BLUE MOUNTAIN WATERSHED TRUST FOUNDATION Annual General Meeting of Members When: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Where: Craigleith Community Centre 132 Lakeshore Road East The Blue Mountains ON L9Y 0N2 Agenda: 4:00 PM - Social hour: join us for sandwiches, wine and cheese 5:00 PM - Annual General Meeting including a recap of the Trust’s activities this year [...]
Watershed Trust staff will be live on the air at 95.1 The Peak at 9:00am, Wednesday October 17th. First Movie Night, 5pm & 7:30pm October 17th: Metamorphosis *** Proceeds benefit the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust *** Learn more about the Watershed Trust's involvement in the socially and environmentally conscious Be The [...]
When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, October 17th Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: Metamorphosis Billed as ‘a poem for the planet’, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Be The Change Film Series – year 11! Bringing youth into the picture in longstanding socially conscious film series- Movie Night, October 17th: Metamorphosis As the socially and environmentally conscious Be The Change Film Series enters its second decade, it turns its attention to local youth. Young volunteers [...]
On page 44 of the September 2018 issue of Georgian Life: Fighting an Aggressive invasive plant. Georgian Bay Life, September 2018, p. 44
Response from George Powell, Vice Chair Watershed Action Group to the Globe & Mail article: Canada to phase out most uses of pesticides linked to bee deaths by Eric Atkins published August 15, 2018 August 15, 2018 Dear Editor: Re: Canada to Restrict Use of Two Pesticides Article by Eric Atkins in Thursday’s [...]
Help us fight an aggressive invasive plant in Collingwood & Blue Mountains 2 August 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Collingwood, ON – On August 18th the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust will be going head-to-head with Phragmites Australis, an invasive grass that grows so thick that turtles become trapped and die. "It’s an extremely [...]
DATE: Saturday, August 18th 2018 TIME: Morning session 8:00 – 11:00, Lunch 11:30 – 1:00, Afternoon session 1:00 – 4:30 LOCATION: West Collingwood Shoreline (map to come) Phragmites is an invasive plant that poses a serious threat to our local environment. It has invaded our beaches and our wetlands. If left [...]
Read Miriam King's article on CollingwoodToday.ca: Phragmites on the loose across Simcoe County
31 Grade 5 & 6 Students Partnership with NVCA Funded by Ontario Trillium Grant Focus: Biodiversity, animals plants What is a watershed? What is biodiversity/ an ecosystem and why do we care? My Silver Creek handout Endangered Species PowerPoint Endangered Species outdoor game
