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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2013-06-13, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013. It would seem that the Brussels/Seaforth episode of the web series Rediscovering Canada was a success after over 1.8 million views were logged in the week it was active. Huron East Economic Development Officer Jan Hawley told councillors at their June 4 meeting that the episode did quite well by the hosting website’s standards, as it was only up for seven days before it was displaced by the next week’s episode. Hawley told councillors that people from all over the world had viewed the episode, although the vast majority of views came from within Canada. She also debuted a 10-minute tourism video for municipalities within Huron East, such as Walton, Brussels and Seaforth. The video included interviews with Walton Motocross founder Chris Lee and Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan and included a spotlight on the municipality’s manufacturing sector, the Huron Good Food Box, the Brussels Farmers’ Market, Healthkick and the Gateway Rural Health Research Institute. Hawley said she was very proud of the video, produced by Rediscovering Canada’s Chris Cooper. The video should be posted on the municipality’s website at www.huroneast.com later this week. The Saratoga Swamp has long been recognized as an important forested wetland. The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) began acquiring sections of swamp in the 1960s with the purchase of two properties, totalling 365 acres. With the recent purchase of an additional 50 acres from Mrs. Frances Schilbe, the MVCA now owns and manages over 1,300 acres of the swamp. The Conservation Authority has identified the new parcel of land as the Watson Tract, in recognition of Mrs. Schilbe’s family, the Watsons, who settled this area in the 1840s. In a ceremony the MVCA thanked Mrs. Schilbe and her family for their stewardship of the property over many years. The MVCA will continue to manage the property in the same way. The property will be protected as an environmentally- sensitive area and there will be no development on the site. The Saratoga Swamp is classified as a provincially-significant wetland and is important because: • it helps to ensure a stable, long- term supply of groundwater by contributing to recharge and discharge • it improves and maintains water quality • it is the largest forested area in the Maitland watershed and provides extremely important fish, amphibian, bird and wildlife habitat. The swamp is home to several species at risk. The swamp has a large area of forest interior; wooded areas that are 100 metres from the forest edge, roads or permanent structures. Forest interior is important for some wildlife species that require sheltered, undisturbed areas for successful breeding. As you move into a woodlot, away from the forest edge, the more stable the environment becomes • the area plays a role in reducing the impacts of climate change. Forests help to stabilize our climate by taking carbon out of the air and storing it in wood. The area needs significantly more forest cover across the watershed to help reduce the impacts of climate change. Brussels episodeviewed nearly two million times in just one week Watson Tract declared provincially significant Dedication service The Saratoga Swamp, which has long been recognized as an important forested wetland, was honoured and renamed in a ceremony on Saturday to the Watson Tract to recognize early settlers on the land. 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