Beaver Meadow Wildlife Management Conservation Area

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Beaver Meadow Wildlife Management Conservation Area
Website: www.quinteconservation.ca
 

This area features a large wetland that harbours wood ducks, osprey and herons. Deciduous woods and a large plantation of wildlife shrubs on the property are excellent for songbirds.

Two short hiking trails branch off from the parking lot, each ending at a scenic observation platform overlooking the wetland.

Wild ginger, trilliums, baneberry, jack-in-the-pulpit and Indian-pipe are some of the wildflowers that may be found here, along with a mix of deciduous trees including white birch, American beech, black walnut, butternut, shagbark hickory and 6 species of maples.

When the property was set aside as a conservation area in the 1970s, a number of wildlife shrubs were planted in the fields beside the access road such as caragana, nannyberry, highbush cranberry, multiflora rose, dogwoods, sumacs and both Russian and autumn olives.
History

For a short, but intense period in the early 1900s Beaver Meadow existed as an experimental farm complex. G.W. McMullen was involved in growing celery and mushrooms, harvesting sugar turnips, producing maple syrup, raising chickens and manufacturing explosives.
Quinte Conservation acquired the property in 1970 to be managed for wildlife.

Directions

County Road 10 (Lake Street) from Picton south for 5 km, then right on County Road 11 for 1 km

 

Location(s)

Address: Beaver Meadow Wildlife Management Conservation Area
Picton, Ontario
Canada