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Vegetation / Geographic Patterns / Map / Pictures
Brock Township is part of the Mixed Plains Ecozone. This ecozone consists of natural vegetation that is 12.8% mixed wood, 2.1% deciduous and 0.2% coniferous trees. The natural vegetation of Brock includes closed coniferous stands of largely white and black spruce, balsam fir, and to the south a wider distribution of broad leaf trees, such as white birch, and needle-leaf trees like white and red jack pine.
The third generation forests are decorated with vibrant wild flowers and shrubs. Trilliums, clover, black eyed Susan’s, goldenrod and wild raspberry are the most common. Broad rolling landscape, numerous wetlands and glacial deposits are typical of the landscape in Brock Township.
Very little of the original forest remains today. Centuries of agriculture, logging and urbanization, fragmented the landscape into isolated pockets of forest. In Brock Township, many of these pockets are now farms, woodlots, urban forests, or protected areas.
The natural vegetation of Brock Township is illustrated on the accompanying map, and defined below. Please view the map to get an impression of the geographic patterns of natural vegetation in Brock Township. This map portrays only the largest of forests and woodlots, many smaller lots are not included on the map but can be seen on the 1:50,000 Beaverton Topographic Map (31D/7).
Mixed Forest / Fragmented woodlots / Natural Vegetation Corridors
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A mixed forest is a combination of hardwood and softwood trees. These forest are found throughout the township but most abundantly in the northern part of Brock.
(wetlands/forest along waterways)
Natural vegetation corridors are wetlands (swamps, bogs and flood plains) that are mostly located on a linear pattern along rivers. There are a few in Brock Township; along the Trent canal there is a vegetation corridor which is a protected area, and there is also a corridor along the Beaver river which is environmentally protected.
Fragmented woodlots are small forests, that have been left standing as it is unfit for farming or forests are being worked as woodlots used for family fire wood they are also used for wind screens for fields.
