The Long Point Region Conservation Area is an agency of the province of
Ontario, Canada
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...
, formed to preserve the volume of flow, and purity, of the watercourses that flow into
Lake Erie
Lake Erie ( ) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest avera ...
, near
Long Point.
[
Rivers that flow through the region include ]Big Otter Creek
Big Otter Creek (alternately Otter River, Big Creek) is a waterway that empties into Lake Erie at Port Burwell, Ontario.
It is long, and the area of its drainage basin is .
The creek's headwaters are north of the Horseshoe Moraine, and its mo ...
, Big Creek, Lynn River
The Lynn River is a fresh water river located in Norfolk County, Ontario, Norfolk County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It empties into Lake Erie at Port Dover, Ontario, Port Dover.
Summary
The Lynn Valley Trail follows the river between Port D ...
and Nanticoke Creek.[
The region includes remnants of the ]Carolinian forest
The Carolinian forest refers to a life zone in eastern North America characterized primarily by the predominance of deciduous (broad-leaf) forest. The term "Carolinian", which is most commonly used in Canada, refers to the deciduous forests which ...
that once covered much of southern Ontario.[
]
Conservation areas
* Backus Heritage Conservation Area
*Deer Creek Conservation Area
A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer ...
* Haldimand Conservation Area
* Norfolk Conservation Area
* Waterford North Conservation Area
References
External links
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{{Ontario parks