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Copeland Forest Friends

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The Copeland Forest is a 4,400 acre Resource Management Area  in Simcoe County, Ontario,  Canada, owned by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests. The size, beauty, and unfettered use of the forest by a wide variety of recreational users inspired an initiative to conserve the natural integrity of the forest and facilitate compatible recreational use.

In October 2015 the Copeland Forest Friends Association formed a Non-Profit Corporation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the MNRF, and began offering memberships. The organization has been structured to ensure that all of the major recreational user groups are represented equally. There are many ways to join us including becoming a member, volunteering, making a donation, and signing up for our newsletter. We look forward to seeing you in the forest!

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5 days ago

Copeland Forest Friends
LET’S CELEBRATE a WINNING PARTNERSHIP:Severn Sound Environmental Assoc. (SSEA) and Copeland Friends’Garlic Mustard (GM) ProjectFor five years the Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA) has joined with teams in the Copeland Forest to remove and control the spread of Garlic Mustard (GM).This year when Patrick Jackson, Invasive Species Coordinator for SSEA, arrived with two McGill and Lakehead summer students at the 5 B’s upper trail, a massive shoutout of joy and relief rang out. After a record winter snowfall and shovelling roofs, then anunprecedented ice storm with ensuing chain sawing and cleanup, their youthful energy and outlook was especially welcome.Honestly Garlic Mustard was very slow to appear this spring. Did it react to the cold spring? Maybe it gave up after its record crop last year and our gigantic pulling effort?Who knows, but by late May and early June 2025 the invasive Garlic Mustard plants shot up enough to declare: 1) Patrick Brown, winner of the largest bunch of flowering GM plants pulled.2) SSEA summer staff\ students winners of filling the Purple Star compost bin with GM plants before they burst their seed pods, Preservation of Copeland’s exceptional diversity of native plants is a goal of the Garlic Mustard Project. Insects, birds, amphibians rely on their specific native host plants for food and shelter. When volunteers pull the Garlic Mustard plant out by the root, they prevent its root from creating a chemical wasteland in the soil.A small sample of the amphibian diversity we found while pulling GM one morning with SSEA:American Toad - Anaxyrus americanus Wood Frog - Lithobates sylvaticus We also had the Spring Peeper - Pseudacris crucifer. Too shy for the camera though. Red eft newt, our mascot, did not appear this year for any team. Birds, too many to list or see, but Patrick’s rendition of their songs helped us recognize them. Thank you all. The Forest would not be as vibrant without your help.Margaret KennedyCoordinator of the GM Project for the Copeland Forest FriendsPS: If you would like to learn more about the Copeland’s animals and plants, keep the Garlic Mustard Project in mind for next spring. ... See MoreSee Less

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Copeland Forest Friends

2 weeks ago

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Learn how to help with the biological inventory being conducted in the Copeland Forest.Tuesday June 17th (7PM) at Jarret Hall. ... See MoreSee Less

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