Category Archives: Wild in the City

More Rouge Hike Photos From July 8th

Posted on July 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

Alfalfa

Ants herding Aphids

Chipmunk

Milkweed

False Solomons Seal

Staghorn Sumac

Painted Turtle

Crown Vetch

Stopping by for lunch

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

Tagged Chipmunk, painted turtle, Water Lilys

ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK TO EXPAND-PM

Posted on July 13, 2015 | Leave a comment

Rouge National Urban Park to expand, as announced by Prime Minister Harper on Saturday…read all about it in the attached Toronto Sun story…

http://torontosun.com/2015/07/11/rouge-national-urban-park-to-expand-harper

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

Tagged Prime Minister announces re Rouge Park

City of Toronto approves Rouge Draft Management Plan

Posted on July 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

CHECK THIS OUT!

Toronto Draft Management plan

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

Tagged City of Toronto Supports Rouge Park

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

Noonan’s Wednesday Hike in the Rouge

Posted on June 19, 2015 | Leave a comment

no 12 file for email for June 17

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

Some interesting flora during ROUGE DAYS at BOB HUNTER PARK

Posted on June 11, 2015 | Leave a comment

Anemone

Forget-Me-Nots

Wild Ginger

BH 4 zSpring flowering plants 8 Bob Hunter June 4

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Posted in conservation, environment, Nature Walks, Wild in the City

Tagged anenome, Bob Hunter Park, forget-me-not, wild ginger

Beare Wetlands, Rouge Park

Posted on June 10, 2015 | Leave a comment

Grey Tree Frog in an actual tree

G,rey Tree Frog, with fly hitching a ride

snapping turtle laying eggs beside trail

Tree Swallow

Sunset in Beare Wetlands- Photos by Larry Noonan

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

Tagged grey tree frog, snapping turtle, Tree Swallow

ONTARIO PICKS INDUSTRY OVER ENDANGERED & THREATENED SPECIES

Posted on June 2, 2015 | Leave a comment

In a recent court ruling a Divisional Court Judge supported the right of industry to kill or destroy habitat of rare and endangered species as long as it was done ‘with as little harm as possible’.

With this decision and the government’s regulation that basically negates the positive effects of the Endangered Species Act Ontario has joined the list of the worst nations in the world in terms of its interest in the protection and preservation of rare flora and fauna.

Let your feelings be known: rougenationalurbanparknow@gmail.com

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

Tagged Blanding's Turtle, Endangered Species Act, Woodland Caribou

Rouge Days in Rouge Park

Posted on May 29, 2015 | Leave a comment

http://rougedays.ca

-TRAIL WALKS LOCAL FOOD, HABITAT CREATION & MORE

-BOB HUNTER MEMORIAL PARK, June 4th, 6PM on…

HAVE FUN!

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

Tagged Bob Hunter Park, Rouge Days

Planning Review Commission/ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK

Posted on May 29, 2015 | Leave a comment

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

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

Tagged Canada's first urban national park, Hon David Crombie, Oak Ridges Moraine, Planning Review Commission, Rouge River, the Green Belt

Category Archives: Wild in the City

More Rouge Hike Photos From July 8th

ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK TO EXPAND-PM

City of Toronto approves Rouge Draft Management Plan

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

Noonan’s Wednesday Hike in the Rouge

Some interesting flora during ROUGE DAYS at BOB HUNTER PARK

Beare Wetlands, Rouge Park

ONTARIO PICKS INDUSTRY OVER ENDANGERED & THREATENED SPECIES

Rouge Days in Rouge Park

Planning Review Commission/ROUGE NATIONAL URBAN PARK

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