Category Archives: environment

Encouraging News Re Completion of the ROUGE NATIONAL PARK

With the Canadian National Election  dust settling it appears that the following statement contained in the Liberal Party election platform- ” We will also complete the necessary agreement with the Ontario Government to finalize the creation of the country’s first urban National Park, ROUGE NATIONAL PARK”– is bringing comfort to those many, many Rouge Park project supporters.

Also, Ontario Cabinet Minister, Brad Duguid, responsible for the transfer of provincial lands to fulfill a previously signed agreement with Parks Canada and the Federal Government said as soon as the (Federal) environment Minister is chosen the province will join an effort to turn the park, which the previous government created through legislation, into what it should be. ‘In the coming weeks we’ll be starting that work”. he said, according to the Scarbough Mirror.N4colours20151007_102414_s

LARRY’S HIKE ON THE ROUGE OCT 29

Rainy Woodland Hike

Rainy Woodland Hike

Beaver Still Hard At Work

Beaver Still Hard At Work

Lots of Water Everywhere

Lots of Water Everywhere

The Swollen Rouge

The Swollen Rouge

Beaver Still Hard at Work

JOIN THE ROUGE WATERFRONT CLEANUP, October 25th

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https://goo.gl/cwBLPs

Read about the great Rouge Fall Waterfront Cleanup by clicking above!

FALL SETS IN AT ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK

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Toronto Zoo has two new Pandas

The Toronto Zoo which is surrounded by the new ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK had two new additions to its Panda population:

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/first-panda-cubs-born-in-canada=at-toronto-zoo-200-1.2607126

ROUGE PARK ARTICLE in the ‘Bluffers Monitor’, by Pauline Browes

Browes Rouge National Urban Park – article for Guildwood Probus Club August 2015-1Rouge Pk Map

Paddling The Rouge, with Larry Noonan

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Noonan’s Stories From The Rouge

Old Man River...

http://www.insidetoronto.com/whatson-story/5837987-stories-from-rouge-park-from-a-small-jail-farm;-on-a-landfill-to-the-great-expanse-of-the-toronto-zo/

Sumac in Rouge Park-September

CLICK THIS   Noonan Red Pouch Gall

…by Larry Noonan

Interesting!

Some Events in the Rouge- Parks Canada

http://www.pc.gc.ca

Chipmunk