Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) recently welcomed two new volunteers to the organization. Students Rylee Goerlitz and Katherine McEwan are KLT’s Conservation Data & GIS Technician team's newest volunteer members.Rylee and Katherine will use their GIS and data management skills to organize and incorporate spatial data into digital maps, perform some analysis, [...]
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Thank you for making 2022 a special year for the Kawartha Land Trust community. Your support ensured that an additional 500 acres of land in the Kawarthas is protected forever. KLT now protects over 5,250 acres of sensitive ecosystems and working land in our region. Throughout the year, your support meant that habitats [...]
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Kawartha Land Trust staff and volunteers learn Indigenous perspectives on conservation through four-part workshop with 4 Directions’ Gary PritchardThroughout October, Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) staff and over 45 volunteers participated in a learning journey to learn more about Indigenous science and conservation through a workshop series titled “All Our Relations: [...]
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KLT 20th Anniversary Series Marnie Clement, KLT Volunteer Just after Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) was created 20 years ago it became one of the founding members of Ontario Land Trust Alliance (OLTA). OLTA connects the land conservation community by sharing knowledge and best practices, reducing financial barriers to land conservation, promoting organizational excellence, sharing [...]
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Ralph McKim and Jean Garsonnin have witnessed the beauty of nature being renewed as landowners and stewards of their land on the Oak Ridges Moraine. They own 240-acres of land, known as the McKim-Garsonnin property, which they protected through a Conservation Easement Agreement (CEA) with Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) in 2011. [...]
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