On April 14, 2004, brothers Bill and Jack Balkwill notified the Canada South Land Trust indicating their wish to donate a conservation easement on their forty acre woodland, a two acre pond and prairie restoration site and farm laneway with old growth Sugar Maples, situated on their farm in the Town of Kingsville, Essex County. At their regular monthly meeting on May 6, 2004, CSLT executive members passed a resolution to enter into negotiations with the Balkwill brothers on this first donated conservation easement for this newly established land trust.
Enjoy a delicious buffet supper followed by a slide presentation by Ministry of Natural Resources District Ecologist Allen Woodliffe
A summary of the activities of the Canada South Land Trust over the past year.
Volunteer guides attended an orientation walk with Bill Balkwill, on May 12, 2004. The list in this article consists of some of the native plants, shrubs, trees and vines which were seen on that walk that could be identified for walk participants.
Responding to an invitation extended to the members of the Essex County Field Naturalists' Club, the Canada South Land Trust and readers of The Essex Free Press and The Kingsville Reporter as well as the Town of Kingsville mayor and councillors, twenty-five persons joined Bill Balkwill and volunteer guides for an afternoon walk in the Balkwill Woods on May 15, 2004.
Bill Balkwill has kept a record over a number of years of the bird species observed on the Balkwill farm. This is a summary as of August 2004.
Bill Balkwill talks about the construction of pond and prairie on the Balkwill Farm.
Eighteen Canada South Land Trust members and friends joined together for a picnic supper at Holiday Beach Conservation Area (HBCA) on June 5, 2004.