, representation values and locally significant earth science values. The area which is in site district 5e-8 is traditionally used for hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and fur harvesting.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C38	NAME: Kahshe Lake Barrens	AREA (HA): 3,237	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large expanse of fairly pristine and remote Crown land in site district 5e-8 is dominated by a weakly broken Pre-Cambrian bedrock plain, with very thin soil cover. Bedrock ridges contain open forests of white pine, red oak, and red oak-white oak mixtures. Between these bedrock ridges, narrow linear wetlands contain a number of habitats including sedge grass meadows, leatherleaf bogs, coniferous fens and open aquatic wetlands. The exceptional area has a very high vegetation diversity with 485 native plants recorded, including numerous provincially and nationally rare plant, bird and animal species. The large size and lack of habitat fragmentation are important habitat values of this area. The area has been traditionally used for hunting, snowmobiling, backcountry recreation and fur harvesting. The Kahshe Lake Barrens have been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C40	NAME: Cognashene Point	AREA (HA): 104	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve is located in Site District 5e-7. It is mainly a backshore site, with the shoreline used for cottaging. The site provides representation of several combinations of vegetation and landforms, including birch and poplar stands on rock barrens. There are also extensive wetland areas. The site provides habitat for prairie warbler, and likely also eastern massasauga rattlesnake and fox snake.

ID: C42	NAME: Hawkins Property	AREA (HA): 352	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Hawkins Property in site district 5e-12 is primarily a mature forest of poplar, soft maple, balsam fir, cedar and white birch. Swamps and ponds dot the property, filling up depressions in the glacial outwash and ground moraine landform. An active heronry can be found in the conservation reserve.
LAND USE INTENT: The red pine plantation on the eastern boundary of this site will not be included in the conservation reserve boundary.

ID: C43	NAME: Westmeath Bog	AREA (HA): 35	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Westmeath Bog, in site district 5e-12 is a large provincially significant wetland that has plants that are reminiscent of northern bogs. It is mainly lowland forest of cedar, black spruce and tamarack, with a carpet of shrubs, moss and lichens on the ground. This area was acquired by the Province in 1977 and is a small part of the much larger Westmeath Bog. The Westmeath Bog is mainly privately owned.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C44	NAME: Snake River Marsh	AREA (HA): 206	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Snake River, in site district 5e-12 meanders slowly through a large marsh and swamp system, enroute to the rivermouth at Muskrat Lake. The serpentine river winds through a large flooded swamp of silver and red maple, black ash and elm as well as open marsh areas. This wild forest overtop of organic soil is an island of green habitat in an agricultural landscape. The Snake River marsh likely provides a filtering function for the watershed, catching and holding onto nutrients and chemicals in the runoff from agricultural lands upriver. This property was acquired by the Province in 1975, and is about 20% of a much larger (880 ha) provincially significant wetland system.
LAND USE INTENT: Provided that it is consistent with the protection of natural heritage values, as determined through the preparation of a statement of conservation interest, this site may be suitable for habitat improvement by such partners as Ducks Unlimited. MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C46	NAME: White Lake Wetlands	AREA (HA): 605	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains the best example of a marble-based fen in the Ottawa Valley and has a number of interesting plant and animal species. The wetland supports rare plants and an extraordinarily rare variety of a buckmoth. The buckmoth is known from only one other place in Canada, and few other places in the world. Its survival is directly linked to a plant, called bogbean, that lives in the wetland and on which the moth larvae feed. The wetland, lies over ground moraine, but also includes some areas of marine deposits. Marine deposits are not found in other protected natural heritage areas in Site District 5E-11. Included in the site are other wetlands, including cedar swamps as well as adjacent upland forested areas representing both pine and tolerant hardwoods on marble.
LAND USE INTENT: Portion of conservation reserve boundary along Lowney Lake Road is under review. MNR will cooperatively work with private landowners and municipalities regarding the protection of the private land portion of this site.

ID: C48	NAME: Constant Creek Swamp and Fen	AREA (HA): 540	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The undisturbed flooded swamps of this area contain silver maple, green ash, black ash and cedar. The flatland is a product of a post-glacial spillway that runs from the Lake Clear area to Calabogie Lake, about 7 km west of Calabogie. Constant Creek itself lies overtop of a sand outwash plain. Marble and granite bedrock runs in ridges through the site and create a series of linear wetlands that have grown into fens. There are extensive wild rice stands and an adjoining provincially significant wetland at Ferguson Lake. The swamp-over-marble combination is a distinct feature. The mixture of deciduous and coniferous swamps, interrupted by large and open grassy fens, is the best collection of these habitats in the area. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-11.
LAND USE INTENT: Statement of conservation interest to address opportunities for enhancing fisheries management, while protecting the site's natural heritage values, as well as the protection of the Ferguson Lake wetland. MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C50	NAME: Oxbow Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 152	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-7 protects a rich white birch forest on a low sandy till plain and bare bedrock plain. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a recreation camp in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply.

ID: C54	NAME: Conroys Marsh	AREA (HA): 2,072	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Located at the confluence of the York and Madawaska Rivers near the Combermere-Palmer Rapids area, this large provincially significant wetland is the largest marsh complex in site district 5e-11. The wetland lies within a wide valley that is the product of gloaciolacustrine deposits. The diversity of habitats includes swamp thickets, flooded swamps, black-spruce and cedar bog forests. The aquatic habitats, known for their duck production, include wild rice stands, cat-tail marsh, grassy meadow marshes. Water levels have been artificially raised by the damming of the Madawaska River at Palmer Rapids in 1956. Subsequent dam upgrades have reduced water level fluctuations in the marsh.
LAND USE INTENT: Provided that it is consistent with the protection of natural heritage values, as determined through the preparation of a statement of conservation interest, this site may be suitable for habitat improvement by such partners as Ducks Unlimited. MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C55	NAME: Little Mississippi River	AREA (HA): 544	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The river, in site district 5e-11 meanders first through a silver and red maple swamp and then through cedar and white pine forests as it connects to the provincially significant wetland Conroys Marsh. Sections of the Little Mississippi River shoreline contain significant wetland areas and unique marsh habitat. The shoreline is largely undeveloped and very scenic. Fishing, hunting, ecotourism, canoeing, snowmobiling and wildlife viewing are all popular activities, while winter deer yards are found along the river.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary generally consists of a 120 metre wide setback on Crown lands on either side of this waterway from Conroys Marsh to Weslemkoon Lake.

ID: C59	NAME: Mud Lake/Creek	AREA (HA): 110	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Extensive wetlands have developed along the slow-moving waters and flat shorelands of the Muskrat River and Mud Creek systems. Flooded swamplands grow black ash, red maple and elm, while ringing the shores there are wetland-loving shrubs, ferns and sedges. Marsh areas are habitats for bullfrogs and rare black terns. People paddle or boat into this relatively intact natural wetland system. This area would protect three geographically separated parcels of wetland of a much larger provincially significant wetland system in site district 5e-12.
LAND USE INTENT: Provided that it is consistent with the protection of natural heritage values, as determined through the preparation of a statement of conservation interest, this site may be suitable for habitat improvement by such partners as Ducks Unlimited. MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C61	NAME: Silver Creek Peatland	AREA (HA): 348	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve protects the Crown land portion of a provincially significant wetland in site district 5e-11. It is the largest organic deposit in the site district and supports extensive peatland dominated by black spruce, white cedar and tamarack forest. The wetland features that continue along the creek - such as a diversity of habitats, size relative to the watershed and interesting species -- rank as provincially significant as well. The meandering Silver Creek winds its way through this peatland on its way to Golden Lake.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR to work with municipality and private landowners on protection of private land portion of wetland.

ID: C62	NAME: Deacon Escarpment	AREA (HA): 2,176	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Rising over 100 metres above the east side of the Bonnechere River in site district 5e-11, the Deacon Escarpment is a dramatic ridge that runs along the edge of a faultline. The exposed bedrock and loose rock slopes are covered by white and red pine, poplar, cedar and red oak. The ridgetops are covered in dry oak barrens. The southern exposure supports a significant population of red juniper - a shrub species that is better known around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and is at the northern edge of its range here. Plants at the edge of their range usually grow in small isolated patches. But here the red juniper thrives and forms the dominant cover along parts of the cliff face, a feature that is unique in the site district.
LAND USE INTENT: MNR will work with the Bonn-Trae Snowmobile Club in the planning and development of the area.

ID: C69	NAME: Dawson Ponds and Plastic Lake	AREA (HA): 286	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site protects the Plastic Lake/Dawson Ponds watershed in site district 5e-9. Plastic Lake has been the subject of several important, long term research studies carried out by the Ministry of the Environment. An important component of this watershed, the Dawson Ponds, are shallow, bog-rimmed ponds set in the middle of granite hills This is one of the top ten sites for rare Atlantic Coastal plant species in Ontario, and is one of only a few significant locations for these species in this area. This site is found within the Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre Management Area.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary under review. Statement of conservation interest to encourage ongoing water quality research and provide for continued use of existing forest access road. Forest management is not permitted.

ID: C70	NAME: Sausage Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 577	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Located in the southern portion of site district 5e-5 this area is made up of highlands and steep slopes covered with sugar maple, red maple, yellow birch, fir and spruce stands. There are also low lying moraine landforms and an esker landform supporting balsam fir. The area contains at least 15 different vegetation types and contains a number of sheltered creek valleys that provide conifer cover for a moose wintering area. The gravel deposits have numerous springs and seeps that form the headwater source of the several coldwater streams that maintain trout habitat. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting and snowmobiling.

ID: C71	NAME: South River Forest	AREA (HA): 121	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-5 contains at least 12 different vegetation types including poplar, yellow birch, cedar and balsam fir stands growing over glacial moraine deposits and an outwash area. The area is part of the South River watershed; the South River forms the southeast boundary of the conservation reserve. The area contains numerous springs and seeps that form the headwaters of several coldwater streams, which in turn provide brook trout habitat.

ID: C72	NAME: Bray Lake	AREA (HA): 290	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The forests around Bray Lake grow on hilly uplands with sandy deposits left by glaciers. This glacial history has created thirteen distinct habitats (combinations of vegetation and landforms), including open wetlands, and forests of balsam fir and old sugar maple. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-8.

ID: C73	NAME: Louck Lake Wetland	AREA (HA): 224	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This provincially significant wetland in site district 5e-8 is an excellent example of the flat glacial deposits that snake north to south across the area west of Algonquin Park. The flat lands and organic deposits are on an ancient sand plain associated with glacial Lake Algonquin. This landform type is very limited in the site district. Louck Lake is a shallow waterbody with extensive open water, floating and submergent aquatic vegetation. The shorelines are dominated by low shrub marshes and shrub fens, ringed by lowland conifer swamps on peat.

ID: C75	NAME: Commanda Creek	AREA (HA): 1,752	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-8 contains rolling hills with shallow sandy soils are mixed with sand and gravel deposits that were in contact with glaciers. There are bare bedrock patches, and flat sandy deposits that support forests and wetlands. Among the 49 combinations of vegetation and landform types are hemlock forests, older sugar maple, spruce and balsam fir forests, open and treed wetlands in the flat patches. The conifer stands support two small deer yards. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a recreation camp in the site.

ID: C76	NAME: Joly Township Hardwoods	AREA (HA): 419	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains old sugar maple forests on a glacial spillway, as well as eight other combinations of vegetation and landforms. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-8
LAND USE INTENT: The northern boundary of this site may be refined, based on a more detailed review.

ID: C77	NAME: Raganooter Lake	AREA (HA): 191	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 contains old hemlock on hilly terrain with sandy soils, with some flatter sandy deposits as well. There are three combinations of vegetation and landforms within the entire area. The site is within the Loring deer yard, with the old hemlock providing winter protection for the deer. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply. Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be provided for and addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C78	NAME: Big Deer Lake	AREA (HA): 329	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The upland mixed forest in this area provides representation of eleven combinations of vegetation and landforms, including spruce forests growing on rolling sandy hills and bare bedrock, as well as balsam fir, hemlock and white birch forests on low bedrock hills. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-8. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply.

ID: C80	NAME: Little Spring Lake	AREA (HA): 82	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is dominated by gently rolling landscape with tamarack forests and wetlands on bedrock with organic pockets and habitats representative of site district 5e-8 .

ID: C81	NAME: Ferrie Township Forest	AREA (HA): 304	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 protects a forest of white pine, tamarack and treed muskeg on a landscape of dunes and beach deposits. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a Crown land recreation camp in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply.

ID: C82	NAME: Bridge Lake - Ridge Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 111	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area provides representation of forest types in site district 5e-8 . This site has four forest habitat types, including spruce forests in a pocket of flat delta-like deposits left by glacial meltwater. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a Crown land recreation camp in the area.

