The Rural Lambton Stewardship Network, (RLSN) is working with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) and St. Clair Township to establish roadside prairies and wildlife shrub corridors along Highway 40 from Wallaceburg to Sarnia. This Prairie Passage will work as a living snow fence/buffer strip while creating a regionally significant wildlife corridor for butterflies, birds and small animals. This project will increase the natural beauty along this long stretch of road while creating a wildlife corridor, and decreasing the impacts of drifting snow and soil.

This project is modeled after two highly successful programs from the United States the “Prairie Passage Program” and the “Roads for Wildlife Program” that demonstrate the important role that roadsides can play in both Natural Heritage and Wildlife Management. In 2003, 22 acres of prairie and 26,000 wildlife shrubs were planted.

Highway corridor

Tallgrass Ontario

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