Land Acquisition & Protection: Since our incorporation, our Property Inventory (acquired though purchase, lease, bequest and donation) has grown to over 2,800 acres of forest, marsh, sand dune, offshore island, river frontage and pond. We have helped private landowners voluntarily protect over 2,000 acres of their own lands under legal agreement, and have worked with the Government of Prince Edward Island to legally protect more than 12,000 acres of provincially-owned land.

Through the federal EcoGift program we continue to assit landowners to protect or convey their land and avoid being penalized with capital gains tax. 

Land stewardship continues forever once land is acquired, so management plans are drafted, updated and reviewed regularly.  Some lands need a great deal of management to restore them to a more natural state, others virtually nothing.

Habitat Restoration and Management: Because of PEI’s long history of human occupation, many of our natural areas have been disturbed in some way. Our habitat restoration work ranges from eliminating foot and vehicle paths through sensitive sand dune systems to large-scale forest management designed to accelerate the natural successional process, restoring woodlands to something resembling their pre-disturbance state. 

Sometimes management means removing vegetation, especially when invasive alien species have been found on a natural area.  These nasty invaders can destroy the very qualities that made the site worth protecting in the first palce.  We have removed Purple Loosestrife from DeRoche Pond, near Blooming Point and are watching for others at all natural areas such as Glossy Buckthorn, Japanese Knotweed and Norway Maple.

Education: Our educational efforts include conducting annual public workshops; production of free booklets and brochures on topics of local natural history; providing guest speakers for schools, community groups and the University of PEI; offering nature tours and school field trips; participating in local science and heritage fairs; and publishing our quarterly newsletter Update.

We work with Ducks Unlimited Canada to deliver the outdoor field trips for Project Web Foot on PEI.  Grade 4 children hunt for marsh monsters and use borrowed binoculars to help survey for red-winged black birds and more in a fun, 2 hour event.

Many of our fund rasing programs are educational as well - see the page on the Adopt-an-Eagle program.