Municipal Stewardship by the Numbers

Here at the Stewardship Association of Municipalities we have been working hard on updating our maps of Management Units across the province. With the signing of agreements in Indian Bay and New-Wes-Valley, we’ve now reached over 41 000 acres (over 16 700 hectares) of protected wildlife habitat! Great things can be accomplished when we work together and we’re proud to have worked with so many of you in achieving this impressive result. We thought we’d share some other fun facts  that we discovered while mapping management areas this winter.

Limestone Barrens Species at Risk habitat in Port aux Choix 

• Average habitat area protected by a wetland Municipal Habitat Stewardship Agreement (there are 35): 1473 acres (596 hectares)

• Average habitat area protected by a Species at Risk Municipal Habitat Stewardship Agreement (there are 2): 17.4 acres (7 ha)

• Largest single Management Unit (MU) in the province: Goose River Bog in Happy Valley - Goose Bay, at 4295.5 acres (1738 ha)

• Largest single MU on the Island of Newfoundland: St. Georges River in Stephenville Crossing, at 3933 acres (1591.7 ha)

• Smallest single MU: MU D in Port au Choix (Species at Risk agreement for rare Limestone Barrens plants) at 1.4 acres (0.6 ha)

Management Unit in Wabush

•  Largest area protected by a single municipality: 5109.2 acres (2067 ha) in HV-GB (followed very closely by 5030 acres (2035 ha) in Wabush)

•  Smallest area protected by  a single municipality: 13 acres (5.3 ha) in Flower’s Cove (Species at Risk area for rare Limestone Barren habitat)

• There are currently 276 incorporated municipalities in the province; 37 (or 13.4%) have signed stewardship agreements and are SAM members.  

Mill Pond Management Unit, Whitbourne

• Most Management Units in a single municipality: Whitbourne (10)

• 1^st municipality: Whitbourne, 1993
• 37^th municipality: New-Wes-Valley, 2017
• 38^th municipality: To be determined!

If you ever have any questions or would like some updated maps of your stewardship areas, please don’t hesitate to contact samconservation@gmail.com – we are here to help.