Oxbo

w Waub

uno

Dingman Cr.

Tham

es

Thames

McGregor Cr.

Fleming

Gentlemen Cr.

Pottersburg

Jeannettes

Battlehill

McFarlane Relief Dr.

Big Cr

.Til

bury

Cr.

Baptiste Cr.

Lock Dr.

Newbiggen Talbo

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Cr.

Sixteen Mile Cr.

Cr.

Cr.

Cr.

Cr.

River

Cr.

Cr.

River

ELGIN

LAMBTON

CHATHAM-KENT

ESSEX

Dutton

LondonKomoka

Sarnia

Newbury

Glencoe

Dresden

Wyoming Watford

Highgate

Bothwell

Ridgetown

Strathroy

Alvinston

St. Thomas

West Lorne

Coldstream

Thamesville

Chatham

Oil Springs

Mount BrydgesPetrolia

Wallaceburg

Tilbury

Blenheim

Leamington

Port Stanley

Big Cr.

Jeanettes Cr.

Thames 2Talbot Cr.

Mc Gregor Cr.

Thames 3

Rondue Bay

Lake Erie 1

Baptiste Cr.

Longwood

Lake Erie 3

North Marsh

Big Munday Cr.

Thames 2

Lake Erie 5

Thames 3

Fleming Creek

Thames 2

Mc Farlane Relief Dr.St Clair 1

Longwood

Big Munday Cr.

Lake Erie 4

Cruikshank

Gentleman Cr

Indian Cr.

Newbiggen Cr.

Lake Erie 4

Thames 1

Sharon Cr.

Sixteenmile Cr.

Battle Hill Cr.

Lake Erie 2

Lake Erie 2

Brock Creek

South Marsh Cr.

Morden Drain

Mc Gregor Cr.

Longwood

Map created by UTRCA, August 2007.Base mapping produced under license with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. © 2007.Forest information is based on information taken from the 1994 National Topographic System map sheets Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada with permission of Natural Resources Canada.

GREYSIMCOE

BRUCE

HURON

PERTH

ELGIN

YORKDURHAM

LAMBTONMIDDLESEX

ESSEX

PETERBOROUGH

PEEL

OXFORD

HASTINGS

NIAGARA

WELLINGTON

MUSKOKA

KAWARTHA LAKES

NORFOLK

BRANT

CHATHAM-KENT

DUFFERIN

HALIBURTON

WATERLOOHALTON

HALDIMAND

HAMILTON

NORTHUMBERLAND

TORONTO

PRINCE EDWARD

Lake Huron

Lake Ontario

Lake St. Clair

Lake ErieLegend

Municipal BoundariesThames Watershed & RegionSource Protection Region

Map Notes

MICHIGAN

LegendThames Watershed & RegionMunicipal BoundariesLTVCA SubwatershedsWoodland Cover

% Subwatershed Covered by Woodland< 55.1 - 11.811.9 - 18.718.8 - 25.6> 25.6

²0 6 12 18 243

kmGeorgian Bay

Lake Simcoe

Document Reference2.4.3 Woodland/Forest

The Thames Watershed & Regionlies within the transition zone ofthe Carolinian Life Zone orSouthern Mixed Deciduous Forestto the south, and the Lower GreatLakes - St. Lawrence Forest to thenorth.The diversity of plant species isextremely high. Common foresttrees include sugar maple,American beech, red oak,basswood and white ash. Lesscommon, southerly speciesinclude black walnut, butternut,black cherry and sycamore.This map illustrates thedistribution of woodlots across theLower Thames ValleyConservation Authority watershedand the percent forest cover bysubwatershed.The subwatersheds are colour-coded according to the range ofpercent forest cover they possess.The ranges (e.g. percentbreakdown) were taken fromWatershed Reporting: ImprovingPublic Access to Information(Conservation Ontario et al.2003).The area of forest cover wasdivided by the area of thesubwatershed to determinepercent forest cover.

Lake Erie

Lake St. Clair

St. Cl

air Ri

ver

Thames-Sydenhamand Region

Watercourse InformationDue to the complexity of theThames River watershedwatercourse network, only 3rdorder and greater watercoursesare shown.Watershed BoundariesWatershed boundaries shown arenot precisely defined. Theboundaries were originallycreated using watercourse andelevation information from1:50,000 N.T.S. mapping.

Watershed Characterization ReportThames Watershed & Region

(Upper Thames River & Lower Thames Valley Source Protection Areas)

Map 25bPercent Woodland Cover

(LTVCA)