Please view our new Notification Plan for Phragmites Management.
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Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service and the Nature Conservancy of Canada will conduct annual management of Phragmites in the Long Point Region. Plants in selected areas will be treated with an herbicide (Habitat Aqua in wet areas; RoundUp VisionMAX in dry areas) to manage the growth and limit the spread of
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Public Notice Notification of Herbicide Application for the Management of Invasive Phragmites within the Long Point Region Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service and the Nature Conservancy of Canada will conduct annual management of Phragmites in the Long Point Region. Plants in selected areas will be treated with an herbicide (RoundUp
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Notification of Aerial and Ground Herbicide Application for the Control of Invasive Phragmites within the Long Point Region PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE FOR LOCATION SPECIFIC UPDATES DURING TREATMENT Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy of Canada will conduct annual management of invasive Phragmites in the Long Point Region.
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Notification of Aerial and Ground Herbicide Application for the Control of Invasive Phragmites within the Long Point Region PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE FOR LOCATION SPECIFIC UPDATES DURING TREATMENT Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, and
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The Long Point Phragmites Action Alliance held a virtual public information session on July 30th 2021. During the session representatives from the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service, the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, and Parks Canada presented on the success of Phragmites control
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New for 2021! Phragmites must be managed at a landscape scale to truly achieve success. With that in mind the LPPAA is expanding beyond the coastal wetlands and the Big Creek watershed to the rest of Norfolk County in 2021. This will allow anyone in Norfolk County with Phragmites on their property to have control
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The second phase of Phragmites control in the Long Point region is to expand control services up the Big Creek watershed. In 2018 the LPPAA developed a subcommittee known as the Big Creek Watershed Subcommittee (BCWS) tasked with coordinating the expansion of Phragmites control services. This expansion of services allows private landowners to tap into
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Since 2015, the LPPAA have been implementing a collaborative approach to Phragmites management in the Long Point region to address the impacts of Phragmites and protect the region’s globally significant biodiversity. The first phase of the project, which continues today, has been primarily focused on management of Phragmites in the coastal meadow marshes at Long
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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ontario Parks, Canadian Wildlife Service and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (“the project team”) have recognized invasive Phragmites australis as a significant threat to biodiversity and Species at Risk at Long Point and Rondeau coastal marshes. Using currently available management tools, the Project Team has been working with
Long Point and Rondeau Phragmites Control Project – 2020 Summary Read More »