Wetland Characteristics - Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority

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FINDINGS• Background Review• Field Inventories• Significant Features
FINDINGS - Background Review• Vegetation Resources• Lyon’s Creek is characterized as an ‘Incised Meander Stream Valley’subregion, found scattered about the ‘<strong>Niagara</strong> Slough Clay Plain’ subregion.• Biota found within these river systems are generally quite diverse,occasionally containing species with distinct southern or westernaffinities• Macdonald (1980) acknowledged the long history of anthropogenicdisturbance within these river systems, and noted they often havelimited representational potential due to their generally disturbedand degraded nature.• There are no records for provincially significant vegetationcommunities or rare vascular plant species on record for the studyarea.
Page 1: LYON’S CREEK EAST WETLANDINVENTOR
Page 4 and 5: Study Area• Study area is 3.8 km
Page 6 and 7: Study Methods• Background Review
Page 8 and 9: METHODS - Background ReviewDescript
Page 10 and 11: METHODS - Inventory Design
Page 12 and 13: METHODS - Amphibian Surveys• Time
Page 14 and 15: METHODS - Sampling Stations
Page 16 and 17: METHODS - Aquatic Surveys• Fisher
Page 20 and 21: FINDINGS - Background Review• Wil
Page 22 and 23: FINDINGS - Field Inventories• Veg
Page 24 and 25: Green Ash Mineral Deciduous Swamp
Page 26 and 27: Meadowsweet Mineral Thicket Swamp
Page 28 and 29: Bulrush Mineral Shallow Marsh
Page 30 and 31: Rice-cut Grass Mineral Shallow Mars
Page 32 and 33: Water Willow Organic Shallow Marsh
Page 34 and 35: Water Lily-Bullhead Lily Floating-l
Page 36 and 37: FINDINGS - Vegetation Inventories
Page 38 and 39: FINDINGS - Field Inventories• Bre
Page 40 and 41: FINDINGS - Significant & Sensitive
Page 42 and 43: Pin Oak• Associated with glacialt
Page 44 and 45: Silky Dogwood Mineral Thicket Swamp
Page 52 and 53: RECOMMENDATIONSGeneral Precautions
Page 54 and 55: Management Option 1: Monitored Natu
Page 56 and 57: Management Option 3: CappingDescrip

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