Volunteers return part of Lot M to nature
Students build berms for nesting turtles at Lot M. Volunteers have worked this week to turn the former parking lot into a buffer zone around Spencer Creek.
Teams of volunteers worked to restore a former campus parking lot back to a natural area this week.
Student volunteers took to Lot M, on the west side of campus, Saturday, Oct. 4 to build berms for nesting turtles.
On Thursday, staff from Canon Canada and volunteers from the Hamilton Naturalists Club planted hundreds of native trees in the area.
The parking lot sits between Cootes Paradise and the Dundas Valley Conservation Area and is only 10 metres from the cold water Spencer Creek.
The project will turn a section of the lot into a natural buffer area around the creek and will leave a corridor for wildlife to cross from one habitat to the other.
Susan Dudley, a professor of biology at McMaster, will monitor the newly-naturalized area with the help of her field work class.