ID: C84	NAME: Bear Creek	AREA (HA): 168	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 protects yellow birch forests growing on glacier deposited sands and gravels around Bear Creek. Part of the area lies within a winter deer yard.

ID: C85	NAME: Bear Lake Peatland	AREA (HA): 3,233	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Bear Lake Peatland is the most extensive peatland and bog habitat in site district 5e-8. Parts of this provincially significant wetland resemble the patterned treeless bogs of Ontario's far north. There are a variety of significant plants (e.g. Cary's Knotweed) and birds (Sandhill Crane) within the wetland, as well as excellent moose habitat. The peatland is relatively pristine, except for a few trails and cabins. The wetland community is surrounded by representative upland forest types, generally situated on bare bedrock with shallow soils. The area is actively used by hunters, snowmobilers and fur harvesters. There are a number of Crown land recreation camps.

ID: C87	NAME: Dutcher Lake	AREA (HA): 1,865	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This forested and wetland area contains one of the four upper watershed areas of the Seguin River system, which drains west to Georgian Bay. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-8. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there are several recreation camps in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: Statement of conservation interest to address protection of headwater values.

ID: C88	NAME: Cashen Lake	AREA (HA): 165	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 is known for its hemlock stands. In many locations hemlock grows in dense stands on ridges and north slopes. Here it dominates sections of mildly rolling hills with shallow soils and flat sandy patches. Besides the hemlock forests, there are five other representative habitat types (combinations of vegetation and landforms) as well. The northwest section includes part of the Bear Lake deer yard. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C89	NAME: Cardwell Township Old Growth	AREA (HA): 996	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-8 protects a large forested area with older age (between 90 and 110 years) white pine, situated north and east of the village of Rosseau. The site has not been logged in many years and is in excellent condition. Surrounding these significant stands are stands of barren and scattered pine on bedrock ridges and shallow soils. The area is actively used by hunters and fur harvesters.

ID: C90	NAME: Lower Moon River	AREA (HA): 3,043	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7 contains a scenic portion of the Moon River between Curtain Chute and Moon Falls and a large area of upland forests. The site contains a variety of low cliff, bedrock slope and talus slope habitats and diverse shoreline flora, typical of the Georgian Bay landscape. The shoreline areas contain spawning habitat for muskellunge and pickerel. This site protects habitat for numerous nationally and provincially rare wildlife and plants. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including canoeing and hunting; there is a Crown land recreation camp in the area. The Lower Moon River has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.

ID: C91	NAME: Freeman Township Sugar Maple Forest	AREA (HA): 120	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7 protects older age maple stands on low hills with sandy soils and bare bedrock patches. Three combinations of vegetation and landforms occur.

ID: C92	NAME: Axe Lake Wetland	AREA (HA): 591	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Axe Lake is the best example of forested swamp and organic soil deposits in site district 5e-8 and harbours several rare species. Parts of the lake itself are shallow and sand-bottomed, while the rest is situated over a large organic deposit. Axe Lake is a provincially significant wetland, and is considered the second most significant site in Ontario for Atlantic Coastal Plain plants. The site has extensive beds of emergent and shallow water aquatic plants as well as conifer bogs with tamarack, black spruce and white cedar. Axe Lake is an excellent warmwater fishery and the upland portions of the site surrounding the wetland are actively used by hunters and snowmobilers. The Axe Lake Wetland is municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary includes the Crown land portions of this provincially significant wetland and natural heritage area, including the bed of Axe Lake.

ID: C93	NAME: Haines Creek Uplands	AREA (HA): 115	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This diverse natural area in site district 5e-7 has at least 22 combinations of vegetation and landforms, including poplar- sugar maple and older red oak and white pine stands on hilly, sandy uplands and old sugar maple stands on hilly bare bedrock. The area includes part of the Back Lake and Flaxman Lake winter deer yards.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C94	NAME: Moon River	AREA (HA): 411	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7, includes steep rocky slopes and low cliffs on the Moon River. On the surrounding uplands are sugar maple and old hemlock forests growing on gently sloping hills with shallow sandy soils or bare bedrock. It is habitat for the nationally threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake and the nationally vulnerable eastern hognose snake. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting, fur harvesting and snowmobiling; there are recreation camps and a trapper's cabin in the area. A transmission line crosses the site.

ID: C96	NAME: Shack Creek Wetland	AREA (HA): 338	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Before Shack Creek enters Kawpakwakog Creek, it flows through a broad, shallow depression in the hills. There it expands to form a large wetland covered in trees, shrub thickets and open bog habitats. The peat plains narrow at the creek outlet, which is surrounded by hills covered in white pine forests. There are nine habitat types (combinations of vegetation and landforms) in this landscape. The Shack Creek Wetland which is in site district 5e-8 has been municipally designated as a Muskoka Heritage Area.
LAND USE INTENT: Statement of conservation interest to ensure protection of wetland values.

ID: C97	NAME: Seguin Chutes	AREA (HA): 324	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7 protects upland forests of poplar/aspen, red oak, white pine and sugar maple in a rugged landscape along the Seguin River. Steep cliff habitat along the river is one of only a few such cliff environments in the area. It also is the only spot where the outcroppings are "metavolcanic" and not solely granite. The cliffs have open rocky barrens and wooded slopes with the surrounding woods containing seven combinations of vegetation and landforms. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including snowmobiling and hunting; the Seguin River is a popular springtime whitewater canoe route.

ID: C98	NAME: Harrison Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 276	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 includes 14 combinations of vegetation and landforms and is immediately north of the provincially significant Bear Lake Peatland. It also includes part of the Oranmore deer yard. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C99	NAME: Ahmic Forest and Rock Barrens	AREA (HA): 5,951	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large area contains at least 55 different habitats that are representative of site district 5e-8. This provides the opportunity for protection of many landscape features in a single area. The site includes parts of McKellar, Spence, Hagerman and Croft Townships. This rugged landscape features include sugar maple forests growing on hills of fine glacial deposits called tills, rock barrens with balsam fir and white cedar forests, and white pine, ash, red oak and maple forests growing on bare bedrock uplands. Wetlands also occur on a variety of landforms. It is this diversity of natural features that gives the Ahmic site its significance. Portions of this natural heritage area also include parts of the Oranmore and Mary Jane deer yards. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including snowmobiling and hunting; there are a number of recreation camps in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C100	NAME: Chain Lakes	AREA (HA): 847	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 has a mixture of forests and other habitats including open muskeg on sandy till soils representative of the area. The rolling hills and rugged terrain are mixed with flat sandy deposits from ancient waterbodies, which creates flatter sections. Balsam fir, spruce and sugar maple forests are the most common habitats, although there are 19 habitat types (combinations of vegetation and landforms) in this conservation reserve. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a recreation camp in the area.

ID: C101	NAME: Shawanaga Lake	AREA (HA): 5,323	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7 includes 15 combinations of vegetation and landforms, white cedar, hemlock, sugar maple and white birch forests, as well as open and treed wetlands, and rock barrens, on low hills with sandy soils, and similar forests on hilly bare bedrock and flat sand deposits. This site provides inland habitat for the nationally threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting, fishing, fur harvesting and snowmobiling; there are several recreation camps and a trapper's cabin . The "Pike's Peak" portion of the site is considered very scenic.
LAND USE INTENT: Possible co-management opportunity with local First Nation.

ID: C102	NAME: Long Lake - Lancelot Creek	AREA (HA): 648	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area straddles the height of land between the Long Lake and Lancelot Creek drainage areas in site district 5e-8. This exceptionally diverse and outstanding forested area includes at least 41 combinations of vegetation and landforms, including balsam fir and sugar maple forests on fairly flat sandy deposits, as well as thickets, open wetlands, and forests on low hills with sandy soils. The area is actively used for recreation including hunting and snowmobiling; there are several recreation camps.

ID: C103	NAME: Surprise Lake	AREA (HA): 353	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site includes 11 vegetation and landform combinations, including balsam fir, hemlock, spruce and yellow birch forests on hilly terrain with sandy till deposits in site district 5e8. The area is actively used for a variety of recreational activities.

ID: C106	NAME: Island Lake Forest and Barrens	AREA (HA): 14,783	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is one of the most diverse natural areas in site district 5e-7. The area contains roughly 36 different combinations of vegetation and landforms and has been studied by MNR and the academic community for its natural heritage values since the 1970's. White pine forests over thin soils on bedrock plains dominate the west side of Island Lake, especially along lakeshores, while open bedrock barrens are most common east of the lake. Much of the site shows the effects of scouring and erosion from glaciers and the waterbodies that followed them. Some of the other forest habitats include hemlock, poplar, red and silver maple, sugar maple, white pine and older jack pine forests growing on the shallow sand. There are also open stands of pine, white birch, red maple and oak with shrubs and lichens as undergrowth in the burned-over areas on the east side of Island Lake. Filling the flat areas between the bedrock uplands and outcroppings are organic soils and sandy deposits with a network of bogs, wetlands, peatlands and ponds. Many locations around Wahwashkesh, Wolf and Island lakes are provincially renowned for the presence of Atlantic Coastal Plain plant species, including several rare plant species, particularly on Island Lake. This large area contains habitat for eastern massasauga rattlesnakes, eastern hognose snakes and is one of the northernmost locations of five-lined skink. The area is very popular for a number of recreational activities (hunting, hunt camps, fishing, snowmobiling and canoeing) and is traditionally used by fur harvesters and a commercial tourist camp on Island Lake. This reserve is linked with P316 Magnetawan River and P 317 Noganosh Lake provincial parks.
LAND USE INTENT: The existing water control dam will be maintained. Any change or reconstruction of the dam will be done in accordance with applicable environmental assessment requirements, in consultation with local users and will be consistent with protecting the natural heritage values of the conservation reserve. The linear canoe route extension of this conservation reserve west through Wolf Lake to the new Magnetawan River Provincial Park, shall on average be 120 metres wide on either side of the main waterway and subject to the same co-design principles, width flexibility and consultation as the waterway park. Part of this site is situated within the existing Parry Sound Wildlands designation of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the DLUG policies, including restricted access provisions, will continue to apply.

ID: C107	NAME: Ferguson Township White Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 415	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-8 protects a white pine forest on low sandy hills with bare bedrock patches and flat sandy deposits. This site also provides inland habitat for the nationally threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake.

ID: C109	NAME: Mowat Township Hemlock Forest	AREA (HA): 155	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is located south of the French River, just east of Grundy Lake Provincial Park. It has five combinations of vegetation and landforms representative of site district 5e-7, but is especially significant for its older hemlock forests on low hills with sandy soils. Forest habitats also occur on patches of bare bedrock and silt and clay deposits. The site includes part of the Loring deer yard. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting, fur harvesting and snowmobiling.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C114	NAME: Swan Lake	AREA (HA): 212	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-5 is dominated by upland deciduous forests on shallow soils, which have been created by hilly deposits of ground moraines. There are also bedrock landforms supporting meadows, alder swales, treed wetlands and stands of hemlock, red maple and white cedar. The area includes part of the Portage Lake winter deer yard. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting. The area has been traditionally managed by MNR to protect its remote access and recreational values.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest. This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply.

ID: C115	NAME: Shawanaga-Shebeshekong	AREA (HA): 5,411	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area protects 14 combinations of vegetation and landforms representative of site district 5e-7, including soft maple forests, older poplar and white pine forests on sand deposits from ancient river deltas and on low hills with sandy soils. This site is habitat for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. The site incorporates portions of the Georgian Bay shore. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there is a recreation camp in the area. The area is also used for a variety of purposes by local First Nations.
LAND USE INTENT: Possible co-management opportunity with local First Nation. The recently constructed road to the community of Skerryvore is not affected by this new conservation reserve designation. It is recognized that the southerly boundary of this conservation reserve abuts a number of small patented land parcels along Georgian Bay. Further boundary refinement will occur in this area to reconcile the most appropriate boundary. Conservation reserve regulation of these lands will not prohibit future realignment of the existing municipal road, as the primary natural heritage values are situated well north of the road.

ID: C116	NAME: Naiscoot River Forest	AREA (HA): 343	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site includes middle-aged hemlock, red pine and white pine forests, and older jack pine stands on low hills with sandy soils. It has habitat for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. The Magnetawan River canoe route crosses the site, via Six Mile Lake and Little Wilson Lake (both part of the Naiscoot River) and Evans Lake. This conservation reserve, is in site district 5e-7. This reserve is linked with C326 Wahwashkesh - 6 Mile Lake conservation reserve and P316 Magnetawan River provincial park.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply. May be combined with C326 Wawashkesh - 6 Mile Lake and named Naiscoot River Conservation Reserve.

