Cold Creek Conservation Area | |
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Location | King Township, Ontario, Canada |
Nearest city | Bolton |
Coordinates | 43°54′50″N 79°41′58″W / 43.9138°N 79.6995°W [1] |
Area | 190 hectares (470 acres) |
Established | 1962 |
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Cold Creek Conservation Area, usually referred simply as Cold Creek, is an ecologically diverse protected Area of Natural and Scientific Interest in south-central Ontario, Canada. The 190-hectare (470-acre) conservation area was opened on 20 June 1962 by Wilf Spooner and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. [2] [3] It is located on the western end of King Township, overlapping the Oak Ridges Moraine. The Government of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources classifies the area as a provincially significant Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (Life Science) for its "provincially or regionally significant representative ecological features". [4] [5] The area was also a site classified for the International Biological Program. [6] The Life Science area, known as Cold Creek Swamp, [7] is composed of a swamp [8] and forest.
Cold Creek has hiking trails that cover the Oak Ridges Moraine and a boreal peat bog, among others. At least 110 species of birds have been observed at Cold Creek. [9] Nest boxes are distributed throughout the conservation area to house birds and bats.