Recovery Strategy for the Common Hoptree in Canada [Final] 2012: Appendix C

Figure 25: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_33). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 26: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_34 and #255_35). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 27: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_36). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 28: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_37). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 29: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_38). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 30: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_39). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 31: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_40). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 32: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_42). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 33: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_43). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 34: Area within which critical habitat for Common Hoptree is found (critical habitat parcel #255_41). Please refer to Section 7.1 for the description of biophysical attributes to help locate the critical habitat within this area. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

Figure 35: Location and extent of critical habitat parcel #255_1 for Common Hoptree. Critical habitat does not include existing infrastructure, existing cultivated areas, unnatural vegetation types, unvegetated beach/bar and bedrock, or areas in or adjacent to anthropogenic features where the presence of Common Hoptree is opportunistically related to the existence of these features, as described in Section 7.1.

• Essex County
  • 1. Hillman Marsh canoe launch (NHIC unpub. data, Lebedyk pers. comm. 2010, Oldham pers. comm. 2010).
  
  
• Lambton County
  • 2. Ausable River Cut Conservation Authority (Woodliffe pers. comm. 2010).
  
  
• Elgin County
  • 3. Aylmer (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  
  
• Middlesex County
  • 4. University of Western Campus, Thames River, and waste places, London
    (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  
  
• Regional Municipality of Niagara
  • 5. Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture and possibly other trees in the vicinity (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  • 6. Upper Whirlpool Woods – two saplings planted by the Niagara Parks Commission in 2003 or 2004 with funding from the Habitat Stewardship Program (Ritchie pers. comm. 2010).
  • 7. Fonthill – var. mollis at edge of a Norway Spruce shelter belt, near Woodstream and Forest Hill Boulevards (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  • 8. Ridgeville – 1.5 km north northwest – edge of Norway Spruce shelterbelt (Ambrose and Aboud 1984), near the site of a plantation (OMNR unpub. data) and former tree nursery.
  • 9. Ridgeville Cemetery – now extirpated (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  
  
• Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth
  • 10. Hamilton Harbour – shrubby hillside (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  
  
• Metro Toronto
  • 11. Don Valley and other waste places and ravines (Ambrose and Aboud 1984).
  
  
• Quebec
  • 12-15. Four populations (Rousseau 1974, Ambrose and Aboud 1984, Ambrose 2002).