TREPA owns the C. R. K. Allen Nature Reserve at the north end of Gilfillan Lake near East Quinan.\u00a0 The Reserve includes a diversity of threatened Atlantic coastal plains flora, including a major plantation of the Plymouth Gentian along the lake shore.<\/p>\n
The public is welcome to visit the reserve, but not on motorized transport, and to take only pictures and leave only footprints.<\/p>\n
Here is President Margrit Robinson’s report\u00a0from a visit she and her husband, Leslie, made this June 22:<\/p>\n
On June 22, 2011 Leslie and I visited the CRK Allen Nature Reserve.\u00a0 On the North side of the track to the reserve, on a tree, is a small plaque saying \u201cNature Conservancy, Natural Area, Owned and managed for conservation\u201d, a 1-800 number and their website.<\/p>\n
The monument is standing and in good condition.\u00a0 There were fresh ATV tracks and where there is a permanent, deep puddle, a new track has been made around the puddle.\u00a0 An elderly woman and a girl appeared on an ATV; they were delighted that \u201cthey have made a new path around the puddle\u201d.\u00a0 We talked to her, she was well aware of why the blocks were near the beach but did not seem to understand the bigger concept of conservation\/preservation.\u00a0 She mentioned that she has the pictures of the special flowers and took a photo of the woodfrog we spotted.\u00a0 She was friendly and invited us to visit her at the cottage on Gilfillen Lake.\u00a0 She mentioned that more driveways were gated now which would help to prevent people from riding through the brook.\u00a0 They then rode on the \u201cnew path\u201d to the bottom but not onto the spit.<\/p>\n
On the shore there were the usual 2 fire pits, a frying pan, a shoe, a burned tent, including fiberglass poles (from last year), fresh fish remnants and we picked up a small amount of garbage.<\/p>\n
There were tracks into the stream but no tracks around the spit or along the shore on the other side of the cement blocks.\u00a0 The water was quite high, too wet to walk along the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TREPA owns the C. R. K. Allen Nature Reserve at the north end of Gilfillan Lake near East Quinan.\u00a0 The Reserve includes a diversity of threatened Atlantic coastal plains flora, including a major plantation of the Plymouth Gentian along the … Continue reading