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Eagle’s Summit Nature Reserve
Flesherton, ON
Bruce Trail Conservancy– 2025
50 hectares
Property Description
Located just south of Kimberley, ON, Eagle’s Summit Nature Reserve lies within a band of relatively undisturbed habitat stretching along the Niagara Escarpment slope. Adding 50 hectares of pristine wilderness to the Bruce Trail Conservancy’s conservation corridor, this sanctuary offers rich biodiversity and breathtaking vistas, while permanently securing 733 metres of Bruce Trail.
Eagle’s Summit Nature Reserve features dense tracts of Sugar Maple Forest, diverse meadows, iconic karst topography and two small, seasonal watercourses.
The lush interior forest supports a diverse range of wildlife including sensitive species such as Ovenbird, American Redstart, and Black and White Warbler. Emerging from the forest, the landscape opens to reveal iconic Escarpment ledge with sweeping views overlooking the Beaver Valley. If you’re lucky, you may just catch a glimpse of the majestic Bald Eagles soaring overhead.
Adjacent to the ledge, a large open meadow contains a mixture of wildflowers and grasses with Apple and Hawthorn trees growing in various densities amongst the lush forbs and grasses. BTC ecologists are excited to begin fieldwork on the property in anticipation of discovering at-risk species including Butternut, Eastern Wood-Pewee, and Wood Thrush.
The various features of Eagle’s Summit Nature Reserve play an integral role in climate change mitigation, actively sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere while purifying the air, protecting water quality and preventing soil erosion.
This nature reserve connects several large ecological corridors in the region, linking these natural areas to form a 1,000-hectare woodland including two Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI), the Beaver Valley East Slope Life Science ANSI just west of the property, and the Kimberley Creek Life Science ANSI to the north. Ecological corridors are important for a variety of species that move between habitats to breed, hunt and migrate, keeping them away from roads and other dangers.
Content and property pictures courtesy of Bruce Trail Conservancy.
