Trails

The Lake Clear Old Growth Forest is a little known nature preserve located near the intersection of Opeongo and Lake Clear roads. It is approximately 68 ha and is one of three such MNR recognized forests in the County, the Shaw Woods and Gilles Grove Nature Reserve (the site of Ontario's tallest Eastern White Pine) being the others.

This piece of Crown land has some steep slopes that have escaped logging so it was decided in the 1990s on the recommendation of Mark Stabb (now with Nature Conservancy of Canada) that the MNR designate it as an Old Growth Forest.

Unlike its two counterparts little is known about this Forest related to its boundaries, flora or fauna, consequently the Ottawa River Institute in partnership with the Pembroke Area Field Naturalists and the Lake Clear Conservancy launched an initiative in 2014 to begin learning more.

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Trail

Observations

The entrance area off of Lake Clear Rd is a an area with moist organic soil that's very conducive to grasses, ferns and sedges.

Black Seeded Rice Grass (regionally rare)

Bottlebrush Grass (regionally rare)

Broad Leafed Sedge (regionally rare)

Longstalk Sedge

Rosey Sedge

Necklace Sedge

Bebb's Sedge

Bladder Sedge

Knotesheath Sedge

Awlfruit Sedge

Graceful Sedge

Green Bulrush

Roughleaf Rice Grass

Maidenhair Fern;

Marginal Wood Fern

Ostrich Fern

Bulblet Fern