AUTHORITY LAND USE AND FOREST 

 ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 



Pasture Demonstrations 



Gully Control 



Land Judging Competitions (one 

 or more sponsored in co-operation 

 with the Department of Agri- 

 culture) 



Private lands reforestation assist- 

 ance (type and amount of assist- 

 ance varies between Authorities) 



Saugeen — Bell's Lake 

 M.T.R.C.A.— Albion Hills 

 Grand — Elora 

 Grand — Smeltzer 



Big Creek 

 Grand 



Ausable 



Central Lake Ontario 



Grand 



Lower Thames 



M.T.R.C.A. 



Ausable 



Big Creek 



Central Lake Ontario 



Credit 



Grand 



Holland 



M.T.R.C.A. 



Moira 



Niagara 



M.T.R.C.A. 

 Credit 



Niagara 

 Otonabee 

 Sixteen-Mile 

 Twelve-Mile 

 Upper Thames 



North Grey 

 Otter 

 Sauble 

 Saugeen 

 Spencer 

 Sydenham 

 Lower Thames 

 Upper Thames 



FOREST CONSERVATION 



Forests have an important and often intangible part to play in a watershed 

 management program. Forests are the natural covering for headwater areas, 

 swamps and gravel moraines which give rise to many small tributary streams. 

 Forests are often the only crop which can be grown on rough, rocky soils. Forests 

 embrace other factors in the conservation program such as surface or underground 

 water storage, wildlife management and recreation. 



Most conservation reports to the Authorities recommend the establishment 

 of an Authority Forest. Authority Forests may consist of existing woodlands, plus 

 areas of lands that must be reforested. The primary functions of an Authority 

 Forest in the conservation of a watershed are the protection of source areas, the 

 control and prevention of erosion and the return to forest of abandoned and open 

 lands suitable only for reforestration. 



To date approximately one million acres have been recommended for 

 acquisition by Authorities in the conservation repyorts. 



In 1962, 4,327 acres were added to the Authority Forests, bringing the total 

 acreage to 58,425. 



The Ganaraska River Conservation Authority, one of the oldest Authorities 

 in Ontario, has during the past fourteen years purchased over 40 per cent of the 

 area recommended in its conservation report. 



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