Fowler Construction donates Sage Creek to Muskoka Conservancy

Fowler Construction has gifted sixty-seven hectares (166 acres) to Muskoka Conservancy. The land features the 1.6 kilometer stretch of beautiful Sage Creek where it tumbles through a mature forest valley and joins The Muskoka River North Branch. The gift of land includes over six hundred meters of frontage on Muskoka River.

Muskoka Conservancy’s technical volunteers, lead by the late Bill Dickinson, studied the property, and view it as an important natural area. Sage Creek is a cold-water stream featuring Brook Trout.

“The truth is, Fowler Construction is a large company that is focussed on heavy industry, often transforming landscapes,” says Scott Young, Muskoka Conservancy’s Executive Director. “Fowler did not have to gift this land to a nature conservancy, but the people at Fowler should be acknowledged for looking up from their development work long enough to recognize that nature is important—that nature is what makes Muskoka special. I’d like to thank Fowler for giving this land to Muskoka Conservancy to protect forever.”

The source of Sage Creek is Sage Lake in the Township of Lake of Bays. The creek meanders more than ten kilometers from east to west, collecting water from more than two thousand hectares of wetlands and small lakes along the way. Sage Creek’s Muskoka River confluence is located 1.5 kilometers down river from Duck Chutes, opposite from the Bracebridge Resource Management Center.

“We at Fowler are very proud to have arrived at this, the perfect solution for preserving the Sage Creek lands,” said James Gordon of Fowler Construction. “It became apparent to us that these lands were special, not only due to their spectacular appearance but also their environmental contribution. The Muskoka Conservancy is the ideal steward to keep this land, as nature intended, for future generations.”

For more information, please contact:

Scott Young, Muskoka Conservancy

(705) 645-7393 ext. 204

syoung@muskokaconservancy.ca