Burnt Lands alvar

The Burnt Lands is an alvar between Almonte and Ottawa near Upper Huntley, Ontario, Canada.

A smaller parcel of several hundred hectares is protected within the Burnt Lands Provincial Park (Nature Reserve).

[9] Some of the distinctive plants found here include Cooper's milk vetch[10] and Ram's-Head Ladyslipper.

The alvar is thought to have existed in some form since the end of the last ice age, since it has globally rare snails (Vertigo hannai) and even a kind of carabid beetle found nowhere else in the world.

[13] A fire in 1999 removed some of the encroaching forest and produced open meadows, which, in 2008 had nearly twice the number of plant species as in adjoining unburned areas.