From the Kawartha Highlands newsletter:

The Kawartha Highlands Signature Site sustains a rich array of special features. These include:

• large tracts of relatively undisturbed natural landscape having wilderness qualities and supporting large mammals with extensive home ranges;

• vast areas of open rock barrens;

• older forest stands, some with old-growth qualities;

• representation of the northern limit of paleozoic bedrock vegetation in this part of Ontario;

• high-quality bog and fen communities;

• sandy and peaty shoreline communities dominated by rare flora (Atlantic Coastal Plain species);

• concentrations of Species at Risk.

• a provincially significant alvar, a globally rare type of vegetation.

Above: White pine forests are an important feature of the Kawartha Signature Site. Right: The Five lined skink is Ontario's only lizard.

The legislation introduced on June 17, 2003 recognizes the unique nature of Kawartha, an area that includes more than 2,000 cottages, 65 hunt camps and a long history of recreational use, while also putting the protection of the new park’s ecological integrity first and foremost. The legislation’s commitment to protecting ecological integrity through management planning is a major step forward for park protection in Ontario.
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Highlights of the legislation:

• In the purpose section of the proposed legislation, protecting ecological integrity is given overriding priority in the management and administration of the park. This makes this legislation the first in Ontario to set ecological integrity as the prime mandate for managing a protected area and sets a great example for what should be done to reform our outdated Parks Act.
  
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• The proposed legislation prohibits industrial activity – commercial logging, mining and hydro-electric development -- within the park. (These uses are permitted under the Parks Act.)
  
  
• The proposed legislation prohibits any further building of roads and trails (except if they are intended solely for park management purposes and except for two new public access points for the new park). Ongoing ad hoc trail and road building has been a big problem in Kawartha, where ATV and 4x4 use has been exploding.
  
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• Recreational ATV use is strictly limited to accessing park facilities (i.e. driving to parking lots or park gates).
  
  
• Dedicated funds have been allocated for the establishment and management of the new park -- another precedent that should be followed for other new protected areas.

The Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park will be the largest protected area in Ontario south of Algonquin. But its geographic location on the northern edge of the developed southern Ontario landscape also means that it has a long history of human use. These circumstances required the site-specific accommodation of existing users in order for the area to move toward protection. The result is conditions that balance some recreational and other uses with the overall objective of ecological protection.

1. Hunters can use ATVs and snowmobiles on all approved and mapped existing roads and trails in the park. However, hunting will be addressed in the park management planning process, which may result in the designation of some “no hunting” zones. The impacts of hunting can also be considered through ongoing monitoring of the park’s ecological health.

2. Cottagers and camp owners can use ATVs and snowmobiles to access their properties. Access routes can be altered if they threaten ecological integrity and owners and guests will require access permits.

3. Anglers can use snowmobiles on all water bodies in the park for ice fishing in winter.

Overall, we believe the new Kawartha legislation will give park managers the tools they need to properly control use of the area and to protect its sensitive environment. While the legislation contains some compromises, it is a significant improvement from the Recreation Reserve Act.