ID: C117	NAME: North Georgian Bay Shoreline and Islands	AREA (HA): 20,128	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is an undisturbed expanse of coastline and inland environments stretches from the Henvey Inlet Indian Reserve south to Point au Baril in site district 5e-7, a distance of approximately 30 kilometres. The jagged coastline contains numerous wetlands (including the provincially significant Naiscoot River wetlands) and provides habitat for a variety of wildlife species (e.g., eastern massasauga rattlesnakes, Caspian terns). The area has been recognized for many years as having outstanding recreational opportunities, especially for water-based recreation. In addition, a variety of traditional uses, including hunting, fishing and snowmobiling occur here. The area is also used for a variety of purposes by local First Nations. A commercial fishing camp and a recreation camp are located within the area.
LAND USE INTENT: Possible co-management opportunity with local First Nations.

ID: C118	NAME: Pakeshkag River Forest	AREA (HA): 1,054	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7, protects white birch, white cedar, hemlock, soft maple and sugar maple growing on low hills with sandy soils and similar forests growing on bare bedrock and areas of flat fine sand deposits. The area includes portions of Squaw Lake winter deer yard. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting; there are a number of recreation camps in the area. The site is crossed by a major transmission line. The area is also used for a variety of purposes by local First Nations.
LAND USE INTENT: Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C120	NAME: Franklin Island White Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 885	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large Georgian Bay island in site district 5e-7 contains excellent forest stands of older aged (90 to 100 years old) white pine on low hills and plains of bare bedrock. Older age white pine forests such as Franklin Island, are very limited in this area, due to a long history of forest harvesting. The island also has a thriving population of eastern massasauga rattlesnakes and the uncommon fox snake. The site includes three combinations of vegetation and landforms. The area is heavily used for a variety of recreational uses, including anchorage for boaters, camping, picnicking as well as hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: Given heavy recreational use of the island, future public consultation will discuss whether this proposed conservation reserve would be better managed as a natural environment class provincial park.

ID: C121	NAME: Northern McConkey	AREA (HA): 1,217	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The area contains at least 28 different combinations of vegetation and landforms representative of site district 5e-5. These vegetation landform communities include hilly bedrock uplands with treed wetlands and stands of poplar, white birch, sugar maple and white pine. There are also less hilly stretches of bedrock with meadows, alder swales, treed wetlands and stands of white birch, red maple and white cedar. The natural heritage area includes portions of Portage Lake and Etta Lake winter deer yards as well as a heron rookery. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including fur harvesting and hunting; there are several recreation camps in the area. The area is also used for a variety of purposes by local First Nations.
LAND USE INTENT: This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply. Vegetation management (deer habitat) to be addressed in Statement of Conservation Interest.

ID: C124	NAME: Boom Creek	AREA (HA): 599	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Old growth forests are rare natural features in the Ottawa Valley. The Boom Creek site is a significant natural old growth stand of red and white pine in site district 5e-10. More than half of the site is made up of pine stands in the 150 to 160 year old range, while the remainder is 120 to 130 years of age. This old pine grows over areas of rock outcrop, a situation that sets these old growth red and white pine stands apart from other similar sites in the area.

ID: C127	NAME: Shawanaga Island White Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 916	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large Georgian Bay island in site district 5e-7 contains excellent forest stands of older aged (90 to 100 years old) white pine on low hills and plains of bare bedrock. Older age white pine forests such as Shawanaga Island are very limited in the area, due to a long history of forest harvesting. This bedrock dominated landform provides habitat for eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. The area is heavily used for a variety of recreational uses, including anchorage for boaters, camping, picnicking and hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: Possible co-management opportunity with local First Nation.

ID: C130	NAME: Greenbough Esker	AREA (HA): 567	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Greenbough Esker is a large and intact earth and life science feature in site district 5e-10. The central and southern portion of this site contain an excellent example of a mature, undisturbed upland pine forest; consisting of primarily white pine, red pine and jack pine in various combinations growing on an esker landform. Peatlands have developed in places where piles of glacial deposits break up the landscape into humps and hollows and restrict the drainage. These peatlands support unique vegetation types and many uncommon to rare plant species, including the provincially rare White Fringed Orchid.
LAND USE INTENT: Management plan has been completed for this site.

ID: C134	NAME: God's Lake Old Growth White Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 243	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This natural heritage area in site district 5e-6 contains a magnificent stand of representative old growth white pine. It represents the north end of a hummocky esker-kame complex consisting of kame hills and small esker ridges with numerous troughs and kettle holes. The area supports six different landform vegetation communities with several regionally rare or uncommon plants.

ID: C136	NAME: Spring/Cut Lake Esker	AREA (HA): 542	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This natural heritage area in site district 5e-6 represents hummocky end moraines and esker ridges on an ice contact deposit. Spring and Cut lakes are two long deep lakes occupying kettle troughs, separated by a distinct esker ridge. There are five different landform vegetation communities.

ID: C137	NAME: Gooderham Old Growth White Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 68	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area contains old growth white pine growing on gently rolling bedrock topography with shallow soils in site district 5e-6. The site connects with the Nipissing Crown Game Preserve.

ID: C138	NAME: Blue Lake End Moraine	AREA (HA): 1,326	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This natural heritage area in site district 5E-6 consists of a moderately broken end moraine with several large shallow lakes and several kettle depressions and lakes. The dry coarse sand and gravel deposits support white birch, poplar and pockets of pine and balsam fir, with 12 different vegetation communities.

ID: C142	NAME: Holdridge Creek/Red Cedar/Lake Marsh	AREA (HA): 1,181	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve is covered by a large and extensive network of wetland habitats, including marshes and swamps, bordered by rock outcroppings. The creek has a well developed meandering pattern. This site has at least 13 different plant communities, which includes a red oak and white pine forest growing on rock outcrops that is unique in site district 5e-6. The wetlands support significant concentrations of waterfowl, furbearers, and moose.

ID: C145	NAME: Smoky River Headwaters	AREA (HA): 847	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area is just south of the Tomiko River about 20 km northeast of the Town of Sturgeon Falls. The terrain is dominated by flat wetland communities that are not common in site district 5e-6. In particular there is an open fen. Among the 19 vegetation communities is a diversity of marshes and a boreal type woodland of black spruce and lichen on an ancient beach ridge. The site is also a moose wintering area.

ID: C149	NAME: Callander Bay Wetland	AREA (HA): 142	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area which is a provincially significant wetland is located on the east side of Lake Nipissing near the village of Callander. It contains significant life science values, and important fisheries spawning and waterfowl habitat. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-5.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary to include all Crown land portions of the wetlands, including lakebed portion of Lake Nipissing. Some opportunity may exist to consolidate the wetland under Crown ownership through purchases or land exchanges. Conservation reserve management to recognize the importance of the site to fisheries health of Lake Nipissing, as well as permitting recreational trails and berry picking along the backshore. MNR to work with the municipality and private landowners to protect private land portions of the wetland.

ID: C150	NAME: Boulter-Depot Creek	AREA (HA): 2,170	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-5, has a number of core natural heritage areas identified to protect a significant combination of earth and life science features. The core areas include hilly end moraine landforms - deposits made when glacial movement halted - as well as ground moraine and esker landforms. Much of the variation on the landscape is caused by differing depths of sand and gravel deposits. The combinations of vegetation and landforms include wetlands and forests of maple, birch, fir ,aspen and pine. The wetlands in the area provide excellent waterfowl habitat. The gravelly deposits and the groundwater they discharge in the vicinity are important for brook trout habitat.

ID: C152	NAME: Fish Bay	AREA (HA): 121	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This provincially significant wetland is very important to the health of Lake Nipissing. In addition to containing important and representative life science values in site district 5e-5, this wetland is an important waterfowl staging area and provides excellent nursery habitat for northern pike.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary to include all Crown land portions of the wetlands, including lakebed portion of Lake Nipissing. Conservation reserve management to recognize the importance of the site to fisheries health of Lake Nipissing. MNR to work with the municipality and private landowners to protect private land portions of the wetland.

ID: C157	NAME: Eden Township Forest	AREA (HA): 109	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-4 protects a red pine and cedar forest on a landscape of low hills. This forest provides the best example of this landform/vegetation complex in the area.

ID: C159	NAME: McLaren Forest	AREA (HA): 369	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site of old growth white pine is the most accessible and oldest old growth forest in site district 4e-4. Some trees are at least 220 years old. Here the pine grows on rolling hills with bedrock and pockets of flat sedimentary deposits. It is located partly within the Nipissing Game Preserve, and is just southwest of Marten River Provincial Park.
LAND USE INTENT: Old growth forest has excellent interpretative value. Work with Marten River Provincial Park to provide interpretation of site.

ID: C160	NAME: Mudcat Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 214	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-5 protects forests of white birch, fir, spruce, maple and cedar on flat sedimentary deposits and fir, yellow birch and cedar on low rolling gravelly moraine deposits.

ID: C164	NAME: Cherriman Township	AREA (HA): 745	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains spruce and jack pine forests and treed wetlands of brush and silver maple growing on a gently rolling ground moraine in site district 5e-5.
LAND USE INTENT: Boundaries under review.

ID: C166	NAME: Attlee	AREA (HA): 212	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site, in site district 5e-4 is situated on a mildly rolling landscape of ground moraine on bedrock. The water table here is "perched" - it is naturally high in places - which influences the vegetation communities. White pine and tamarack are the main forest species.

ID: C167	NAME: Field Township	AREA (HA): 191	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area contains combinations of vegetation and landforms including brush and alder thickets, fir and cedar forests and treed wetlands on hummocky ground moraine, and birch, poplar, cedar forests, thickets and treed wetlands on much flatter outwash deposits. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-5.

ID: C171	NAME: Cache Bay Wetland	AREA (HA): 3,393	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This provincially significant wetland is very important to the health of Lake Nipissing. It is one of the largest wetlands on Lake Nipissing. In addition to containing important and representative life science values in site district 5e-5, this wetland is an important waterfowl staging area and breeding area and provides excellent spawning and nursery habitat for Lake Nipissing fish populations.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary to include all Crown land portions of the wetlands, including lakebed portion of Lake Nipissing. Conservation reserve management to recognize the importance of the site to fisheries health of Lake Nipissing and the opportunity to foster co-stewardship opportunities with the Sturgeon River Museum. MNR to work with local municipality and private landowners to protect private land portions of this wetland.

ID: C177	NAME: Garson Forest	AREA (HA): 148	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-4 supports young birch and poplar stands on top of a flat lacustrine deposit.

ID: C178	NAME: MacLennan Esker Forest	AREA (HA): 198	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: An esker dominates this conservation reserve in site district 5e-4. Poplar, jack pine, spruce, birch and red oak stands cover this linear earth science feature. Treed wetlands and rock openings are scattered throughout the area.

ID: C182	NAME: Dana Township Jack Pine Forest	AREA (HA): 214	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-4 supports representative old jack pine and white pine forest. The landscape of rolling hills is broken by cliffs in some places. The conifer stands are late winter concentration areas for moose.

ID: C188	NAME: Kitchener Township (Morton Lake)	AREA (HA): 564	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 4e-4 contains a mixed forest of mainly coniferous species in a landscape of low hills.

ID: C194	NAME: Venetian Creek Old Pine	AREA (HA): 284	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve protects the best known example in site district 4e-3 of old growth white pine (130 years) growing in association with other conifers and intolerant hardwoods on a hilly end moraine landform. The area also contains younger upland black spruce, jack pine and trembling aspen communities.

ID: C195	NAME: Kawawia Lake Old Growth	AREA (HA): 68	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The low hills of sand and gravel in this site support old white pine mixed with poplar and birch, a combination of vegetation and landforms unique in site district 4e-3. There are also some stands of white birch, jack pine and black spruce. The site is located about eight kilometres east of Onaping Lake.

ID: C201	NAME: Green Lake Old Pine	AREA (HA): 136	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This best known example of old growth white pine mixed with other conifers and hardwoods in site district 4e-3. The landscape is fairly level, with some low hills, having been deposited by glacial streams. Adjacent to the white pine stand are mostly black spruce and trembling aspen forests.

ID: C202	NAME: Cartier Moraine	AREA (HA): 34	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This small ridge within the townsite of Cartier in site district 4e-3 marks a stage of the melting back of the continental glacier. As it receded from this region, a section stalled in its retreat here, allowing the buildup of debris at its edge. This site is considered the "type locality" for a particular phase of this glacial retreat, called the Cartier moraine.

ID: C206	NAME: Centre Creek Old Growth White Pine	AREA (HA): 150	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site includes old white pine in association with other conifers, birch and poplar. This forest is the best example in site district 4e-3 of such stands growing over "valley train" deposits of glacial debris that, driven by meltwater, were spilled beyond the edge of the glacier. The coldwater Centre Creek is at the north end of the site.

ID: C210	NAME: Tilton Forest	AREA (HA): 472	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Hardwood forests cover most of the low hills and rolling country of this site. Red maple, red oak and scattered red pine are the major tree species present. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-4.

