Elgin Greenway Conservation Action Plan

(completed March 2012)

The Elgin Greenway CAP (EGCAP) area extends across the central part of Lake Erie’s north coast (188,100 ha) encompassing all of Elgin County. The area is home to a remarkable diversity of flora and fauna, many of them “Carolinian”, at the northern edges of their ranges. The CAP includes parts of the Thames River, Otter Creek, Catfish Creek, Kettle Creek and watersheds. Forests are the dominant ecosystems in the area, but wetland and prairie habitats of high conservation value also occur.