Category Archives: Pickering Greenspace

ALTONA FOREST STEWARDSHIP

Posted on March 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

Great work by this longstanding, hardworking committee…click below

http://durhamregion.com/news-story/7170990-altona-forest-stewardship-committee-to-embark-on-10-000-pickering-project/

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Altona Forest Steering Comittee

Posted on January 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

Check out this wonderful forest in Pickering. They have regular organized hikes, and other conservation activities.

http://www.altonaforest.org

Larry Noonan, Steering Committee Chair- larrynoonan@rogers.com

 

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RETIRED PARKS CANADA CEO SLAMS ONTARIO LIBERALS

Posted on November 23, 2016 | Leave a comment

READ THIS!

http://www.peterkent.ca/news/former-parks-canada-ceo-alan-latourelle-considers-rouge-national-urban-park-legislation-sound-and-the-behavior-of-the-ontario-liberal-unacceptable

(Check -view all updates -on the above site)

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Noonan’s Fall Hike- Wherever you look there is amazing colour!

Posted on October 20, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Governments finally announce land transfer…

Posted on June 29, 2016 | Leave a comment

…to the new Rouge National Urban Park by Province of Ontario to honour earlier agreement at last! Whoopie!

http://goo.gl/GOIaZu

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JOIN IN THE HIKES AT ‘THE ROUGE”

Posted on March 4, 2016 | Leave a comment

Check the first half of the March 2016 park hike schedules and plan to join in:

-Sat, Mar 5; Sun,Mar 6; Wed, Mar 9: Sat, Mar 12; Sun,Mar 13;, Mon, Mar 14; Tuesday, Mar 15

for info:  http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/cnpn-cnnp/rouge/default.aspx

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FEBRUARY ICE JAMS – Rouge National Urban Park

Posted on February 18, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Rouge National Urban Park Minister promises park completion…

Posted on February 18, 2016 | Leave a comment

Federal Canadian Minister of the Environment, Catharine McKenna, promises that Rouge National Urban Park will be completed; ” Looking forward to the completion of Rouge Park to protect its important ecosystems and its heritage values”…

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Hiking the Rouge, January 13th, 2016

Posted on January 14, 2016 | Leave a comment
Neither rain, nor sleet nor snow...

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow…

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood...

It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood…

They are a hardy bunch aren't they...

They are a hardy bunch aren’t they…photos by hike leader Larry Noonan

A ridge too far...

A ridge too far…

...a winter wonderland

…a winter wonderland

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Maxwell’s Mill-Rouge National Urban Park…

Posted on January 5, 2016 | Leave a comment

…part of the Park heritage that Park’s Canada wants to preserve… read this article from the Scarborough Mirror by Larry Noonan.

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/6214521-stories-from-rouge-park-the-ruins-of-maxwell-s-mill-can-still-be-seen-while-driving-along-twyn-rive/

 

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