Bucky Beaver's Bounty Traditional Cache
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Located in Beaver Meadow, Prince Edward County
Beaver Meadow is located on County Rd 11.
Drive down the trail until you come to the outhouse/parking area. You will have to park here and continue in on foot. Take the path in the NW corner of the parking lot. (Parking Lot not plowed in the winter!)
You will have to cross a small creek (there are rocks you can step on) and the cache is off the beaten path slightly so watch out for poison ivy, trilliums and lots of mosquitos!
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.
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
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