Ruiter Valley Land Trust

The numerous biological inventories done in the Ruiter Valley, located in the Mansonville area, within the Appalachian Corridor, underline its importance as a prime example of our native hardwood forest, harboring hundreds of birds, mammals, reptiles and plants, including many threatened local species.

Research

RVLT maintains a database that monitors the presence of the Mountain Lion, Bobcat, Canada Lynx, Black Bear, Mink, River Otter, and Fisher in the Sutton, Salmon River and Potton sectors. Local volunteers trained on the Keeping Track Program, as citizen scientists gather data four times a year on these focal species; this data is invaluable in conservation planning and strategy.

RVLT have also sponsored the Botanical Blitz in conjunction with Quebec's Environment ministry, where a hundred botanists from all over Quebec inventoried the area for its indigenous flora.

Territory

Our main targeted area for protection is the Ruiter Valley watershed totaling approximately 10,000 acres. The RVLT's strategy focuses on protecting wilderness areas and unfragmented forests, summits and upper slopes (600 m and more), headwaters and smaller natural entities essential to the maintenance of the biodiversity of the region.

Inventories Research Territory Conservation Servitudes
		Conservation Servitudes This protected area is extended through servitudes from neighboring landowners, and through its proximity to the 290 acres of the Réserve Ecologique of the Ministry of Environment (MENV).
	Inventories The numerous biological inventories done in the Ruiter Valley, located in the Mansonville area, within the Appalachian Corridor, underline its importance as a prime example of our native hardwood forest, harboring hundreds of birds, mammals, reptiles and plants, including many threatened local species. Research RVLT maintains a database that monitors the presence of the Mountain Lion, Bobcat, Canada Lynx, Black Bear, Mink, River Otter, and Fisher in the Sutton, Salmon River and Potton sectors. Local volunteers trained on the Keeping Track Program, as citizen scientists gather data four times a year on these focal species; this data is invaluable in conservation planning and strategy. RVLT have also sponsored the Botanical Blitz in conjunction with Quebec's Environment ministry, where a hundred botanists from all over Quebec inventoried the area for its indigenous flora. Territory Our main targeted area for protection is the Ruiter Valley watershed totaling approximately 10,000 acres. The RVLT's strategy focuses on protecting wilderness areas and unfragmented forests, summits and upper slopes (600 m and more), headwaters and smaller natural entities essential to the maintenance of the biodiversity of the region.



			Black Bear and Stansje