Category Archives: environment

Noonan’s Hike in Woodland Park in the Rouge June 1st

Posted on July 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Comfrey

St John’s Wort

Staghorn Sumac Flowers

Milkweed

Oxeye

Night Shade Bittersweet

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

Tagged Wldflowers i Rouge Nation Park

Parks Canada Change at the Top

Posted on July 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

Parks Canada and Rouge National Urban Park is losing its dedicated CEO with the retirement of Alan Latourelle, and great friend of the Rouge.

Daniel Watson is taking on the job of CEO, PARKS CANADA AGENCY, and we look forward to working with him as we move ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK to its more complete configuration.

Good luck in your retirement after 32 years of distinguished service and commitment, Alan, and thanks for being a great friend of Rouge Park.

Sunset in Beare Wetlands

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Posted in conservation, environment, Hiking, Markham Greenspace, Nature Walks, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto greenspace

Tagged Alan Latourelle, New CEO for PARKS CANADA

Wednesday’s Hike in Rouge Park

Posted on June 25, 2015 | Leave a comment

Baltimore Checkerspot Female

Baltimore Checkerspot Mating

Baltimore Checkerspot

Dragonflies doing their thing

Angelica

Cow Parsnip

Milkweed

Beetle on a Daisy

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Posted in conservation, environment, Hiking, Nature Walks, Rouge National Urban Park

Tagged butterfly, daisy, Dragonfly, milkweed

Grey Tree Frog in the Rouge

Posted on June 22, 2015 | Leave a comment

Grey Tree frog sitting on a ‘frog sound recorder’.

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Posted in conservation, environment, frogs, Rouge National Urban Park

Tagged grey tree frog

Noonan’s Wednesday Hike in the Rouge

Posted on June 19, 2015 | Leave a comment

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Comfrey

Night Shade Bittersweet

Purple Flowering Raspberry

Bullet Fern

Iris

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Metalic Green Bees

Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Teasel

Wild Rose

Red Clover

Join Larry Noonan and his weekly crew each Wednesday for a stimulating hike through the wilds of Toronto and Markham- it really is wild. larrynoonan@rogers.com

Click on the copy bar at top for a full description of flowers, etc., encountered this week.

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Posted in conservation, environment, Farmland, Hiking, Markham Greenspace, Nature Walks, Toronto greenspace, Wild in the City, Wildflowers

Tagged Bullet Fern, Comfrey, Iris, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Metalic Green Bees, Morning Cloak Butterfly, Night Shade Bittersweet, Purple Flowering Raspberry, Red Clover, Teasel, Wild Rose

Supporting the Completion of Rouge National Urban Park

Posted on June 18, 2015 | Leave a comment

Controversy still surrounds the continued unwillingness of the Ontario Provincial Government to honour its commitment to transfer the Ontario-owned Rouge Park lands to the Parks Canada Rouge National Urban Park program.

It is an absolute that environmental protection under Parks Canada is and will be far superior to anything the province is able or prepared to do (essentially nothing at this point-in-time).

Parks Canada has a world-wide reputation for public lands protection and many other jurisdictions use Parks Canada standards as a benchmark for their own!

The lands already formally part of Rouge National Urban Park are already being re-habilitated, and protected from poaching, vandalism and other misuses. And the Class 1 farmlands within the Park boundaries are guaranteed protection from development and other undesirable purposes. These will continue to be farmlands!

We should all ask our Provincial representative why is the Province stalling on honouring its commitment…or call Premier Wynne to ask her directly…416-325-1941, or kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org

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Posted in conservation, environment, Farmland, Markham Greenspace, Poaching, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto greenspace

Tagged protecting farmland