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Ontario - Rice Lake Plains

In 1832, Catherine Parr Traill painted a picture with words when she described the prairie and savanna of the Rice Lake Plains as an azure sea, brilliant with the blues of wild lupines. Nearly two centuries later, less than 1 percent of this habitat that once covered central Canada and the United States remains. The blue lupines that lent such vibrancy to Parr Traill’s writings are now rare.

The Rice Lake Plains lie along the eastern flanks of the Oak Ridges Moraine, on highlands that rise above the north shore of Lake Ontario. In 2003, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the County of Northumberland, Ontario Parks, Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority, Lower Trent Conservation and the Wildlife Habitat/Wetland Habitat Fund partnered together to form the Rice Lake Plains Joint Initiative in an effort to protect and restore this globally rare habitat.