ID: C213	NAME: Attlee Central Forest	AREA (HA): 189	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-4 contains very old cedar forests growing on a gently rolling landscape of ground moraine.

ID: C215	NAME: Gough Outwash Forest	AREA (HA): 387	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is dominated by outwash deposits. Outwash consists of material from glacial rivers and streams that was deposited beyond the edge of the glacial ice. Old sugar maple, poplar, and spruce stands now grow on this hilly terrain. Younger stands of red pine and jack pine are on some of the gently rolling sections of the area. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-4.

ID: C218	NAME: La Cloche Ridge	AREA (HA): 3,999	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve in site district 5e-3 is dominated by a rugged ridge system, running east - west and facing south on the North Channel. The landform is a water washed quartzite bedrock with pockets of sandy glacial ground moraine. The ridge tops rise dramatically above the North Channel of Georgian Bay. Exposed areas are sparsely covered by open grown, wind swept, fire origin, White Pine with Red Pine, Jack Pine and Red Oak. Stands of Sugar Maple with American Beech occupy lower slopes where soils are deeper, close to the North Channel shoreline. A number of small acidified lakes occur within the ridge system. This roadless area contains a hiking trail linking La Cloche Provincial Park to the east to the Highway 6 corridor. The open forest with views of quartzite ridges and rugged relief make this a highly scenic area as viewed from the small craft cruising the North Channel. The area is popular for hunting, fishing, commercial tourism, motorized (ATV, snowmobile) and non-motorized trail (La Cloche Trail) use.

ID: C223	NAME: Flat Creek Old Pine	AREA (HA): 425	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A stand of white and red pine, estimated to be 150 years old, mixed with red maple and some white birch, grows on a large hilltop in this area. This is the best known example of an old-growth pine-red maple forest on the "valley train" landform in site district 4e-3. The site is flanked by Flat and Fleck Creeks and contains some medium-aged white birch and trembling aspen forests.

ID: C227	NAME: Whiskey-Quirke Lakes Forest and Outcrops	AREA (HA): 6,391	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Whiskey-Quirke Lakes area, contains a large variety of vegetation communities on rugged terrain with a thin veneer of ground moraine. The habitats span the range from granite rock outcrops, to scattered tree and shrub communities mixed with grasses, to various forest types and beaver-controlled wetlands and aquatic communities along lakeshores. Some of the white pine and eastern hemlock forests, especially adjacent to Whiskey Lake, are more than 160 years old. One hemlock stand is more than 250 years old. The hemlock in this area represents the largest concentration for this species in association with white pine and sugar maple at the northern continuous range limit in site district 4e-3. There are also stands of yellow birch, white pine and sugar maple. Lakes on this site support cold-water and warm-water ecosystems including headwater lakes and ponds. This is a concentration of 14 important cold-water trout lakes, 5 moose aquatic feeding areas and 2 late winter moose habitat areas.
LAND USE INTENT: The southerly boundary of this conservation reserve will be reviewed through further planning including public consultation, to potentially extend this conservation reserve south to the Serpent River.

ID: C229	NAME: Brennan Harbour	AREA (HA): 182	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-4 includes bedrock landforms supporting poplar, tamarack, white pine and balsam fir forests. There are also flat "lacustrine" deposits that now grow old poplar stands, grassy meadows, alder swales, wetlands and forests of white birch, tamarack and white pine.

ID: C230	NAME: Archambeau Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 1,182	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Archambeau Lake Forest, in site district 4e-3 is a landscape of medium-aged and older forests growing over an end moraine deposit. The forest includes white birch, white pine and sugar maple, and contains pockets of old-growth eastern hemlock and white spruce. Other forest types include balsam fir, trembling aspen, upland and lowland black spruce, white cedar, jack pine and red maple.

ID: C241	NAME: Spanish River Mouth/Alluvial Islands	AREA (HA): 61	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site just south of the Town of Spanish in site district 5e-3 encompasses modern earth science features where natural processes are currently shaping the landscape. The mouth of the Spanish River is an ever changing system of channels, erosion and deposition features and flat sandy alluvial islands. A significant marsh grows in the shallow waters on these flat deposits where the Spanish River flow slows to meet the open water of Lake Huron.

ID: C243	NAME: Wagong Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 2,401	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This natural heritage area contains forests dominated by jack pine, trembling aspen and black spruce, including some older stands of these forest types. The site also contains white birch stands plus a small old growth red pine stand on the east shore of Wagong Lake. This is the best known example of its vegetation on this landform of low sand and gravel hills (glacial outwash) in site district 4e-3. Wagong Lake is a coldwater ecosystem.

ID: C244	NAME: Rawhide Lake	AREA (HA): 3,477	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This deep bedrock valley is rich in glacial history, including the deposition of the Rawhide Moraine. Extensive deposits of sand and gravel take the shape of valley-side moraines, cross-valley moraines, perched deltas, outwash flats, channels and a small "bird's foot" delta in Mikel Lake. The very high, north facing bedrock cliffs have extensive talus slopes. This area includes an important cultural site (Thunder Mountain), which has spiritual significance for aboriginal peoples. Rawhide Lake conservation reserve is in site district 4e-3.
LAND USE INTENT: This area includes an important cultural site (Thunder Mountain), thereby representing a possible co-management opportunity with local First Nations.

ID: C245	NAME: Jollineau	AREA (HA): 780	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The hilly and rugged uplands of the Jollineau Forest include stands of white cedar, white spruce and yellow birch and some old growth white pine-and sugar maple dominated forests. The yellow birch stands are at least 120 years old and include patches that are more than 190 years old. The landform - steep hills of shallow soils, with pockets of bedrock and deep soils - supports scattered white spruce forest, an uncommon combination of vegetation and landforms in site district 4e-3.

ID: C246	NAME: Echo River Hardwoods	AREA (HA): 10,541	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The best example in site district 4e-3 of extensive sugar maple dominated forests, ranging from 40 to 140 years old, growing on a landscape of steep hills with shallow sands and bare bedrock. A small number of young red maple stands, white birch stands and open rock outcrop communities are also found here. The headwaters of several tributaries of the Echo River are in this site.

ID: C247	NAME: Byrnes Lake White Birch	AREA (HA): 1,753	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-1 has a mixture of low to mildly rolling landforms, including hills covered in shallow sandy till deposits, lake-deposited sands, silts and clays and bedrock barrens. The white birch, poplar and red maple forests are part of an ongoing research study on forest growth.
LAND USE INTENT: Statement of conservation interest to provide for ongoing research. Research must be consistent with the protection of natural heritage values.

ID: C248	NAME: La Verendrye/Ogidaki	AREA (HA): 791	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-2 includes an old deciduous forest growing on top of hilly moraine deposits. The main forest types are yellow birch, sugar and red maple and white and black spruce.

ID: C256	NAME: Basswood Lake Hemlock	AREA (HA): 123	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve provides representation of old growth hemlock and sugar maple dominated stands along the south shore of Basswood Lake in site district 5e-1.

ID: C257	NAME: Basswood Lake	AREA (HA): 118	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-1 provides representation of red oak in a system of deep gullies flanked by bedrock uplands. This site is of high diversity due to the varied landforms including valleys, bedrock uplands, lake shoreline and numerous vegetation types. The forests include red oak, white pine, trembling aspen, white birch and sugar maple.

ID: C258	NAME: Thessalon River Delta/Rock Lake Red Oak	AREA (HA): 240	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area includes a river delta covered in open bog and fen habitats, and also includes rare plants and combinations of vegetation and landforms unique in site district 5e-1. There are typical floodplain features such as oxbow lakes, backwater swamps and lagoons. Upland forests include sugar maple, red maple and eastern white cedar and are connected to red oak forests northwest of Rock Lake.
LAND USE INTENT: Statement of conservation interest to recognize existence of open mine shafts on site.

ID: C260	NAME: Rose Lake Dune Peatland Complex	AREA (HA): 202	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains dune habitats created with sands from the Kirkwood Delta. The dunes, like the delta, are elevated above current lake levels. The rolling site has created a slow drainage that now supports peatlands. These include stands of black spruce surrounded by lichens, blueberry heathlands, thickets, and classic bog habitats. This conservation reserve is in site district 5e-1.

ID: C262	NAME: Stuart Lake Wetland	AREA (HA): 635	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is the best example of sugar maple, balsam fir, white birch, yellow birch and cedar growing on steep hills of glacial till and bedrock in site district 5e-1. Rich wetlands fill the valleys between the hills.

ID: C263	NAME: Garden River Forest	AREA (HA): 291	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-3 contains yellow birch and balsam fir dominated forest types growing on low hills of glacial deposits. The site also contains an old growth white pine forest that stretches up the slope into more rugged country, and small areas of medium aged white spruce and sugar maple forest. There is a four km stretch of riparian (shoreline) vegetation along the river that is also significant.

ID: C266	NAME: Galbraith Peatland	AREA (HA): 64	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Prehistoric lake sediments form the base of this wetland of bog and swamp habitats in site district 5e-1. Cedar, spruce, sedges and shrubs such as leatherleaf and Labrador tea dominate the wetland, which is surrounded by bedrock knolls and ridges.
LAND USE INTENT: Review peat extraction proposal for area prior to regulation.

ID: C281	NAME: Tilley Creek West	AREA (HA): 598	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-2 contains old sugar maple forests growing on hilly ground moraine deposits of sand and gravel.

ID: C284	NAME: Wabos North	AREA (HA): 900	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This diverse landscape, in site district 4e-2 includes steep hills of moraine deposits mixed with flat pockets of sediments. Red maple and ash forests cover the valley bottoms, while uplands have stands of sugar maple, yellow birch, white spruce, black spruce, white birch and poplar.

ID: C286	NAME: Wabos South	AREA (HA): 559	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Red maple, sugar maple and yellow birch dominate the steep hills and pockets of flat lacustrine deposits of this landscape in site district 4e-2.

ID: C289	NAME: Searchmont South Forest	AREA (HA): 580	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-2 protects a rugged bedrock landscape dominated by poplar forests.

ID: C291	NAME: Goulais River Beach Ridges	AREA (HA): 1,008	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area, located at the south end of the Goulais River in site district 4e-2, is dominated by ancient beach ridges and a modern river environment of exceptional quality. The site is covered by more than a dozen vegetation communities. There are rich sedge meadows, cedar "savannah", bogs with black spruce, tamarack and moss, and "ridge-fringe" upland forests of black spruce, white birch, white pine and poplar.
LAND USE INTENT: Detailed life science inventory required for further protection of sensitive natural heritage values.

ID: C294	NAME: O'Connor	AREA (HA): 891	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-2 protects old white pine, sugar maple, yellow birch, as well as stands of black and white spruce on a landscape of steep hills interspersed with lacustrine deposits.

ID: C298	NAME: Harmony Forest	AREA (HA): 1,008	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-2 contains a lacustrine landform with hardwood forests that include old stands of sugar maple, yellow birch and red maple.

ID: C302	NAME: Point au Baril Forests and Wetlands	AREA (HA): 2,613	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e-7 provides representation of a wide variety of near shore vegetation types and life science features. It contains forests of jack pine, red oak, white pine, trembling aspen, white birch, red maple and white spruce. Numerous wetlands, including swamps, marshes and peatlands can be found in bedrock depressions and along the shoreline. This reserve also provides habitat for a number of rare plant and animal species. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including hunting.

ID: C307	NAME: Ile Parisienne	AREA (HA): 933	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Foreshore flats (shoals) consisting of Precambrian-aged Jacobsville Sandstone bedrock occur along the entire western side of Ile Parisienne. Small vegetated dunes are located along the backshore of the southeast tip of the island, and small unvegetated patches probably represent abandoned beach ridges. A sandy beach with dunes along its backshore occurs along the southwest side of the island, near the lighthouse. Abandoned (raised) postglacial Algoma stage beaches and swales also occur inland from the present shore. Large boulders are interspersed along the shallow waters off the western shore of Ile Parisienne, the result of winnowing of the original glacial sediments on the island over the last 3000 years by storm waves. Seasonal Lake Trout spawning occurs in the waters surrounding Ile Parisienne and the Parisienne Shoal, typically beginning in October. Waterfowl use the shore area along the northeast side for breeding, nesting, and feeding. Raptors and shorebirds use the interior and shores for breeding and feeding. There is a Department of Transport lighthouse and some associated buildings located at the south shore of the island. Ile Parisienne has been used as protection from Lake Superior storms by commercial traffic for over 100 years and by all lake travels for centuries. This conservation reserve is in site district 4e-2.

ID: C310	NAME: Muldrew Barrens	AREA (HA): 801	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A representative landscape of the Muskoka portion of the southern Canadian Shield area in site district 5e-7, characterized by rock barren ridges and intervening wetlands and forest communities.

