Thames Talbot Land Trust Creates New Nature Preserve

The Thames Talbot Land Trust is marking Earth Day this year with the creation of a new nature preserve. Tiedje Woods is a 15 acre forest near Hungry Hollow in North Middlesex that lies within the Ausable River Valley. Tiedje Woods is a gift from John and Dorothy Tiedje of Bright’s Grove. The Tiedjes are avid naturalists who have cared for the Woods for decades and now want to ensure that it is protected forever by entrusting it to the Thames Talbot Land Trust.

“If you love nature then you have to protect the land”, explains Don Gordon, Executive Director of the Trust, “I can’t think of a more enduring tribute to Earth Day than the gift of land, simply put nothing outlasts land”. Tiedje Woods becomes the seventh property protected by the Land Trust since it was established in 2000 and the second new property in 2009. The Thames Talbot Land Trust is a registered Canadian charity that protects land and waters of ecological and agricultural significance in Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford and Perth. More than three dozen volunteers and over 150 members make this volunteer organization a conservation success story. To learn more about the Trust and its properties please visit us at www.ttlt.ca . Together we are creating natural legacies.