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ing Waters Forest before the cut began is Adrian Williams . He studied the forest in part since it provided excellent habitat for the Grey-Tree Frog . Although 35 acres of the forest was cut , the 10 acres that remained until 2015 continued to provide habitat as was witnessed by Joyce Sankey of the Niagara Falls Nature Club . She also documented significant declines by documenting calls by monitoring at Oldfield Road . until the 10 acres was reduced to three in 2015 .
Being an old growth forested swamp the destroyed forest was perfect habitat for the Grey Tree Frog . To escape predators , it spends most of its life in the tops of trees , preferring giants , moving down just to breed in vernal pools . They love to hide in the rotten logs and tree cavities which are also characteristic of old growth forests . Ontario Nature notes that “ Treefrogs depend on forests . Therefore , habitat loss and degradation due to clear cutting , roads , agriculture and urbanization are the main threats to these frogs .” Currently the species is not threatened , but the problem of continuing habitat loss illustrates the point of the need to take action before a crisis , such as what has happened to the threatened Fowler ’ s Toad , develops .
What happened in late June of 1992 was documented in an article on July 11 , 1992 in the St . Catharines Standard by Doug Draper . He told me that what he found especially disturbing was the large numbers of colourful birds he saw dazed wandering around logging debris .
The article illustrates how all the powers needed to protect the entire Thundering Waters Forest , specifically wetland protection were available to government when the first assault took place in 1992 . The Ontario wetland evaluation policy was in place-the problem was that because of a few points caused by later identified species , such as the Black Gum and Blue-Spotted Salamander , the