To claim this cache you need to email me the answers to #1 #2 and #3.
1. How long is long point? and do you think it's getting bigger or smaller?
2. What 2 things help form the Sandspit?
3.What can you see that's being done to control the erosion of the sandspit?
When you submit your log, you you may upload a photo for #4.
4. (Optional) Photograph yourself with your GPS
Please follow by the earth cache guideline and practice CITO, If your bringing a pet Please keep them leashed and remain on the trails to avoid any damage to the native vegetation. Also be warned this is a high tick area, so make sure you check yourself over if your venturing on the trails
The Long Point site includes the Long Point Peninsula, Long Point Inner Bay and the Turkey Point and Big Creek marshes. Extending 32 km into Lake Erie, the Long Point Peninsula is the longest freshwater sandspit in the world. Built by deposits of sediment carried by southwesterly winds and shore currents -- a process that began more than 4,000 years ago and continues today. With an area of approximately 105,000 ha, it is constantly changing due to the continuous deposition and erosion of sediments through wind and wave erosion. The peninsula itself is a series of alternating ridges that are separated by ponds and swales. These wetlands and associated sand dunes are the best remaining example of this type of ecosystem in the Great Lakes basin.
Protected from the prevailing south-westerly winds by the sandspit, extensive marshes have formed in its lee or northern side. The Inner Bay (approximately 28,000 ha) encompasses the open water from the Big Creek marshes in the west to an imaginary line drawn from Turkey Point to Pottahawk Point in the east. The northern and western shores are fringed by shallow marshes, with the extensive marshes of Turkey Point in the northeast corner and those of Long Point to the south and west. The moderating effect of Lake Erie, combined with the southern geographic location of Long Point, allows a number of plants and animals to survive here at the northern fringe of their North American range.
Habitats in the Long Point include woodlands, sand dunes, bluffs, marshes, ponds, meadows, beaches and lake shore. Recorded in the biosphere and the surrounding area are 1,384 species of plants, 370 species of birds, 102 species of fish, 46 species of mammals, 34 species of amphibians and reptiles, and 91 species of butterflies. The Long Point National Wildlife Area is 3,650 hectares in size and it makes up the core of the biosphere reserve. It is managed by the Canadian Wildlife Service, while other protected areas are managed by the provincial and regional governments.
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