Park holding public meeting Sept. 22

Point Pelee National Park is holding a public consultation meeting for those residents, partners, stakeholders, community groups, First Nations people and tourism groups to share their ideas.

The meeting will take place Thursday, September 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Roma Club, 19 Seacliff Drive in Leamington.

The meeting will be broken into two segments with the first segement from 7:00-7;45 including the Fire Management Plan, Integrated Vegetation Management Plan and Lake Erie Sand Spit Savannah Restoration Strategy.

Segement two, from 8:00 – 8:45 p.m. will be interactive discussion tables.

Park staff will be on hand at interactive discussion tables answering

questions, soliciting feedback, and presenting proposed activities,

methods, tools, and timing for restoration of the mosaic of Carolinian

Habitats including the strategy proposed for restoration of the savannah –

the habitat in most peril.

If you can't make it to the meeting, you can still participate. The consultation

newsletter and comment form are available on the park website at:

www.parkscanada.gc.ca/pointpelee. By e-mail or telephone request, or by

stopping by at any of our park offices – Visitor Centre, Administration, or

Park Entrance Gateway. Consultations close October 7, 2011.

For more information, please contact the park at 519-322-2365 ext. 0

Pelee.info@pc.gc.ca