'Hole in the doughnut' filled with new Lake Huron land protection

'Hole in the doughnut' filled with new Lake Huron land protection

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has secured another piece of environmentally significant land along the Lake Huron shoreline, expanding a growing network of protected areas on the Saugeen Peninsula.The newly protected property at Baptist Harbour, near Tobermory, fills what conservationists describe as a key gap in an existing corridor of protected land.Acting program director Jacob Kloeze says the roughly 20-hectare parcel was surrounded by con…