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sault on Garner Road resulted in the strengthening of the Niagara Regional Tree by-law , which emerged in 1992 as a result of the first assault on the Thundering Waters Forest . Through an OMB hearing process , most of this forest was subsequently rescued from destruction and is now a City of Niagara Falls Park . ( note that here however , the city has refused requests to fences built to protect this natural forest park from neighbouring residents dumping trash in it )
To understand the magnitude of the assault on the Thundering Waters Forest , it is helpful to put it in the context of other recommended Environmentally Sensitive Areas , ESAs , identified in the Brady report of 1980 . ( known by the name of its editor , Rick Brady , the report was produced jointly by Brock University and the Niagara Region ) The Thundering Waters Forest is unfortunately , unique in terms of a candidate ESA being assaulted by deforestation . There are only two other candidate ESA areas that have experienced this sort of destruction .
Before the 1980 Brady report was published there was a candidate ESA site in Port Colborne known as Bacon ’ s Bush that was deforested . Afterwards , there was a small identified area in Niagara on the Lake , known as Zuk ’ s Zone , ( containing rare Paw Paw trees ) which was heavily damaged by a single house and access road . ( the approval process that led to this disaster , is a mystery , perhaps indicating that there was a historic lot of record )
While there are problems such as invasive species and the emerald ash bore , all of the forested areas of ESAs identified in the Brady report are essentially bigger and better than they were in 1980 . The exception is the area that the study identified as the Ramsey Road Woodlot , which is now understood as the Thundering Waters Forest .
The person who is most familiar with the Thunder-