ID: C322	NAME: Onaping Lake	AREA (HA): 17,353	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve is situated in site district 4e-3. Onaping Lake is a large waterbody that is the headwaters of the Onaping River. This lake is a popular recreation area for fishing and boating. Fish species include lake trout, pickerel and northern pike. Most of the lake is undeveloped with large sections of natural shoreline along bays and islands. Development is largely confined to the road accessible south end of the lake and includes several cottages and a few commercial tourism operations.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary consists of a 120 metre wide area surrounding Onaping Lake, as well as the interior islands and peninsulas.

ID: C323	NAME: Mozhabong Lake	AREA (HA): 4,315	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 4e-3 is nestled between the large Sinaminda Lake Enhanced Management Area on the east and the smaller Enhanced Management Area, Mozhabong Lake Access Area, to the west. Mozhabong Lake is a self-sustaining trout lake that is part of a tributary watershed within the Spanish River Basin. Fishing, boating and hunting are popular recreational activities. There is a well used access point on the south end of the lake and several recreation camps scattered on its shoreline; however, the area still remains relatively remote.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary consists of a 120 metre wide area around Mozhabong Lake, as well as the interior islands and peninsulas.

ID: C326	NAME: Wahwashkesh - 6 Mile Lake	AREA (HA): 1,315	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve, in site district 5e7 is part of the Magnetawan River canoe route. It provides representation of a southern shield landscape of predominantly pine and birch forests and gneiss and granite outcrops. This reserve is linked with C116 Naiscoot River Forests conservation reserve and P316 Magnetawan River provincial park. The area is used for a variety of traditional uses, including canoeing, camping and hunting.
LAND USE INTENT: This conservation reserve flows between Wahwashkesh Lake and the new Naiscoot River Conservation Reserve. May be combined with C116 and named Naiscoot River Conservation Reserve. The boundaries of this conservation reserve will be designed by the Ministry, with cooperative co-design input from the local forest industry and the environmental community. While the conservation reserve boundary will on average be set back 120 metres from the waterway, there is flexibility to modify this boundary to include additional adjacent areas of high recreational, scenic or natural heritage value and to exclude areas of high commercial forestry values (to a minimum of 60 metres in select areas). This site is situated within an existing Restricted Access Area of the Parry Sound District Land Use Guidelines. In addition to provincial conservation reserve policies, the restricted access DLUG policies will continue to apply.

ID: C327	NAME: Friday and Scotia Lakes	AREA (HA): 1,920	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This conservation reserve is located in site district 4e-3. Friday and Scotia lakes are important tourism lakes that contain fly-in outpost camps. Both lakes have good lake trout fisheries that are important to the tourism industry and local recreationalists. Scotia Lake also has archaeological significance.
LAND USE INTENT: Conservation reserve boundary consists of a 120 metre wide area surrounding Friday and Scotia Lakes. Manage this area to protect high quality recreational values and remote tourism opportunities. Consistent with land use direction for the Onaping, Friday and Scotia Lakes EMA 190a (Remote Access), further planning will provide detailed direction to protect the remote access qualities of Friday and Scotia Lakes. Further planning and dialogue with the local Aboriginal community should document Aboriginal values and establish provisions for their protection

ID: C1505	NAME: Isko Dewabo Lake Complex	AREA (HA): 2,763	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site consists of moderately broken ground moraine with mixed conifer, sparse forest, and cut and burn <20 years old. Weakly broken ground moraine with mixed deciduous forest and cut and burn is also present along with weakly broken bedrock with bog and moderately broken bedrock with bog.

ID: C1507	NAME: Slim Jim Lake Uplands	AREA (HA): 6,649	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is dominated by moderately broken bedrock of lacustrine deposit and sparse forest with dense conifer, and mixed forest (mainly deciduous stands). Wetlands occur within the Gramsby Creek area. The site contains a number of small lakes in the southeast section. The CN railway runs through the southern portion. An eagle nesting site exists here.

ID: C1508	NAME: Widgeon Lake Moraine	AREA (HA): 1,083	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains narrow, irregular moraine ridges which wind across bedrock uplands and low wetlands in rugged shield terrain. The ridges represent an ice halt position that has not been identified previously in this area and which may be associated with the Chapleau Moraine position. The dominant landform vegetation type is moderately broken ground moraine with dense coniferous and mixed coniferous forests. Also represented is moderately broken outwash deposit with dense coniferous forests.

ID: C1509	NAME: Kwinkwaga Ground Moraine Uplands	AREA (HA): 12,071	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large site located north to northwest of White River is dominated by moderately broken ground moraine of mixed forests, coniferous forests, and sparse forest. Weakly broken ground moraine is also well represented. Topographically, the area is rugged with many hills and numerous lakes and creeks. Kwinkwaga River winds through the northern section of the site.

ID: C1510	NAME: North Thornhen Lake Moraine	AREA (HA): 315	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This small site is located on top of a flat end moraine deposit. It contains mostly lacustrine deposits and mixed (mainly deciduous) forests. Some headwaters for feeder streams of the Oswen River are present.

ID: C1517	NAME: South Michipicoten River - Superior Shoreline	AREA (HA): 2,923	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The eastern portion of the site contains moderately broken ground moraine with moderately broken bedrock associated with the Superior shoreline. The entire site is underlined by volcanic and sedimentary rocks. An impressive lineament or linear feature is present running from Michipicoten Provincial Park eastward south of Michipicoten River. Mixed forests dominated by either conifer or deciduous trees and a number of lakes characterize this coastal site that links two existing provincial parks.
LAND USE INTENT: Portions of this site are subject to mining claims and leases and contains low to high mineral potential. Should mining claims be surrendered through the natural processes, such areas would be added to the conservation reserve.

ID: C1518	NAME: Kakakiwibik Esker	AREA (HA): 602	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A very distinct esker ridge of considerable length (over 6 km) extends NNE from Highway 17. It exhibits excellent form, being steep-sided with a distinct narrow crest. It is associated with tributary esker ridges, long narrow kettle troughs, now filled with blue-green lakes, and kame hills adjacent to the troughs. The lakes show excellent development of shoreline features such as spits, tombolos and bars. The esker was formed during the Timiskaming Interstadial, one of the environmental themes identified in the Earth Science Framework that represents a long period of general ice retreat across northern Ontario, and is associated with an ice-marginal position across the north shore of Lake Superior, dated at about 9,500 years ago.

ID: C1519	NAME: Lake Superior Highlands	AREA (HA): 46,734	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is very diverse. It is dominated by moderately broken bedrock with cut and burn < 20 yrs, mixed forests, and sparse forest. Also represented is moderately broken outwash with cut and burn <20 yrs. The boundary was extended to follow a waterway down to Lake Superior's shoreline. This was done as this creek was part of the natural drainage way, to facilitate gene flow to the shoreline, and to maintain the logical connection of the upland to Lake Superior. This area provides critical habitat for caribou.

ID: C1520	NAME: Magpie River Terraces	AREA (HA): 2,352	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: With a similar mode of formation as the University River terraces, the features at the Magpie River are remarkable for their size, diversity and exposure. As many as ten distinct and expansive terraces represent dropping lake levels in the Superior basin, from the earliest Minong level (9,500 years ago) through to more recent postglacial levels. The features are representative of events which occurred during the Timiskaming Interstadial, and the Late Holocene and Postglacial theme, a period of final ice retreat from the province. The Magpie River Terrace system represents the most dramatic and best developed such features along the Canadian shore of Lake Superior.
LAND USE INTENT: The existing hydro operations will be treated as a non-conforming use which will be permitted to continue.

ID: C1521	NAME: Strickland River Mixed Forest Wetland	AREA (HA): 1,631	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Within this site strongly broken ground moraine is dominant with mixed forest mainly coniferous, sparse forest, and wetland communities represented. A small amount of moderately broken ground moraine also exists with wetlands and dense deciduous stands present.

ID: C1526	NAME: North Montreal River Moraine	AREA (HA): 361	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site includes rolling hills of ground moraine deposits which support forests of poplar, yellow birch, and white pine. It is located on the north shore of the Montreal River about 30 km from the river mouth. Other representation features include moderately broken ground moraine with predominantly young mixed forest.

ID: C1527	NAME: Manitou Mountain	AREA (HA): 501	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Franz Interlobate Moraine was identified by Boissonneau (1966) as representing the location of heightened ice-contact deposition between two lobes of the melting continental ice cap, about 10,000 years ago. The Franz Interlobate Moraine was formed during the Timiskaming Interstadial. It consists of hummocky, irregular topography of kettles and kames, with few moraine ridges identifying ice contact slopes. Four other sites were investigated in the field to represent this feature, but were found to be lacking in feature diversity or were heavily impacted by harvesting. A tourism establishment exists in this site.

ID: C1531	NAME: Dube Creek Iceberg Keel Marks	AREA (HA): 1,793	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A complex of linear, furrow like marks appear to have been cut into glaciolacustrine sediments. These marks were formed by icebergs floating in glacial Lake Ojibway. This site is required to complete the Cochrane Events Environmental Theme. The dominant landform vegetation type found here is: weakly broken ground moraine with dense coniferous forest. Other vegetation types represented include: mixed deciduous forest, mixed coniferous forest, sparse forests, and wetlands.
LAND USE INTENT: Boundary to be refined to allow for an access corridor along Mattawishwia River.

ID: C1533	NAME: South Greenhill Lake Sand Delta	AREA (HA): 1,378	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Representation on this site includes weakly broken deep lacustrine deltaic sand plain containing medium to old growth white birch, jack pine, poplar/aspen and black and white spruce. The area is located north of the South Greenhill Lake and River complex, and contains some wetlands and some upland sites.

ID: C1534	NAME: Alm Lake Forest	AREA (HA): 291	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains eastern white cedar stands which are otherwise not represented on this landform unit. In total, seven different landform vegetation combinations are found within this site.

ID: C1535	NAME: Windemere Goldie Lake Complex	AREA (HA): 17,864	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area is identified in the Chapleau District Land Use Guidelines as a Remote Recreation Area. The area surrounds Shoals Provincial Park and includes Windermere, Kathleen, Goldie and Prairie Lakes. Windermere Goldie Lake has an older mixed forest with poplar and jack pine on exposed bedrock. Birch, and black spruce are also common. There are many lakes and cottages in the area as well as heron and osprey nesting sites.
LAND USE INTENT: The boundary of this site may change slightly as a result of discussions with the timber industry and other interested parties.

ID: C1538	NAME: Ste. Therese Ground Moraine	AREA (HA): 125	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site, located between Ste Therese and Pivabiska lakes, is a small area of moderately and weakly broken ground moraine dominated by poplar/aspen with some young spruce and an open wetland area. The topography is flat. The site is connected to Fushimi Lake Provincial Park through Hanlon Lake.
LAND USE INTENT: A cottage lease currently exists within this site; this activity will be allowed to continue within the conservation reserve.

ID: C1548	NAME: East Wenebegon Forest	AREA (HA): 3,523	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The primary value of this site is its white cedar dominated lowland forests. It contains the highest concentration of such forests on this landform unit in the site district. Considerable amounts of other lowland forest types dominated by black spruce and tamarack are also present in this site. Upland sites are dominated by white birch, balsam fir, and trembling aspen. Wetlands occur along the rivers on the flat terrain. The shores of the lakes including Wenebegon Lake support aquatic communities.

ID: C1553	NAME: Shanly Creek Drumlins	AREA (HA): 3,500	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Numerous linear ice flow features from drumlinoidal ridges to fluted forms are oriented in a southeast direction within this site. The ice flow features are overlain by a unit of glaciolacustrine silty clay, probably representative of Glacial Lake Ojibway. A number of well developed iceberg keel marks are present in the north half of the site.

ID: C1558	NAME: Ivanhoe River Clay Plain	AREA (HA): 7,025	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Weakly broken deep lacustrine clay plain is the predominant landform in this site and it is dominated by moderate aged poplar/aspen, black spruce, jack pine, and white birch. In addition, old growth stands of white cedar, white birch, poplar/aspen and black spruce are present. Weakly broken deep lacustrine fine sand and silt are also present on the site dominated by 31 to 70 year old poplar/aspen and jack pine. The site has relatively flat relief with some slow moving creeks, wetlands and isolated lakes. The Ivanhoe River flows through the southeastern portion of the site with the Canadian National Railway and Highway 101 forming the eastern boundary.

ID: C1562	NAME: Bennet Lake Esker Kame Complex	AREA (HA): 3,511	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is a provincially significant earth science site which represents an exceptionally well developed esker kame complex. The complex is oriented approximately north - south within the site and it grades into a linear area of thick drift, very likely an extensive subaquatic outwash fan and part of the Pinard Moraine. Relatively large kettle holes, many of which are occupied by small lakes, are associated with the esker system.

