KAGAWONG—Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association (MSIA) saw great volunteer support in planting trees at the Kagawong River restoration site last week.
“In total we had 26 volunteers stop by (August 30) to help us plant 108 native riparian plants at our two restoration sites on the Kagawong River,” Liam Campbell, environmental technologist with MSIA told The Expositor. “The plants included white pine, white cedar, white spruce, balsam fir, red-osier dogwood, pagoda dogwood, ninebark, nannyberry, bush honeysuckle, buttonbush, meadowsweet, American mountain ash, sand cherry, white birch, sugar maple and elderberry.”
Seija Deschenes, coordinator of MSIA explained, “we’re still doing work as part of Kagawong River restoration project and have a wide variety of trees species and shrubs to plant. And there is still work being carried out in the area.”
“The Kagawong 142 restoration site is just downstream from the old pedestrian bridge which is slated to be replaced and was a straightforward restoration of an eroding outer bank,” said Mr. Campbell. “The second site at the mouth of the river is the Kagawong 180 where the addition of instream structures and spawning material will provide more habitat closer to the mouth of the river for spawning fish such as salmon.”
“The Kagawong 180 restoration project will also have a viewing platform similar to the ones in Providence Bay that will be in place toward the end of this year,” added Mr. Campbell.
