Long-Term Invasive Species Monitoring: Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Invasive Plants

Title

Long-Term Invasive Species Monitoring: Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Invasive Plants

Author

Kolten Hooper

Host Organization

Haliburton Highlands Land Trust, Greg Wickware

Supervising Faculty

Tom Whillans, Environmental and Resource Science/Studies

Date

2020

Location of Document

Online

Area

Haliburton County

Subject

Environmental Science, Wildlife Biology

Abstract

The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust recognizes invasive species as critical components of monitoring biodiversity. With this, they seek to determine which invasive terrestrial plant species have been sighted on the HHLT properties, which species could be present and and how the HHLT should be monitoring for invasive plant species. In order to become more informed in these areas, the HHLT has posed three questions that guide the research of the report. These questions are as follows;

1) What invasive species have been sighted on or in lands adjacent to the HHLT properties: Fred and Pearl Barry Wetland, Barnum Creek Nature Reserve, Dahl Forest, Smith Forest, and Norah’s Island.
2) What invasive species could exist on or in lands adjacent to any of the above-mentioned properties?
3) What monitoring protocols are used by similar organizations and could be implemented by the HHLT to monitor their properties for invasive species?

The purpose of this project is to answer each of the HHLT research questions in order to better inform the land trust of the threat of invasive plants and potential ways to approach monitoring them in the future.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Kolten Hooper, Long-Term Invasive Species Monitoring: Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Invasive Plants, Trent University, 2020