Category Archives: environment

…involving endangered species, restoration of natural forests, wetlands and meadows, ecological monitoring, protection of archaic and cultural objects and sites, and controlling invasive species.

The programs include swamp restoration, fish and aquatic habitat enhancement, aquatic connectivity, soil erosion restoration, headwater wetland restoration…

…all good stuff!

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Posted in conservation, environment, Rouge National Urban Park, Wild in the City

Tagged habitat restoration, headwater wetland restoration, swamp restoration, wetland restoration

Another $26.8 million for Rouge National Urban Park…

Posted on August 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

The Canadian Government has committed an additional $26.8 million for the Rouge after announcing the transfer of an additional 5200 acres from the former Pickering airport lands. This is added to the already committed to $142 million federal government funds for the development of the new Rouge National Urban Park over the next 10 years.

All that is left to complete the planned park is for the Ontario Government to live up to their signed commitment to transfer those adjacent provincial lands to Parks Canada so that the entire new park system can be managed to the highest park and environmental standards that Parks Canada is famous world-wide for…

Protected, too, are those Class 1 agricultural lands found within the Park boundaries, these to be operated to the highest possible and practical standards.

Baltimore Checkerspot

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Posted in conservation, environment, Farmland, Hiking, Markham Greenspace, Nature Walks, Pickering Greenspace, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto greenspace, Wild in the City, Wildflowers

Tagged birds, fish, Turtles

New Map Showing Increase in Rouge National Park Boundary

Posted on July 30, 2015 | Leave a comment

Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, announced recently the addition of 5200 additional acres to be added on to the current park boundary outline.

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for a larger map view click http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/cnpn/rouge/new-neue-aspx

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Posted in conservation, environment, Farmland, Hiking, Markham Greenspace, Nature Walks, Pickering Greenspace, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto greenspace, Wild in the City

Early Peoples’ Activity in The Rouge Valley

Posted on July 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

There has been longstanding human activity in the Rouge Valley with 31 Archaic sites identified, 8 Initial Woodland Period burial sites and two National Historic Sites- ‘TORONTO CARRYING PLACE, connecting Lake Ontario with Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay; BEAD HILL, a historic Seneca village.

The area was early visited by Champlain, Pere Marquette and Joliet (who prepared a map in 1680 where the name Toronto first appeared) : around 1669 a Catholic mission was established at the mouth of the Rouge.

Many of the historic sites in the designated Rouge National Urban Park are now off limits as considerable protection is required against theft of artifacts and vandalism.

But great improvement and management of these assets will surely follow as the Rouge Park system gets into its stride.

Rouge National Urban Park is a great place to visit, to hike, to sightsee, to experience a significant degree of ‘wilderness’…

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Tagged Archaic activity in Rouge Park, Initial Woodland Era peoples, Rouge Park Burial sites, Toronto Carrying Place