Branchton Forest

The Regional Municipality of Waterloo Community Fund Environmental Grant provided in 2020 for two phases of work in the Branchton Village Land Trust forest in Branchton, North Dumfries Township. The Grant was for $2500.00

The first phase involved remedial forestry work, largely to lay down dangerous trees. This first phase was conducted by Martin Forestry on May 19, 2020. This work consisted of cutting down two large trees that had damaged trunks and were dangerous to adjacent propertie...

Introduction

This short note is designed to inform the citizens of Branchton of the ongoing affairs of the Branchton Village Land Trust. Our major message is to remind folks that dumping in the forest and construction of any structure in the forest are not allowed. Trespassing is not permitted as the land trust does not carry liability insurance.

Short History

Starting in the early 1990s, a group of Branchton citizens raised the issue of the long-te...

St. George Lance, Thursday June 26, 1997

BRANCHTON — A special ceremony was recently held to dedicate a remnant of Carolinian forest to conservation.

Thanks to the foresight of the local community, a nine-acre (three-hectare) site in Branchton now known as Branchton Village Woods, has been preserved. The property was purchased in January by the Branchton Village Land Trust, composed of members of the local community.

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The Branchton Village Land Trust received a grant from The Region of Waterloo Environmental Stewardship Fund in 2015. The money was used to bring down dangerous, dead trees. After the ice storm of late 2014, there were many brokend and leaning trees in the forest. These created a danger to anyone in the forest. The grant enabled the Land Trust to hire a forestry company to cut down the trees. The wood was left on the ground to decompose naturally.

Message from the President

October 31, 2011

The objectives of the land trust are to ensure thepreservation of the land, forest, animal and plant life found within the nineacres of the forest lands. We also wanted to ensure the lands were nevercommercially logged. With the newly produced “Branchton Village Land TrustBotanical Report”, we now know just how significant this parcel of land is andare proud to have protected it during this time.

The Branchton Village Land Trust Website was launched September 5, 2011.

A. Background to Application

 

The village of Branchton is in the Township of North Dumfries in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The village is located in the southern portion of the county, very close the northern boundary of Brant County (Figure 1). West of the village is the large Branchton Swamp Forest, an area of upland and lowland forest extending from the village westward to the Grand River, a distance of 5 kilometres (Figure 2). This large, natural area is...