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Archive Record
Metadata
Item ID# |
A2014.003.0567 |
Title |
Kinghurst Forest ANSI |
Object Name |
Recording, Video |
Dates of Creation |
September 29, 1991 |
Creator |
Grey, Bob |
Description |
This videotape was labelled "Kinghurst Forest ANSI" using masking tape. The first 13 minutes and 8 seconds are related to "Kinghurst Forest ANSI", the rest of the tape contains items recorded from television, not intended for donation to BCM&CC. This video features Bob Grey, Ecologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Owen Sound office, speaking in September 1991 about the Kinghurst Forest Area of Natural and Scientific Interest then owned by Howard Krug. Detailed Content Description: 00:04 [no title] Bob Grey stands at a roadside, forest in background. Superimposed date reads "Sep 29, 1991". He says, "I'm standing at the second [ ], Sullivan Township, in front of lot 27", owned by Howard Krug and called the Kinghurst Forest Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI). The video is aimed at giving an understanding of the Kinghurst ANSI. 01:00 Forest scene. Description of the ANSI. Drainage basin. Trees. Kettle depressions. 02:00 Site number one. Mixed forest. White cedar. 02:45 Site two, a tree bog. Drowned white cedar. 03:40 Grass mat. Pitcher plant. Aquatic plant. 04:14 Site three. Former kettle, filled with matted vegetation. 05:14 Pitcher plant; sphagnum moss. 05:55 Leatherleaf shrub. Black spruce trees. Fen. 06:11 Site four, southeastern corner of the fen. Mixed forest. 06:50 Royal fern. Gold thread. 07:26 Site five. Upland hardwood forest. Sugar maple of 30 inches diameter, about 250 years old. Pan up the tree, about 100 feet high. 08:35 Sugar maple understory. Many large trees. "The largest known forest in Grey and Bruce counties in terms of the size of the trees found in it." 09:33 Large American beech, 32 inches diameter. 10:15 Forest floor; maidenhead fern; wild ginger; wood ferns. 11:11 Kettle, a hole in the forest floor with no water in it. 11:54 Two provincially-rare plant species: hart's tongue fern and American ginseng. 12:04 Dead sugar maple with pileated woodpecker holes. 12:35 Bob Grey concludes. Several different plant communities. Mature upland deciduous forest on rolling hill moraine. |
Admin/Biographical History |
Around 1900 the Krug family bought 600 acres of standing hardwood near Kinghurst, on concessions 4 and 5 of Sullivan Township, Grey County. They had intended to log the tract, but later committed to a selective cut leaving about 75% of the mature timber standing. In early 1997, Howard Krug made a bequest of 242 hectares of Kinghurst Forest to Federation of Ontario Naturalists a.,.a. Ontario Nature as a nature reserve for Ontarians. At that time, Ontario Nature also purchased 39 hectares of old pasture and swamp land connected to the bequest. When Howard's brother Bruce Krug passed away in May 2013, he left a legacy gift of a 61-hectare expansion and a stewardship endowment to help manage the property in perpetuity. Sources: Krug, Howard. "A Century of Excellence: Krug Bros. & Co. Furniture Manufacturers." Ed. Ruth Cathcart. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc., 2001. Ontario Nature. "Kinghurst Forest Reserve." https://ontarionature.org/programs/nature-reserves/kinghurst-forest/. Accessed June 9, 2022. |
System of arrangement |
This item is part of the Krug family fonds, series 1 (Krug Bros. Co.), subseries 5 (Forest Management), file 2 (Woodlots). |
Parent Object |
Krug series 1, ss 5, f 2 |
Level of Description |
Item |
Physical Description |
1 videocassette (3 hr., 37 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour ; 13 mm (VHS) [13 min., 8 sec. are related to Kinghurst Forest Ansi] [Videocassette was digitized in December 2020: 1 video recording (3 hr., 37 min., 13 sec.) ; mov (101 GB) 1 video recording (3 hr., 37 min., 13 sec.) ; (20.53 GB)] |
Restrictions on Use |
Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any permissible use rests exclusively with the user. |
Places |
Kinghurst Nature Reserve Sullivan Township |
People |
Grey, Bob |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Conservation of natural resources Geology Plants |
Related Units of Description |
Bruce Krug's diary [Bruce County Archives] for Nov. 25, 1991 reads: "Jim Siegrist played on his TV the two videotapes which Bruce and Howard had brought: "Cutting of ribbon and opening ceremony of Krug Furniture exhibit at Bruce County Museum, 'Built to last' "; "videotape that Bob Grey, ecologist with MNR of Owen Sound, had made last September of the Krug forest tract, the Kinghurst tract, with his pictures being taken in from the 4th Con. of Sullivan Tp." [Relating to A2014.003.0567 and A2014.003.0568] |