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Wallace Hammond, a lifelong resident of the Port Dover area, has gifted 61.6 acres of property that has been in his family for several generations to the Long Point Basin Land Trust (LPBLT), in order to help protect wetlands from their steady decline.
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“We hear about the importance of wetland all the time, but they keep disappearing,” said Hammond in a media release.
Peter Carson, president of LPBLT, believes the donation of the property near the town of Port Dover fits well with the land trust, which aims to protect all forms of biodiversity.