Short Hills Conservation Action Plan

(completed February 2010)

The Short Hills CAP covers approximately 20,000 ha (200 km2) along the southwest shore of Lake Ontario west of the Welland Canal and the City of St. Catharines east to include the Jordan Marsh, lower portions of the Twenty Mile Creek watershed, south to natural areas in the Pelham area. The Niagara Escarpment bisects the central portion of the CAP in an east-west orientation, and major stream systems (Twelve Mile, Fifteen Mile, Sixteen Mile, Eighteen Mile and Twenty Mile creeks) cross the CAP, emptying northward into Lake Ontario through lakefront marshes and ponds.