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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
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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
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
…when Glen Eagles was saved from condo developers…
By Larry Noonan
Posted in conservation, Markham Greenspace, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto greenspace
Tagged glen eagles
-TRAIL WALKS LOCAL FOOD, HABITAT CREATION & MORE
-BOB HUNTER MEMORIAL PARK, June 4th, 6PM on…
HAVE FUN!
Friends of the ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK, represented by the Hon. Peter Kent, the Hon. Pauline Browes and Toronto Deputy-Mayor Glen DeBaermaeker met with the new ONTARIO PLANNING REVIEW COMMISSION, Chaired by the Hon David Crombie, and presented the following points to the Commission:
-Urging the Commission to support the concept of the Rouge National Urban Park (i.e. Bill C40)
-Encouraging the Commission to push the Ontario Government to honour their promise to transfer the Provincial lands that were previously agreed upon to the new park
-Asking the Commission to support the inclusion into the Park of all remaining adjacent Federal lands
-Requesting the Commission to support the protection of the natural National Historic features from the Oak Ridges Moraine to the mouth of the Rouge River
-Asking the Commission to support the development of an extensive trail network connecting the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Green Belt and Lake Ontario
The Commision is scheduled to report in September of this year.
In the meantime, you can help by contacting the Ontario Planning Review Commission, indicating your support!
katherine.morton@ontario.com
416-325-7370
Dames Rocket
Bareberry
Cattail, or Bullrush if you prefer
Cow Parsnip
Mustard Hedge
Sensitive Fern
Smooth Sumac
Stinging Nettle
Touch Me Not
Noonan script zSpring flowering plants6 Venice of the North trail
Ostrich Fern
Angelica
http://www.wildlandsleague.org/paddle-the-rouge
JUNE 13, Paddle the Rouge! One of Toronto’s great rivers…
…click above for details.
John
Marsh
Dryad Saddle Fungus
May Apple Flower
Oriole in Cottonwood
Painted Turtles
Pond View
River Cliff
Nannyberry
Wild Asparagus
Red Banebury
Columbine
Wild Cucumber
Wild Geranium
Miterwort
LN zSpring flowering plants5 Orchard Vista (1)
A group representing the Friends of Rouge National Urban Park are scheduled to meet the Hon. David Crombie of the Ontario Growth Secretariat to discuss the new National Urban Park issues on May 21, 2015.
Friends of Rouge National Urban Park 