Category: Saving 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

The Honourable Anne McLellan, P.C., M.P. Minister of Health House of Commons Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 Dear Minister: RE: Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Screening by Fisheries and Oceans Canada for Findlay Creek/Leitrim wetlands and Transport Canada’s Area-Wide Risk Assessment of Gloucester landfill. We write to you because of our concern about the health aspects of leachate from a closed landfill owned by Transport Canada south of the Macdonald-Cartier

by Albert Dugal, published in the Dec. 1999-Jan. 2000 issue of PEN Leitrim Wetland, one of Ottawa-Carleton’s most outstanding natural areas, is threatened by proposed urban development. This provincially significant Class 1 wetland straddles Albion Road southeast of the Macdonald-Cartier Airport. One-fifth of Leitrim is federally owned by Transport Canada. The remainder belongs to individuals and developers. This 400-hectare wetland is home to over 200 species of regionally significant plants,