Parks Canada is inviting you to join the 7th Annual Rouge Frog Watch, April 28, May 26, June 23 in concert with the Metro Zoo. An interesting exercise visiting many of the wetlands in the Rouge watershed, gathering important information on the many and varied frog species.
Space is limited so act soon…
…for information contact rouge@pc.gc.ca
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Tagged annual frog count, metro zoo
Last fall an encouraging number of these hard-to-find turtles were observed in the Rouge Park site. Hikers and watchers are getting ready and hoping for even more sightings as the weather warms this spring.
Coyotes, foxes, birds-of-prey are already making their presence known and soon will several frog species and other marine life…
Posted in conservation, environment, Hiking, Markham Greenspace, Nature Walks, Toronto greenspace, Wild in the City
Tagged blanding turtles
On Frozen Pond
Beaver Dam
Signs of the coming spring, blackbird staking out territory, massive snow and ice melt, the feeling that something good is on the way!
NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE ROUGE…
A small but very active committee calling themselves Friends Of Rouge National Urban Park, which includes former government of Canada Cabinet Ministers, people who have been involved with Rouge Park Alliance, environmental activists, park users and hikers, have established this web site to help work toward the fulfillment of a long held dream to see the establishment of Canada’s first urban national park in the Rouge watershed in the Cities of Toronto and Markham, Ontario, Canada.
We expect third and final reading of Bill C-40, the act to create this park, to be read in the Senate in the next few weeks- then only Royal Assent is required for the park to become a reality in law.
Parks Canada has already assumed control of the Federally-owned lands associated with the park site. In the meantime there are still a few hurdles to jump in terms of the other lands required for the final assembly of the project. We are looking for people interested in this historic project who want to help, people from particularly but not limited to the former borough of Scarborough, the City of Markham and the Town of Pickering.
If you do want to be part of this historic environmentally-related project, or comment on it, send us an email to: rougenationalurbanparknow@gmail.com
Thank you from all of us…
This is not what is supposed to happen! Mrs Peter Bradshaw on a recent hike through the Rouge saw ducks being hunted during the beginning of the current spring nesting season.
This is one of the important reasons the new Rouge National Urban Park needs the protection that Parks Canada will bring!
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Tagged Poaching in Parks
A letter to the Toronto Star Editor from retired Parks Canada CAO, Celine Gaulin, Friday, March 20/15…
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Tagged National Parks
An interesting article in the Saturday, Mar 21/15 Globe & Mail…
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Tagged national park
To keep up with Parks Canada activities in the new Rouge National Urban Park check out their web site http://www.pc.gc.ca
Take a look at the draft Park plan available on that site…
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Friends of Rouge National Urban Park 