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Land Designation
Provincial Park
Landscape Description
Beaudry Provincial Park is located 10 km west
of Winnipeg on PR 241.
In 2004, Manitoba’s Parks and Natural Areas
Branch entered into an agreement with adjacent landowner Mr. Marcel
Tallieu to lease a parcel of land adjacent to Beaudry Provincial
Park. A 15 hectare parcel of rare river-bottom forest has now been
added to the park as a Backcountry Land Use Category.
Outstanding Features
Beaudry Provincial Park
is home to some of the largest basswood,
cottonwood and maple trees in the area. This diverse forest supports
a wide variety of plants and wildlife; ferns, wild grapevines,
white-tailed deer, fox, owls, beaver and muskrat are plentiful.
River-bottom forest growing along the
Assiniboine River provides essential corridors for the movement and
dispersal of wildlife in a region with large tracts of land used for
development and agriculture. Undeveloped and relatively undisturbed
river-bottom forest, such as that growing on the Taillieu property,
is rare. River-bottom forest communities and their inhabitants must
tolerate periodic flooding in order to survive.
The Taillieu property supports a variety of
terrace, floodplain and channel shelf forest communities. In turn,
these are dominated by bur oak, green ash, Manitoba maple, American
elm and willows. Spectacular, large basswoods and cottonwoods up to
30 m in height grow in several places throughout the property.
The lease
agreement provided for the adding of the Taillieu property to
Beaudry Provincial Park under the Provincial Parks Act to
enable management of the land as parkland. The lease has a term of
21 years with a renewal option and specifies that the river bottom
forest is to be used primarily for nature trails and related
facilities. The
existing rudimentary trail on the Taillieu property is being
upgraded to enable the extension of the existing year-round park
trail system further west enhancing opportunities for hiking and
cross-country skiing. The province also
worked with the R.M. of St. François Xavier, who supported
the initiative by closing the road allowance which separated the new
parcel from the existing park. |
