Conservation Covenant

A legally binding conservation covenant is held by Environment Canada and registered on the land titles for the ECA.  The covenant will ensure that Burns Bog is protected and managed effectively as a natural ecosystem.

• “Maintain in perpetuity a large, contiguous, undeveloped natural area for the purpose of protecting the flora and fauna that depend on the Bog;
• Manage the Bog as a functional raised bog ecosystem as understood by the best science of the time;
• Maintain the extent and integrity of the water mound and the peat that encloses it, and in particular the upper porous acrotelm, upon which the persistence of the ecosystem depends; and
• Prevent any occupation or use of the Bog that will impair or interfere with the current state of the Bog or the natural, scientific, environmental, wildlife or plant values relating to the Bog."

The conservation covenant shall be perpetual to reflect the public interest in the protection, preservation, conservation, maintenance and enhancement of the natural state of the bog for ecological and environmental reasons.  The Burns Bog Ecosystem Review from the year 2000 is considered to be the baseline against which any changes in the bog ecosystem will be measured, while taking into account the natural succession processes that may occur over time.  The introduction of invasive or exotic species is not considered to be part of the natural succession process.

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