‘STANDING UP FOR THE FRASERBURG ROAD TURTLES’ TOWN HALL TONIGHT IN BRACEBRIDGE

BRACEBRIDGE — A group of people who say they’re “opposing plans to remove 1,000 feet of natural, sandy riverbank terrain and replace it with concrete matting,” are holding a town hall meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bracebridge legion to protect turtles along the Fraserburg Road.

They’re calling it “Stand up for the Fraserburg Road turtles.”

They claim the “environmentally destructive proposal will eliminate a major habitat for three types of Ontario turtles: snapping turtles, painted turtles and endangered Blanding’s turtles. All three species nest along this riverbank and the habitat is critical for their hatchlings,” they say in a news release Friday Aug. 26.

“We are a group of committed citizens, businesses and volunteer organizations partnering with Small Change Fund, a national charity, to protect the turtles and their habitat along Fraserburg Road.

“We have provided years’ worth of data on the turtle nests to the province to demonstrate the importance of this location. We are also diligently spreading the word so that residents know about the threat to the turtles and the greater Muskoka ecosystem.”

The meeting is being chaired by group member Kathy Ristic and includes seven speakers: Jeff Hathaway – Scales Nature Park / START – turtle expert; Bob Dyment – local resident, lifetime protector of turtles; Collin Bryant, Dave Weud, Arthur Boers – Sherwood Forest Road residents; Laura Morton member of South Bracebridge Environmental Protection Group; and Michael Opara, Bracebridge mayoral candidate.

For more information visit www.savemuskokaturtle

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