Category: Leitrim Wetland

BACKGROUNDER Information from Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers, biologist, on Blanding’s Turtle at Leitrim Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa. He has published over 30 scientific papers on the ecology of Canadian reptiles since 2000. Blanding’s Turtle is the only species in the genus Emydoidea. Its populations in the Great Lakes/St-Lawrence Region are Threatened according to the lists of Endangered Species

Dr. G. Clarke Topp Soil Physicist Education: B.S.A. (1959) Univ. of Guelph; M.Sc. (Physics) (1962), Ph.D. (Soil Physics) (1964) Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Employment Experience Summary: Clarke was research scientist for 37 years with Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa. His primary research focus was to improve field measurement methods for soil-water properties and parameters. In the late 70s he introduced the soil community to the use of high frequency electromagnetic

BACKGROUNDER Findings of Dr. G. Clarke Topp, soil physicist Dr. Clarke Topp is one of Canada’s most eminent soil physicists, now retired from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This Summer, Dr. Topp made measurements of soil permeability at seven locations around the perimeter of the portion of Leitrim Wetland that is supposedly ‘protected.’ His conclusions are unequivocal: * The permeability of the upper 1.5 m of soil materials in the area