ID: C1564	NAME: Woman River Complex	AREA (HA): 9,463	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is dominated by weakly broken shallow sandy till plain with lacustrine clay and contains a wide variety of stands including; 31 to 100 year old black spruce, 31 to 70 year old jack pine and poplar/aspen stands and young to moderately aged white birch. Additional landform vegetation types represented include; moderately broken end moraine dominated by 31 to 100 year old black spruce and old growth jack pine and poplar/aspen, weakly broken deep lacustrine fine sand and silt plain dominated by moderate aged black spruce and the presence of 71+ year old poplar and 41 to 120 year old larch, weakly broken outwash plain with moderate age black spruce and old age poplar/aspen, and weakly broken aeolian organic sands containing moderate aged black spruce and old age jack pine. A good variety of forest types, wetlands, and landforms occur along with some spectacular scenery. Convergence of two canoe routes occurs within this site leading to two additional canoe routes (Groundhog and the Mattagami) that eventually join the Missinaibi River canoe route and provincial park ending in Moosonee.
LAND USE INTENT: Portions of this site are subject to mining claims.

ID: C1565	NAME: Vimy Lake Uplands	AREA (HA): 2,820	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains moderately broken shallow sandy till uplands lacustrine clay dominated by black spruce, poplar/aspen, balsam fir, white cedar, and white birch. In addition a weakly broken shallow sandy till plain is present dominated by old growth balsam fir, old growth white birch, and 41 to 110 year old white cedar. Topography of the site is relatively flat with a number of small but well defined lakes including Vimy, Big Boulder, Blackbill, Beaverflood and South Scorch lakes.

ID: C1566	NAME: Nova Township Clay Plain Peatlands	AREA (HA): 3,146	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Weakly broken deep lacustrine organic clay plain and weakly broken peat plains dominate the landforms within this candidate. Within the clay plain portion black spruce in all three age classes dominate the landscape with old growth jack pine, poplar/aspen and white cedar dominated stands complementing the spruce forests. Peat plains contain the same vegetative types, however, 31 to 100 year old black spruce contribute less than 10 ha on this landform. The site is very flat with peatlands present within the north center section of the site. The area is predominantly outwash deposit and lacustrine lowland, but some bedrock knolls exist. Jack pine is found on the outcrops in the northeast corner of the site and around the lake.

ID: C1570	NAME: Ballantyne Lake Drumlins	AREA (HA): 3,382	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site protects some exceptionally well developed examples of linear ice flow forms representing a late phase of the Cochrane Events environment during which glacial ice surged across the area in a fan shaped advance. Abundant ice-flow features ranging from drumlinoidal ridges to fluted forms are oriented southwest. The linear ice flow forms are composed of a carbonate rich, gravely silt till overlying an essentially massive, although fractured, silt unit. This site is associated with the lower Mattagami River Canoe Route.
LAND USE INTENT: The existing hydro operations will be treated as a non-conforming use which will be permitted to continue.

ID: C1578	NAME: North Muskego River Mixed Forest	AREA (HA): 2,865	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The dominant landform vegetation type present within this site is weakly broken ground moraine with middle age spruce, old growth spruce, and young spruce. Treed muskeg and poplar / white birch stands are also dominant within this landform type. The south end of the site contains stands of red and white pine. The site encompasses Laidlaw Lake, Crystal Lake, Return Lake, and portions of the North Muskego River. The area provides important wintering habitat for moose.

ID: C1579	NAME: Akonesi Chain of Lakes Complex	AREA (HA): 1,061	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The landform represented is a modified end moraine of weakly broken outwash plain. Topography is relatively flat with greater relief seen east of the site. Old growth jack pine and moderate to old growth white birch dominate the area. Significant vegetative stands on this landform include the previously mentioned jack pine and white birch as well as young jack pine and moderate age poplar/aspen stands. Located just north of Gogama, the site's western boundary is defined by the Canadian National Railway line. Akonesi Creek runs the full length of the site via a chain of lakes complex that flows south into Makami River.

ID: C1581	NAME: Geary Township Shoreline Bluff	AREA (HA): 571	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site protects a provincially significant earth science feature. A shoreline bluff which trends approximately SW-NE has been cut into a till covered upland area. It is thought that this erosional shoreline feature represents a water level of Glacial Lake Barlow - Ojibway or an earlier Glacial Lake Ojibway. The upland area is immediately underlain by a compact, fissile, gravelly, silt till. The Geary Township shoreline bluff is a good example of a raised erosional shoreline feature.

ID: C1582	NAME: Pinard Moraine	AREA (HA): 18,000	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This earth science feature is very prominent, rising up to 175 feet above it's surroundings. The Pinard Moraine represents a halt during glacial recession, when the ice margin was situated in juxtaposition with Glacial Lake Ojibway. This site represents one of the largest such features in northeastern Ontario. Dominant landform types include weakly broken end moraine and moderately broken ground moraine. Dominant vegetation types include dense and mixed conifer.
LAND USE INTENT: Currently a timber haul road bisects this site. Upon regulation, this road will continue to be used by the industry for access to areas north of the site as per agreements made between MNR and the forest industry.

ID: C1584	NAME: Tatachikapika River Plain	AREA (HA): 4,411	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains moderately broken shallow sandy till uplands made of lacustrine fine sand and weakly broken deep lacustrine organic clay plain. On the sandy till landform 31 to 100 year old black spruce and 31 to 70 year old white birch and jack pine with 41 to 110 year old white cedar dominate the vegetative stands. On clay deposits age class 2 black spruce, white birch and white cedar prevail. Also present are weakly broken aeolian organic sands and weakly broken outwash plain areas. Here age class 2 black spruce also predominate with other conifers and deciduous stands present in stand sizes between 100 and 1 ha. in size. Wetland areas occur south of Tatachikapika River.

ID: C1586	NAME: Mahaffy Township Ground Moraine	AREA (HA): 366	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is located within Mahaffy Twp and north of Sturgeon Falls on the Mattagami River. It is a small area of moderately broken ground moraine with old growth spruce, bush and alder, and treed muskeg. It also contains strongly broken ground moraine dominated by old growth spruce. Wetland areas are drained by Nesbitt Creek with the major relief associated with the southern portion of the site.

ID: C1587	NAME: Meteor Lake Outwash Fans	AREA (HA): 3,717	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This earth science site contains a spectacular, recessional sequence of outwash fans. This is an exceptional example of the progressive retreat of the ice marginal position (Chapleau Moraines) as shown by a series of linear to braided esker segments associated with a series of delta-shaped, kettled ice-contact fans which represent successive, local halts during ice retreat.

ID: C1594	NAME: Grassy River Halliday Lake Forests & Lowlands	AREA (HA): 2,776	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site falls within the historical Grassy River Waterway Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI). This site together with the Mond Lake Lowlands and Ferris Lake Uplands contain features unrepresented in other sites identified in the region. Representation features include: some balsam fir and red maple on lacustrine clay, white birch, cedar, black spruce and white spruce on moderately broken end moraine, white birch and cedar on weakly broken outwash plain, and white birch cedar, jack pine, poplar, black spruce and white spruce on weakly broken aeolian sands. Mixed forests, coniferous stands, wetlands and excellent shoreline fen areas are present. A large, transverse (ie. formed perpendicular to wind direction) dune complex has been identified along the site's southern boundary with other dunes located within the western portion of the site. White pine were scattered throughout the site.

ID: C1595	NAME: Wapus Creek	AREA (HA): 2,311	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site represents part of an outwash plain marking an ice marginal position during the deglaciation of northeastern Ontario. The ice marginal position is demarcated by a steep, well defined, ice-contact slope associated with a discontinuous, low-relief ridge. The area upglacier of the ice marginal position is underlain predominantly by deposits of ice -contact stratified drift with numerous hummock and kettle forms. In this area, at least four esker systems mark the position of subglacial conduits along which water and sediment was transported to the ice margin. The area downglacier of the ice marginal position is underlain by post-glacier outwash sand and gravel.

ID: C1596	NAME: Whitefish River Sandy Till	AREA (HA): 3,873	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Contained within this site is strongly broken deep and shallow sandy till with relief, and bare bedrock which is located along the site's western and southern boundaries. Towards the center of the site lacustrine deposits and wetlands and much flatter topography exist. This site is dominated by 31 to 100 year old black spruce, 31 to 70 year old jack pine and young (< 30 year old) white birch. Old growth black spruce, white cedar and poplar aspen are also prevalent on the site. Scattered white pine also occur. A waterfowl staging area is present in this site in McNeil Twp.

ID: C1597	NAME: Night Hawk Lake Shoreline Bluffs	AREA (HA): 1,392	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is representative of a weakly broken outwash area dominated by 31 - 70 year old balsam fir and white birch. Other values include a cold water fishery and a stocked cold water lake. Other representation features include some excellent small dunes located in the peatland area in the south central portion of the candidate. Shoreline bluffs of lacustrine clay occur along the shore of Night Hawk Lake.

ID: C1598	NAME: Nahma Bog and Poor Fens	AREA (HA): 3,547	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Nahma Bog ( northern site) is an historical ANSI which provides representation of a basin fen, center raised bog, string bog, and lagg swamps. This site is characteristic of a peat land site but has a number of special features normally found in lands much further north. The area has been classified as a provincially significant wetland. The biological inventory indicates the presence of one provincially rare animal, the bog lemming. The Poor Fens (southern site), was brought forward by the public during the Lands for Life process. Fens located here are open or sparsely minerotrophic wetlands with level or depressional surfaces, except for low hummocks or ridges, dominated by sedges, grasses, and/or shrubs.

ID: C1599	NAME: Brace Creek	AREA (HA): 4,812	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: As the ice mass melted back across the region, various short-lived, ice marginal lakes formed in lowland areas fronting the ice margin. Water and sediment was transported by subglacial conduits to the ice margin, where it was deposited in these short-lived, ice marginal lakes as subaquatic outwash fans. This earth science feature includes a north-south trending , bedrock -confined lowland area, of which large areas are immediately underlain by a planar expanse of subaquatic outwash sand. Occasional dune forms, particularly in the northwest part of the area are representative. A number of exposed bedrock areas surrounded by outwash sand and/or organic terrain occur, and in the areas immediately east and west of the lowland imposing bedrock uplands are present.

ID: C1600	NAME: Mistinikon Lake Uplands	AREA (HA): 5,071	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Strongly broken deep and shallow sandy till, and bare bedrock dominate this upland site with white birch. Black spruce (31 to 100 years old), 31 to 70 year old jack pine, and poplar/aspen complement the white birch stands. Old growth yellow birch (121+ years) is also represented within the candidate. This site is located just west of Mistinikon Lake with a number of good sized, unnamed lakes throughout the southern section. An old fire lookout remains just west of Mistinikon Lake. The site contains scattered white pine, cliff communities, steep hills, and kettle lakes.

ID: C1602	NAME: Whitefish and East Whitefish Lakes Sandy Till Uplands	AREA (HA): 10,530	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Two landforms dominate this candidate area. Moderately broken outwash uplands of lacustrine fine sand dominated by moderate to old growth black spruce and all three age classes of poplar/aspen. Old growth larch is also associated with this site. A second dominant landform, moderately broken shallow sandy till uplands of lacustrine fine sand and clay, also occurs. Here black spruce (31 to 100 year old), moderate and old age white birch, jack pine, and poplar/aspen stands dominate the landscape. Old growth yellow birch and larch are also associated with this landform. Old growth white pine stands were observed around Whitefish Lake.
LAND USE INTENT: Outpost camps are currently situated in the site, their use will be permitted to continue upon regulation of the site.

ID: C1603	NAME: Elspeth Lake White Birch Outwash	AREA (HA): 312	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is a small site that is accessible via the Nighthawk Lake road. Weakly broken outwash deposit is nested between Elspeth and Sara lakes, and is covered by old growth white birch, poplar/aspen, and young jackpine. Elspeth Lake is a stocked trout lake. A small ridge runs through the centre of the site. An old fire tower is located on it. Osprey and heron nesting sites occur here.

ID: C1604	NAME: Driftwood River White Cedar Lacustrine	AREA (HA): 78	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This 41 - 110 year old cedar wetland forest is located near the headwaters of the Driftwood River. The major landform is lacustrine in nature with some cedar located on weakly broken outwash deposits. The area provides winter moose habitat.

ID: C1606	NAME: North of the North French River	AREA (HA): 158,729	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Part of the Cochrane Remote Wilderness Strategy, this site consists of an esker complex with mixed deciduous forest, dense conifer forest, and a small amount of sparse forest. It also includes a chain of small lakes. Caribou have been sighted in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: Outpost camps are currently situated in the site, their use will be permitted to continue upon regulation of the site.

ID: C1607	NAME: Kesagami River Outwash Plain	AREA (HA): 1,994	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains weakly broken outwash plain with dense conifer, mixed conifer, and trace amounts of spruce, wetlands, and water. The weakly broken outwash plain landform is the only occurrence of its type in the site district. Caribou have been sighted in the area.
LAND USE INTENT: Outpost camps situated within the site will be permitted to continue operating upon regulation.

