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MOUNTAIN LOCKS PA

QUICK ReSPONSe TRAILS

Pleaseshare!

I you would like to express your support o the heritage status o

Mountain Locks Park, please reer to the ollowing contacts:

Dr. Richard M. Alway

Chairman and Ontario Representative,

Historic Sites and Monuments Board o Canada

5th Floor, (25-5-O)

25 Eddy Street

Gatineau, Quebec

K1A 0M5

E-mail: hsmbc-clmhc@pc.gc.ca

Toll-ree phone: 1-855-283-8730

Facsimile: (819) 934-1115

Mr. Rick Dykstra

Member o Parliament, St. Catharines

61 Geneva Street

St. Catharines, Ontario

L2R 4M6

Phone (St. Catharines Oce): (905) 934-6767

Phone (Ottawa Oce: (613) 992-3352

Website: http://www.rickdykstra.ca/

Native Deciduous Forest

Native Conierous Visual Screen

Native Eastern Tallgrass PrairieTe park (in white) and its immediate surroundings.

For more information please scan thefolloing Quick Response (QR) code with a

compatible device, such as a smartphoneequipped with a QR scanning application.

sources

1 Invasive Plants o Natural Habitats in Canada: An Integrated Review o

Wetland and Upland Species and Legislation Governing their Control

(1999), Environment Canada.

2 Sustaining Biodiversity: A Strategic Plan or Managing Invasive Plants

in Southern Ontario (2002), Havinga, D., and Ontario Invasive Plants

Working Group.

3 Species at Risk Act: Schedule 1 (Subsections 2(1), 42(2), and 68(2))

List o Wildlie Species At Risk (2002), Government o Canada, Queens

Printer or Canada, Ottawa.

4 Trees in Canada (1995), Farrar, J.L., Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd.,

Markham.5 Planting the Seed: A Guide to Establishing Prairie and Meadow Com-

munities in Southern Ontario (2000), Environment Canada.

DREW GRAHAM + DESIREE VALADARES, 2011

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exISTINg INvASIve SPeCIeSTObe ReMOved1,2

A plant is invasive i it moves into a habitat and reproduces so aggressively that it displac-

es some o the original components o the vegetative community. - Environment Canada 1

TReeS

Manitoba maple (Acer negundo)

Norway maple (Acer platanoides )

European buckthorn, common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

willow, various species (Salix spp.)

These species aggressively take over their habitat and adjacent habitats and can be very dicult to

control.2

gRASSeS

Turgrass

Traditional tur consumes much o the precipitation and is high maintenance, both o which have

negative environmental conseques.2

NATIvedeCIdUOUSSPeCIeSTObe INTROdUCed

These trees either Endangered, o Special Concern or are specically native to the Niagara Region 4. They will provide a can

NATIve CONIfeROUS SPeCIeSTObe INTROdUCed

These evergreens will provide a visual screen between park users and the

industrial land uses to the north and east o the site.

LegeNd

Native Eastern Tallgrass Prairie

Sparse Native Deciduous Forest

Dense Native Deciduous Forest (including native edge sp

Native Conierous Visual Screen

NATIveeASTeRN TALLgRASS PRAIRIe SPeCIeSTObe IN

Grasses, wildfowers, and orbs comprising tallgrass priarie provide s

and ood and habitat or insects and small mammals.5

NATIve fOReSTedgeSPeCIeSTObe INTROdUCed

These small trees and large shrubs will be planted along the south edge o

the orest and provide showy colour and provide ood or birds .

blue ash(Fraxinus quadrangulata)

SpeciAlconcern3

butternut(Juglans cinerea)

endAngered3

tuliptree(Liriodendron tulipiera)

niAgArA-SpeciFic4

cucumbertree(Magnolia acuminata)

endAngered3

chinq(Quercus

niAgA

Canadian hemlock(Tsuga canadensis)

eastern white pine(Pinus Strobus)

white spruce(Picea glauca)

grASS SpecieS5 ApproximATe Hei

big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) 3.0+ m

Canada wild rye (Elymus canadensis) 1.3 m

indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) 2.5 m

WildFloWerAnd Forb SpecieS5

FloWer colou

butterfy milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) orange/yello

showy tick-treoil (Desmodium canadense) pink

dense blazing star (Liatris spicata) purple

wild bergamot (Monarda fstulosa) white

black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) yellow

gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis) golden

pagoda dogwood(Cornus alterniolia)

common which-hazel(Hamamelis virginiana)

staghorn sumac(Rhus typhina)

sweet viburnum(Rhus typhina)