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Leading Edge '99: Making Connections
Leading Edge '99: Making Connections
was a tremendous success!
The conference explored three interrelated
Biosphere Reserve themes: Communities in Action; Research,
Monitoring and Conservation Projects; and, Natural Capital - Economics,
Benefits and Values Associated with Protected Areas and Working
Landscapes.
It was the fourth in the series of Leading Edge
conferences. The conference brought together more than 200 people
to learn, teach and network, including: landowners, scientists,
environmental interest groups, researchers, corporations, artists,
government agencies, and representatives from other World Biosphere
Reserves in Canada, U.S. and Europe.
Abstracts and Papers
We have provided visitors with a compilation of abstracts
and papers from Leading Edge '99. For participants, we hope
that these findings, discussions and conclusions recall the excellence
of the presentations and the intensity of the conference.
To view an abstract or paper fom Leading Edge '99,
please click on the corresponding title. NOTE: Acrobat Reader plug-in
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version, it is available as a free download from the Adobe
website.
Session #1:
Community
Structure of Endolithic and Epilithic Lower Plants on Niagara Escarpment
Cliffs
Uta Matthes-Sears
Two
Years Later – Ecological Integrity Monitoring Program (EIMP)
Bruce Peninsula National Park
Darlene Upton
Species
of Conservation Concern’ and Their Role in Landscape Assessment
on the Central Niagara Escarpment
Robert Milne, Lorne Bennett and Mike Puddister
Explaining
the Lowstand in Georgian Bay Approximately 7,200 Years Ago: A Paleolimnilogical
Approach Using Microfossil Evidence
Adam Sarvis, Francine McCarthy and Steve Blasco
Ongoing
Research on the Black Bear Population on the Bruce Peninsula
Scott Sutton, Kevin Robinson and Jessica Lusted
Monitoring
Phragmites Australis at Long Point, Ontario: Past, Present, and
Future
Kerrie L. Wilcox and Scott A. Petrie
Determining
Past Nutrient and Deepwater Dissolved Oxygen Levels for Lakes in
the Northern Niagara Escarpment: Implications in Terms of Watershed
Management
Kimberley E. Neill, Petra Werner and John P. Smol
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Session #2:
Achieving
Sustainable Use Initiatives in a Major Population Centre
Anne Redish
Identifying
Significant Woodlands – Part of the Process of Bringing Halton’s
Greenlands System Into Conformity with the Provincial Policy Statement
Lori Riviere and Suzanne McInnes
Developing
Policies for Groundwater Management
Steve Holysh
Lists
of Priority Bird Species: A Conservation Tool for Municipal Planning
– A Case Study in the Escarpment Region
Andrew Couturier
Monitoring
Accuracy and the Decomposition of Error Committed by Volunteers
in a Wetland Wildlife Monitoring Program
Lisa McLaughlin and Stew Hilts
Evaluating
the Niagara Escarpment at Queenston as a Cultural Heritage Landscape
J. Ross Raymond and Leah D. Wallace
Forest
Fragmentation – What Can Fragstats Tell Us About the Niagara
Escarpment
Brent Tegler and Deborah Ramsay
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Session #3:
Community Involvement
in Environmental Planning: A Case Study of Land Care Niagara Activities
Karen Krug
A Community
Based Approach to Natural Heritage Protection and Enhancement
Maria Alles - De Vos, Tony Iacobelli and Nadja Davidson
Preparing Conservation
Plans for Rural Landowners: The Student Conservation Planning Service,
Part I
Melissa Baron, Romi Oshier, Stew Hilts, Julie Hordowick, Bob
Baker, Peter Mitchell, Bob Morris and Mike Puddister
Preparing Conservation
Plans for Rural Landowners: The Student Conservation Planning Service,
Part II
Stew Hilts, Trista Forth, Jenn Skelton, J. Whitley, L. King,
Julie Hordowick and Peter Mitchell
Data, Metadata,
and the Next Wave in Information Access
David A. Calderisi
Climate Change
Trends Along the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve
James Hamilton and Graham Whitelaw
“Over
My Dead Body"
William B. “Sarge” Sargant
Satellite
Tracking and Staging Ecology of Eastern Population Tundra Swans
Scott A. Petrie
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Session #4:
The
Niagara Escarpment Ancient Tree Atlas Project; The Hunt for Ontario’s
Oldest Trees
Peter E. Kelly and Douglas W. Larson
Growing
Native Plants Through Community Partnerships: Project Care (Carolinian
Action Restoration and Education)
Wendy Cridland
Shaping
the Next Landscape: Rehabilitation Monitoring at Dufferin Aggregates’
Milton Quarry
Ken Zimmerman, Sarah B. Lowe and Doug Vanderveer
Towards a Niagara
Escarpment Interpretive Centre
Craig Curtis
Mitigation
Strategies for Southern Ontario Populations of Common Buckthorn,
Dame’s Rocket and Garlic Mustard
Stephen Murphy, Jay Flanagan, Kevin Noll, Dana Wilson and Bruce
Duncan
Management
of Abandoned Aggregate Properties Program
Christopher McGuckin
Field
Experiments on the Restoration of Degraded Cliff-Edge Forests Within
Bruce Peninsula National Park
Douglas Larson, Uta Matthes- Sears and John Gerrath
Evidence
of Prehistoric Drainage and an Extremely Low Lake Level Associated
with the Submerged Niagara Escarpment North of Tobermory
Steve Blasco, Scarlett Janusas, Jessica Lusted, Stan McClellan
and Jim Shearer
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Session #5:
Manitoulin’s
Escarpment: The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy’s Work to
Date and Plans for the Future
Robert Barnett
Building
the Great Arc in the Great Lakes Region
Gordon Nelson, Patrick Lawrence and Catherine Beck
Working
Together to Promote and Preserve the Thousand Islands: Preliminary
Results of a Biosphere Reserve Feasibility Study
Leif Helmer
Escarpment
Outreach Initiatives: Challenges for the 21st Century
Jim Molnar
Species
Sensitivity to Climate Change in the Kejimkujik National Park Region
Tamara Gomer
Mapping
Ecological Data Online: Biospheres, GIS and the Web
Craig Stewart and Fred Downing
Spatial
Analysis in Support of the Georgian Bay Littoral Biosphere Reserve
Nomination
John Sorrell and Paul Zorn
Prioritizing
Land for Restoration and Protection in a Subwatershed of the Credit
River
Jen Turner and Janet E. Mersey
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Session #6:
Economic
Information: A Platform for Improving Park – Local Communications
Heather Anne Paleczny
Enhancing
and Sustaining Ecotourism in Waterton Biosphere Reserve
Michelle MacDonald
Port
Dover Lions Redevelopment of Ivy’s Property – Community-
based Landscape Restoration – A Delicate Mix of Human Use and
Habitat Restoration
Mary Elder and Herb Rogers
NEBRS
Research and Monitoring Partnerships
Alice Casselman and Robert Putnam
The
Impact of Recreational Rock-Climbing on the Flora and Land Snail
Fauna of the Niagara Escarpment in Milton, Ontario
Michelle McMillan and Doug Larson
Scouting
Youth Implement Long- Term Conservation Plan at Scout Camp Nemo
Hague Vaughan
The
Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association: Connecting Canadian Communities
to Address Sustainability Issues
Brian Craig
Eye
Spy for Ecologists: A Biophysical Inventory Study for the Bruce
Trail Association
Emma West
Tourism
in Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve
Nic de Salaberry and Donald G. Reid
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