ID: C1608	NAME: Makobe Grays Ice Margin	AREA (HA): 1,048	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site incorporates earth and life science features. The earth science site is recognized as a kame ridge moraine. The predominant features include strongly broken bedrock with dense conifer and deciduous forests. This Conservation Reserve is attached to Makobe Grays Waterway Provincial Park and canoe route.

ID: C1611	NAME: Shallow River Poplar Outwash	AREA (HA): 281	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This moderately broken outwash is basically an old growth poplar/aspen stand located near one of the headwaters of Shallow River and Salve Creek. Much of the rest of the site is exposed bedrock with some marsh lands associated with waterways and lakes bordering the site. Mixed forest and sparse forest associated with wetlands also occur.

ID: C1612	NAME: Seguin River Conifer and Fens	AREA (HA): 6,539	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area contains young, medium, and older jackpine on weakly broken bedrock and lacustrine deposit. It also contains some medium aged spruce, sparse forest, and muskeg. Topography is moderately broken with fine sands and clay between exposed bedrock outcrops. The forest is mainly coniferous with stands of spruce and jackpine.. Shoreline fens occur along creeks.

ID: C1613	NAME: Bryce and Cane Township Wetland Lacustrine	AREA (HA): 603	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains weakly broken outwash with the following vegetation types: brush & alder, aspen, and spruces. Bedrock areas with open wetland, and jack pine are also present along with lacustrine deposit with brush & alder, aspen, and open wetland.

ID: C1615	NAME: Masonville Bernhardt Muskeg Maple Moraine	AREA (HA): 111	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The representative features found here include open muskeg, medium aged red/silver maple and old birch on weakly broken ground moraine.

ID: C1617	NAME: Big Spring Lake Bedrock	AREA (HA): 1,065	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The dominant landform vegetation type represented here is weakly broken bedrock with mixed deciduous forests. Other vegetation types include sparse forest, mixed coniferous forests, and dense deciduous forests. Some wetlands occur.

ID: C1623	NAME: Henwood Township Forest and Wetland	AREA (HA): 308	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site consists of weakly broken bedrock with brush & alder, open wetland, spruce, larch, and treed wetland. Also present is lacustrine deposit with old balsam poplar, jack pine, and open muskeg, and rock.

ID: C1626	NAME: South Grassy Lake Outwash	AREA (HA): 327	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Young spruce on moderately broken outwash deposits and moderately broken bedrock are the primary representative features of this site.

ID: C1628	NAME: Trollope Lake Burnt Hill Poplar Spruce	AREA (HA): 2,154	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The area is dominated primarily by medium aged poplar and spruce on weakly broken bedrock, and young/old poplar and medium aged spruce on lacustrine deposits. In addition some mixed forest stands and pure jack pine stands were observed in the northern portion of the site.

ID: C1634	NAME: Dunmore Township Balsam Fir Outwash Deposit	AREA (HA): 125	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains some balsam fir, open and treed muskeg and older birch on moderately broken outwash deposits.

ID: C1702	NAME: Northern Claybelt Forest Complex	AREA (HA): 72,011	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This large complex of land and water protects ecosystems that are characteristic of the Northern Claybelt Forest. Its combined size, location within the claybelt and diversity of natural features make an important contribution toward the conservation of northeastern Ontario's biological diversity. Dominant representative features within this site include lacustrine deposit with dense coniferous forest, mixed coniferous forest, sparse forest, and fen. The area contains an abundance of peatlands which serve to enhance the existing Hicks Oke Bog Provincial Nature Reserve with its variety of bog formations. This site includes portions of two provincially significant life science sites: the Nat River Uplands contains stands of old growth poplar/aspen, spruce and white birch over two different bedrock formations, and a portion of Enid Creek surrounded by young and old growth spruce on two different landform types.
LAND USE INTENT: Continued commercial use of a forest access road through the reserve will be permitted.

ID: C1703	NAME: Fraserdale Wetland Complex	AREA (HA): 18,524	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is dominated by lacustrine deposit with miscellaneous wetlands. Also represented is lacustrine deposit with dense coniferous forest and sparse forest. Weakly broken ground moraine with sparse forest and miscellaneous wetlands is also present.

ID: C1704	NAME: Hilliardton Marsh	AREA (HA): 5,787	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Representative features within this site include: lacustrine deposit with mixed deciduous forest, mixed conifer forest, and sparse forest. The area also contains wetlands which provide excellent habitat for waterfowl.

ID: C1705	NAME: McGarry Township Forest	AREA (HA): 1,643	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area is composed of moderately broken bedrock with dense coniferous forests, mixed coniferous forests, mixed deciduous forests, and sparse forest.

ID: C1707	NAME: East Larder River Bedrock Conifer	AREA (HA): 7,089	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area is composed of moderately broken bedrock with dense coniferous forests, mixed coniferous forests, mixed deciduous forests, and sparse forest.

ID: C1711	NAME: Tembec Wetland	AREA (HA): 7,922	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains large expanses of wetland with some areas of weakly broken ground moraine covered by dense deciduous forests and fen.

ID: C1712	NAME: Coral Rapids Wetland	AREA (HA): 6,182	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is comprised mainly of organic deposit covered predominantly by wetlands. Also represented is weakly broken ground moraine with wetlands, and organic deposit covered by dense coniferous forest, and sparse forest.

ID: C1714	NAME: MacDougall Point Penninsula	AREA (HA): 4,846	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Located on MacDougall Point in Lake Abitibi, this site is representative of lacustrine deposit with mixed conifer forest, mixed deciduous forest, and sparse forest.

ID: C2201	NAME: Low/Bell	AREA (HA): 5,300	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains lacustrine deposits with esker formations that are very unusual in this site district.

ID: C2204	NAME: Nakina Northeast Waterway	AREA (HA): 12,061	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This waterway is a remote route and a popular angling and canoeing area that contains representative landscape and vegetation features.
LAND USE INTENT: Road crossings for forestry purposes are permitted, but should be minimized.

ID: C2207	NAME: Longlac North	AREA (HA): 1,654	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including wetlands and mixed forests on lacustrine deposits and weakly broken ground moraine.

ID: C2208	NAME: Killala Lake	AREA (HA): 12,484	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including conifer and deciduous forests on lacustrine deposits and weakly to moderately broken bedrock. Killala Lake is a fish sanctuary (lake trout refugia) where angling is not permitted.

ID: C2209	NAME: Lower Twin Lake	AREA (HA): 450	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forests on weakly broken ground moraine and end moraine, treed wetlands and burns.

ID: C2216	NAME: Long Lake	AREA (HA): 1,762	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including conifer and sparse forests on moderately broken ground moraine. Long Lake also provides significant recreational and tourism opportunities.

ID: C2217	NAME: Fishnet Lake	AREA (HA): 3,448	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed conifer forest with some deciduous on weakly, moderately and strongly broken ground moraine.

ID: C2219	NAME: Three Mile Narrows	AREA (HA): 622	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forests on moderately and strongly broken ground moraine.

ID: C2222	NAME: Lake Superior North Shore	AREA (HA): 1,554	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This spectacular scenic area includes all Crown lands between Highway 17 and Lake Superior east of Nipigon. These 3 areas of rugged cliffs and bays contain many representative landform and vegetation types, rugged coastal terrain, and archaeological potential. There are a number of recreational and tourism opportunities.
LAND USE INTENT: These 3 areas are recommended as a conservation reserve. All private lands (including mining claims) are not within the conservation reserve.

ID: C2223	NAME: Onaman Lake	AREA (HA): 4,404	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area includes all islands in Onaman Lake, and portions of the northern shoreline. The site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forest types and wetlands on weakly broken ground moraine. The islands are important woodland caribou habitat.

ID: C2225	NAME: Gravel River	AREA (HA): 45,426	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Gravel River follows a major geologic fault structure with representative landscapes and vegetation features. The terrain is very rugged with extensive uplands and mixed boreal forests. The river is an important cold water fishery.
LAND USE INTENT: The boundary is variable to capture watershed components and representative portions of the adjacent landscape features.

ID: C2228	NAME: Kagianagami Lake	AREA (HA): 677	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forest types on weakly to moderately broken outwash deposits and bedrock.

ID: C2231	NAME: Jackson Lake	AREA (HA): 1,063	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed and sparse forests on weakly broken ground moraine and bedrock, open wetlands.

ID: C2232	NAME: Seahorse Lake	AREA (HA): 586	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landscape and vegetation types, including conifer and conifer mixed forests, and treed wetlands on moderately broken ground moraine.

ID: C2234	NAME: Kama Cliffs	AREA (HA): 4,026	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The cliffs at Kama Bay are an impressive and easily accessed example of the rugged topography along the north shore of Lake Superior. An existing provincial nature reserve is located within the site, and a highway rest stop is located adjacent. This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including sparse forests and conifer on strongly broken bedrock.

ID: C2238	NAME: Nipigon Palisades	AREA (HA): 9,556	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is a prominent geological canyon/ravine feature, which includes a major moose travel corridor (Cash Creek), diabase sill tablelands, well-known scenic geologic features, and microclimates favourable for arctic and rare plant species. A variety of landform and vegetation types are represented here. The area around the Palisades of the Pijitiwabik is a major glacial spillway from prehistoric Lake Kelvin. It is an important tourism and recreational area.
LAND USE INTENT: Further work is required to determine exact boundary locations. All private land is excluded from the designation, as well as a number of important aggregate sources. Road access for forestry purposes through the conservation reserve to access forest stands in the Enhanced Management Area to the north is permitted. Optional access corridors will be identified and evaluated through the forest management planning process.

ID: C2242	NAME: Ogoki Lake	AREA (HA): 62,321	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The 'Mojikit Triangle' is an area of diverse wildlife habitat, including eagle, osprey, sandhill cranes and caribou. A variety of wetlands are associated with this site. The area is also in the heart of an important remote resource-based tourism area and a popular and scenic recreational lake.
LAND USE INTENT: The extent of significant caribou habitat and proposed 20 year cut blocks adjacent to the site will be evaluated during the definition of the detailed boundaries of this conservation reserve. Discussions on the future management of this area will be undertaken with local First Nations and stakeholders.

ID: C2243	NAME: Black Bay Bog	AREA (HA): 1,991	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is a provincially significant bog complex situated at the eastern end of Black Bay. This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including deciduous and mixed conifer forests on lacustrine deposits as well as open wetlands.

ID: C2245	NAME: Lake Superior Archipelago	AREA (HA): 49,181	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area includes all of the Crown islands in the large archipelago in northern Lake Superior, from the western end of Black Bay Peninsula to the eastern end of the planning area. The larger islands include St. Ignace Island, Simpson Island, Verte Island. This area also includes a portion of the outer shore of Black Bay Peninsula. The archipelago is an area of spectacular scenery in a wilderness environment. Many representative and unique landform vegetation types occur here, along with significant historical and archaeological sites.
LAND USE INTENT: To promote the renewal of ecosystems in the archipelago, natural fires should be allowed to burn on the islands where no human or structural values are at risk. A number of private land parcels currently owned by the Ontario government on a number of islands in the archipelago will be depatented and form part of the conservation reserve.

ID: C2247	NAME: Lake Nipigon	AREA (HA): 133,874	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The southern and northern portions of Lake Nipigon contain high recreation potential, diverse wildlife habitat and plants reaching their northern limits. The northern portion is a major caribou habitat area and travel corridor. This large area contains a wide variety of representative landform and vegetation types. This area includes all Crown islands and the majority of the shoreline of Lake Nipigon.
LAND USE INTENT: Big Game hunting on the islands is currently prohibited by regulation. It is recommended that the southern islands be regulated as a primitive weapons hunting area and that hunting continue to be prohibited on the northern islands. To promote the renewal of ecosystems, natural fires should be allowed to burn on the islands where no human or structural values are at risk. Intent for Geikie Island is to retain its Crown Game Preserve Status. Intent for Outer Barn Island is to rescind the Wilderness Area Act regulation. Commercial Fishing and associated traditional facilities will be allowed to continue, subject to existing regulations and policies. Fisheries enhancement will focus on naturally occurring species. Implementation should include decisions relating to the identification of specific shorelands for tourism or recreation oriented facility development on a strictly controlled basis, as well as an examination of the complex of proposed and existing protected areas to determine an appropriate mix of conservation reserves and parks (e.g., review of existing provincial nature reserves).

ID: C2249	NAME: Attwood River	AREA (HA): 19,481	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This waterway provides a wilderness interconnection between Wabakimi Provincial Park and the Albany River Provincial Park.
LAND USE INTENT: Further design work will be applied to this area to ensure all known values are contained within the boundary. Boundaries will be set at an average of 200 metres from the shoreline. Road crossings for forestry purposes are permitted, but should be minimized.

