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Financial contributions from local wilderness lovers were key to setting aside a huge, mountainous tract near Willisville and Whitefish Falls as conservation land.
“One of the tremendous positives out of this has been the people,” said Ted Cowan, treasurer with the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy, which finalized its acquisition of the 1,984-acre property last week.
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“The Sudbury-Manitoulin area has roughly one per cent of the province’s population, and more than 50 per cent of the total funds we had donated came from that one per cent.”
SHARE ON: The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy announced on Wednesday it had reached a deal for the purchase of the nearly 2,000 acre property which encompasses a portion of the Heaven’s Gate hiking trail. Logo provided by EBC.
A group devoted to land conservation in Ontario is one step closer to acquiring a huge piece of wilderness in the Willisville and Whitefish Falls area south of Espanola.
The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy announced on Wednesday it had reached a deal for the purchase of the nearly 2,000-acre property which encompasses a portion of the Heaven’s Gate hiking trail.
Conservancy treasurer, Ted Cowan, says they submitted their proposal last Tuesday for $1.65 million and it was accepted.
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