Port au Choix Stewardship Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/28/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Stewardship is "the careful and responsible management of something entrusted in one's care".

Port au Choix signed a Municipal Species at Risk Stewardship Agreement in 2009. The agreement represents a formal public committment by the community and the province to act together to conserve and protect the Limestone Barrens within their jurisdiction. By signing a Municipal Species at Risk Stewardship Agreement, the town and residents become stewards of the habitat within the Stewardship Zone and commit to using a stewardship ethic in all decisions involving existing habitat to minimize and eliminate the effects of human activity on species at risk within the town.  

The Port au Choix Stewardship Zone was designed to contain Limestone Barrens areas within the town in which species at risk have been found as well as areas that have been identified by the Limestone Barrens Species at Risk Recovery Team as potential habitat for species at risk.  Limestone Barrens habitats of special significance within a Stewardship Zone which require added protection are designated as Managment Units.  Port au Choix has 4 Management Unit within its Stewardship Zone occupying a total area of 21.44 acres.

The Town of Port au Choix has been identified by the Limestone Barrens Species at Risk Recovery Team as having the most vulnerable population of the threatened Fernald's braya plant population in the world.  The main threat to the Fernald's braya and other Limestone Barrens plants is habitat destruction.  Besides for Fernald's braya, Wild Chives and Wooly Arnica are both rare Limestone Barrens plant species that are found in parts of Port au Choix.

The conservation of species at risk habitat depends not wholly on conservation plans or regulations but on the stewardship ethic of residents and visitors like yourself!

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