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Smiling man and woman standing arm in arm with rainforest background.

"I wanted a creek. I wanted it at the top of a valley."

Bulldozer in front of old yellow house and banana plantation.

"We didn't know what we were doing. We just knew that we wanted to do something with the bush … and we had to preserve it,"
he said.

"It's a labour of love, and it's so rewarding,"
she said.

Black and white aerial image of banana plantation surrounded by rainforest.

"The upper Austinville area is unique in that there is so much activity and so much preserved land,"
he said.

A group of people cleaning up vegetation on roadside.

"It was the highlight of my life,"
he said.

Water running down a rainforest creek with rocks in it and surrounded by ferns.

"Heather and I, in our will, have tried to keep it in perpetuity, keep enough dollars for ongoing management,"
he said.
"Hopefully, there's someone in the family that'd be ideal, but if not, we'll find a landowner who will keep up the legacy."
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