Cucumber Tree in Long Point National Wildlife Area: critical habitat description

Official title: Description of critical habitat of the Cucumber Tree in Long Point National Wildlife Area

Government Notices

Department of the Environment

Species at Risk Act

Description of critical habitat of the Cucumber Tree in Long Point National Wildlife Area

The Cucumber Tree (Magnolia acuminata L.) is a species listed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act as endangered. In Canada, the Cucumber Tree has a very limited distribution, with populations occurring in only two areas of southern Ontario. Critical habitat in the Long Point National Wildlife Area is identified in the Recovery Strategy for the Cucumber Tree as "the upland moist deciduous or mixed forest, often in a headwaters area with undulating topography of low swampy areas interspersed with rises. The established trees occur in the better drained areas within this matrix and regeneration is seen where the forest cover is partially open."

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to subsection 58(2) of the Species at Risk Act, critical habitat of the Cucumber Tree (Magnolia acuminata L.) in the Long Point National Wildlife Area is described as follows:

Being that all parcel of land, in the regional municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, the city of Norfolk, situated in Block 6 patented by Instrument No. 390158, in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Norfolk (No. 37) at Simcoe, dated April 11, 1979, and lying within the following described boundaries save and except any land covered by water:

Commencing at a point at UTM NAD 83, Zone 17 coordinates being Northing 4712150 metres and Easting 567400 metres;

THENCE, northeasterly in a straight line to a point at UTM NAD 83, Zone 17 coordinates being Northing 4712350 metres and Easting 568500 metres;

THENCE, due south in a straight line to a point at UTM NAD 83, Zone 17 coordinates being Northing 4712125 metres and Easting 568500 metres;

THENCE, southwesterly in a straight line to a point at UTM NAD 83, Zone 17 coordinates being Northing 4711925 metres and Easting 567400 metres;

THENCE, due north in a straight line to the point of commencement.

November 24, 2007

Michele Brenning
Director General
Canadian Wildlife Service

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