ID: C2260	NAME: Western Lake Superior	AREA (HA): 1,230	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This includes all Crown islands and portions of Crown shorelines (e.g., Prince-Jarvis Location, Sturgeon Bay) on the western part of Lake Superior. This is a rugged area of rock and cliffs, spectacular scenery with recreational potential. Included are some archaeological sites, interesting geological features and boating and hiking opportunities.
LAND USE INTENT: A number of private land parcels currently owned by the Ontario government will be depatented and form part of the conservation reserve. Private lands and aggregate operations are not within the conservation reserve.

ID: C2262	NAME: Ottertooth	AREA (HA): 26,782	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area represents provincially significant and unique geological features associated with the Kaiashk spillway, which drained glacial Lake Agassiz into the Lake Superior basin. Other features include: washboard moraine; braided eskers; braided stream patterns; bedrock ledges at the head of the spillway; secondary deltas; and deep river canyons. Lakes and rivers provide recreational canoeing and boating opportunities.
LAND USE INTENT: The existing Provincial Nature Reserves abutting this area will remain in that classification.

ID: C2264	NAME: Dog River	AREA (HA): 2,658	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a provincially significant wetland, fisheries and wildlife habitat and an archaeological site.

ID: C2265	NAME: East Bay	AREA (HA): 1,551	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a representative upland forest around the access area to the east arm of Dog Lake.
LAND USE INTENT: Private lands are excluded from the area.

ID: C2266	NAME: Pearson Twp	AREA (HA): 497	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site is comprised of a provincially significant wetland complex.

ID: C2267	NAME: Cedar Creek	AREA (HA): 275	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including deciduous and mixed forests on strongly broken end moraine and ground moraine.

ID: C2268	NAME: Fallingsnow Lake	AREA (HA): 779	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed deciduous and conifer forest types on strongly broken ground moraine. Fallingsnow Lake is a lake trout lake. The Fallingsnow Lake area is popular for birding and banding by locals and tourists.

ID: C2279	NAME: Lac des Mille Lacs	AREA (HA): 2,368	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forest types on weakly broken ground moraine and beach and aeolian deposits.

ID: C2285	NAME: Trewartha Creek	AREA (HA): 8,762	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including peatland communities, and deciduous and conifer forests and open wetlands on weakly broken outwash deposits.

ID: C2292	NAME: Gulliver River	AREA (HA): 2,784	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forests on moderately broken beach and aeolian deposits and wetlands on moderately broken outwash.

ID: C2299	NAME: Campus Lake	AREA (HA): 18,755	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including wetland communities and mixed conifer and deciduous forest types on weakly broken beach and aeolian deposits and weakly broken ground moraine. It also encompasses some spectacular scenic and recreational areas adjacent to Turtle River Provincial Park.

ID: C2300	NAME: Gull - Christina	AREA (HA): 1,735	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including burns, mixed conifer and treed wetlands on weakly broken bedrock.

ID: C2303	NAME: Brokenmouth River	AREA (HA): 844	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forest types and burns on moderately broken bedrock and ground moraine.

ID: C2305	NAME: Harth Lake	AREA (HA): 3,516	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a variety of features including an old jack pine stand (140 - 160 years), peat lands, fens, a glaciofluvial landform complex, modified esker ridge, kettles, kames, perched delta, outwash and De Geer moraine ridges.

ID: C2307	NAME: Pyatt Lake	AREA (HA): 227	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a treed low shrub bog, open graminoid fen, and other bogs, swamps and fens.

ID: C2308	NAME: Adair Lake	AREA (HA): 2,050	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including glaciofluvial sand and gravel outwash fronting the Hartmann moraine, open bog and fen, treed bog and fen and swamp.

ID: C2310	NAME: Whitemud	AREA (HA): 17,124	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a large peatland complex, uncommon or rare plant communities and postglacial landscapes.

ID: C2311	NAME: Melgund Lake	AREA (HA): 1,726	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including burns and mixed forests on lacustrine deposits and weakly and moderately broken ground moraine.

ID: C2312	NAME: Side Lake	AREA (HA): 70	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a provincially significant patterned (ridge and swale) peatland.

ID: C2313	NAME: Stormy Lake	AREA (HA): 419	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This area contains upland and lowland old growth cedar.

ID: C2316	NAME: East Wabigoon River	AREA (HA): 953	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains wild rice stands, a fish sanctuary, and a marsh and swamp wetland complex. It is part of the Stormy Lake canoe route.

ID: C2317	NAME: Lac Seul Islands	AREA (HA): 13,335	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The area contains old growth red and white pine, nesting sites for bald eagles and ospreys, sand dune complexes, caribou calving sites, historic and archaeological sites and tourism, recreation and scenic values.
LAND USE INTENT: This site includes all Crown land on islands in Lac Seul, with the exception of (the locally known) Big Island and Reserve Island on the east end of the lake.

ID: C2321	NAME: Airport Road	AREA (HA): 39	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including bogs, thicket swamp, conifer swamp, ice contact delta of Hartmann moraine.

ID: C2327	NAME: Upper English River	AREA (HA): 11,377	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Upper English River (Shikag Lake to Highway 599) contains representative landscape features and provides a waterway linkage from the Brightsand River Provincial Park to the English River system.

ID: C2329	NAME: Farrington Twp	AREA (HA): 1,028	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including wetlands and mixed forest types on weakly broken ground moraine.

ID: C2331	NAME: Highrock	AREA (HA): 3,514	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: These are dispersed areas of old growth red pine, white pine and cedar on islands and peninsulas within the Highrock Forest Management Unit. Included are esker ridges with a variety of landform types.

ID: C2332	NAME: Bruce Lake	AREA (HA): 5,113	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including a diverse peatland developed on a weakly broken plain of lacustrine clay and sandy till, and terminal moraines.

ID: C2334	NAME: Trout Lake	AREA (HA): 60,454	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including treed wetland, burns and mixed forests on moderately broken bedrock. The area is an important remote tourism resource. The islands of Trout Lake contain important recreational and tourism values and development, with multi-aged forests, sand beaches, caribou calving sites, traditional native uses and wild rice harvesting.
LAND USE INTENT: The existing Trout Lake Provincial Nature Reserve will remain in its current location and classification. In defining detailed boundaries of this conservation reserve, the possibility of increasing the size of the protected area on Otter Peninsula and other peninsulas on the lake, and reducing the size of the addition adjacent to the Trout Lake Nature Reserve will be examined.

ID: C2337	NAME: Manitou	AREA (HA): 3,694	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site includes areas of old growth red pine, white pine and cedar on islands and peninsulas within Manitou Lake and nearby lakes.

ID: C2338	NAME: West Wabigoon River	AREA (HA): 506	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is the largest larch swamp in Dryden District, part of a large river riparian system.

ID: C2340	NAME: Eagle Lake Islands	AREA (HA): 1,906	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forests on weakly broken bedrock and lacustrine deposits. The islands have high recreation potential.

ID: C2341	NAME: Rainmaker Lake	AREA (HA): 15	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative old growth red and white pine forest on bare bedrock and silty sand substrates.

ID: C2344	NAME: Rainy Lake Islands	AREA (HA): 5,477	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The islands contain representative landform and vegetation types and have significant scenic and recreational attributes.
LAND USE INTENT: All private lands and heavily developed islands near the Norden Causeway are excluded from this designation.

ID: C2346	NAME: Kapesakosi Lake	AREA (HA): 21	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a representative old growth red and white pine forest.

ID: C2348	NAME: Pipestone	AREA (HA): 9,536	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This is a scenic waterway with high recreational and tourism use. It contains representative natural heritage values and old growth white pine values.

ID: C2350	NAME: Browns Inlet	AREA (HA): 3,185	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: A rare dwarf form of leatherleaf, rock ridge peatland landscapes, cultural and ecological values occur on the site. The site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including a mixture of forest types on weakly broken ground and end moraine, as well as tree and open wetlands.
LAND USE INTENT: An existing road system within the conservation reserve leading to private property will be permitted to remain.

ID: C2354	NAME: Hamill Lake	AREA (HA): 2,042	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed and sparse forests on weakly to moderately broken bedrock.

ID: C2357	NAME: Dryberry Lake	AREA (HA): 21,603	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Dryberry Lake exhibits typical rugged terrain of northwestern Ontario in a remote environment. This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed conifer, sparse forest and burn on weakly and moderately broken bedrock, and vegetated bedrock.

ID: C2361	NAME: Scotty Lake Conservation Reserve Addition	AREA (HA): 781	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve Addition	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed and sparse forests on weakly broken ground moraine and burn.
LAND USE INTENT: This is an addition to the Scotty Lake Conservation Reserve.

ID: C2362	NAME: Solitary Lake	AREA (HA): 143	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including burns, conifer, mixed wood, deciduous, strongly broken ground moraine.

ID: C2365	NAME: Scenic Lake	AREA (HA): 2,180	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including burns and mixed forests on organic deposits and weakly broken bedrock.

ID: C2366	NAME: Lake of the Woods	AREA (HA): 44,941	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: These islands and peninsulas of Lake of the Woods contain a variety of significant features including: provincially rare Bur Oak; Savannah plant communities; regionally significant plants including 3 that are listed as rare in Ontario; scenic vistas; spawning grounds; red and white pine (some old growth); prairie and southern affiliates (plants); and, clay soil species (red/green ash). The lake has extremely high recreational and tourism values. There is a large population of bald eagles and white pelicans. Much of this extensive and unique vegetation is a result of the convergence of the Prairie, Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence forest regions.
LAND USE INTENT: All private lands and heavily developed islands are excluded from this designation. Flexibility will be retained to trade private lands with lands in this designation where protection and recreational attributes can be enhanced.

ID: C2368	NAME: Campfire River	AREA (HA): 3,850	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including burns, open wetlands and mixed conifer forests on weakly broken ground moraine and lacustrine deposits. A spawning area and archaeological site are in the area.

ID: C2372	NAME: Sifton Twp	AREA (HA): 385	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains a classic raised bog.

ID: C2373	NAME: Octopus Creek	AREA (HA): 438	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including bedrock and strongly broken bedrock with conifer, deciduous and mixed forests.

ID: C2375	NAME: Aulneau Interior	AREA (HA): 2,156	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forest types and wetlands on moderately broken bedrock.

ID: C2382	NAME: Musk Lake	AREA (HA): 4,405	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The shoreline contains scenic portions of the Winnipeg River system and bald eagle nesting sites. It is one of the few locations in this site district containing clay, and includes mixed forest types on weakly broken bedrock and lacustrine deposits.

ID: C2383	NAME: Nipigon River	AREA (HA): 2,533	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The Nipigon River contains an extremely diverse and world-class fishery, eagles, osprey, rare plants, archaeological and historic sites of provincial significance. It is an important recreational waterway, and well developed for hydroelectric generation.
LAND USE INTENT: Further design work will be applied to this area to ensure all known values are contained within the boundary. Boundaries will be set at an average of 200 metres from the shoreline. Existing hydro-electric facilities and operations are permitted to continue. Private lands will be excluded.

ID: C2405	NAME: Eagle - Snowshoe	AREA (HA): 34,548	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The area includes significant caribou habitat, extensive burns, and remote tourism development. The site abuts the Ontario-Manitoba border and Woodland Caribou Provincial Park.

ID: C2409	NAME: Lawrence Lake	AREA (HA): 1,291	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Several small peninsulas and islands provide protection to representative landforms with white and red pine. This scenic area is important for backcountry recreation and remote tourism.

ID: C2410	NAME: Garden - Pakashkan	AREA (HA): 11,524	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Portions of the waterway have extremely rugged terrain and canyons in a remote setting. This area supports recreational hunting and fishing activities.
LAND USE INTENT: Boundaries will be set at an average of 200 metres from the shoreline.

ID: C2430	NAME: Twilight Lake	AREA (HA): 327	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: This site contains representative landform and vegetation types, including mixed forests on weakly broken end moraine, ground moraine and bedrock.

ID: C2500	NAME: Lake Nipigon Waters	AREA (HA): 48,500	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: Portions of 5 bays on Lake Nipigon contain sensitive and representative fisheries habitat, aquatic environments and recreational angling areas. Humboldt Bay, Wabinosh Bay, West Bay, South Bay and McIntyre Bay contain a variety of representative and unique aquatic features, including fisheries habitat, critical spawning areas, wetlands and aquatic vegetation.
LAND USE INTENT: Commercial fishing and angling will be managed through existing regulation and will continue to be subject to local planning and management.

ID: C2501	NAME: Lake of the Woods Waters	AREA (HA): 1,795	LAND USE: Conservation Reserve	CATEGORY:
AREA DESCRIPTION: The waters adjacent to the Sable Islands Provincial Nature Reserve provide continuity of protection from the mainland to the offshore islands. Important fisheries and wildlife habitat occur in the area.

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