"Conserving large woodlands by providing landowners with information to help them care for their piece"

 

 

Large Woodlands Conservation Cooperative

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Contact your local stewardship council to get involved in conservation and restoration projects in your community.


Our Mission

aerial vew of fragmented forest
Over 80 percent of the woodlands
south and east of the Canadian
Shield have been lost since the
nineteenth century.

The LWCC aims to help landowners conserve and enhance the health & amount of large, unfragmented forest in south central Ontario.


The LWCC consists of landowners, naturalists, foresters, and biologists with an interest in forest management and a concern with the fragmentation of Ontario's forests. The LWCC believes the conservation & improvement of large forests can help maximize the ecological, economic and social benefits of forested ecosystems, for current and future generations.


The LWCC wants to make sure forest management assistance and stewardship programs are available and easy to find for these landowners. We link landowners with local forest management and conservation organizations through free workshops, newsletters, fact sheets, a website, referrals to stewardship programs, and site visits and consultations.


The LWCC also aims to promote the significance of large woodlands by raising awareness of large woodland issues within the conservation community and engaging the public at special events and conferences.


We are particularly interested in six focal areas in the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, Durham, and the City of Kawartha Lakes.


Please read on for more information on the importance of large woodlands



Participating Organisations


The dedication of the staff and volunteers at the following organizations make the work of the LWCC possible.


Background image provided by D. Van Hemessen.
The Large Woodlands Conservation Cooperative is grateful to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for their generous support of this program.