Denuding of Long Point and all within it's Ecosystem was complete by 1860. Great soil loss to the body of the sand spit was experienced. It is this realization that The Long Point Company took in 1866, when they halted logging after their purchase of most of Long Point. It is their vision we must thank for this wonderful Biosphere.

The benign impact of harvesting the thick and readily available ice off of the Inner Bay proved to be a lucrative and necessary asset to the local ecomomies.

Fire, though it can be started by natural causes, it is sometimes used as a tool to maintain a viable recreational industry. This activity creates a debate as to the impact on maintaining the biodiversity of the Long Point Biosphere.

Problems associated with the necessities of man are the number of birds killed during migration, when birds migrate at night they focus on light, which sometimes leads to their demise particularly in fog when they will collide with the lit building. In this case it happens to be the Long Point Lighthouse.

As this smoke stack grew on the horizon, which could be seen from the United States, it was the stark realization of change to ecosystem of Long Point Country. The development of the Ontario Hydro thermal plant sparked an industrial growth in the early 1970's that was unmatched anywhere in the world at that time.