Climate Change Update By Don Kerr, Member of WAG and WT Board of Directors The graph of global surface temperature (below) has a red line up the middle showing the 132-month running mean that takes out solar cycle variability and El Nino/El Nina warming and cooling cycles. It also shows the [...]
Protecting Local Natural Heritage from Development By George Powell, WAG member The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats in the Blue Mountain Watershed continues to present challenges for municipalities, planners and environmental scientists tasked with identifying areas that should be preserved for the long-term sustainability of the ecosystem. This is why [...]
Profile of Wendy Smeh, New WAG (Watershed Action Group) Member Originally from Georgetown, Wendy Smeh has called Collingwood home for the last 14 years. She lives here with her husband and two children, Sophia, 5, and Milan, 3. Wendy came to Collingwood to work as a student at the Ainley Group, [...]
DATE: Saturday, September 23RD TIME: 11:00AM - 4:00PM ADDRESS: 609830 12th Sideroad, Town Of the Blue Mountains (Just West of The Intersection of 6th St and Grey Rd 19 (Osler Bluff Rd)) SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (Silver Creek Stewardship Initiative Committee-Blue Mountain Watershed Trust) [...]
Update on Townline Creek By George Powell The water quality of Townline Creek has been monitored since 2007 through a Figure 1: The geomean of total phosphorus concentrations (mgl/L) from the six Nottawasaga Bay watercourses originating on the Niagara Escarpment in 2015. Geomeans from stations closest to watercourse mouth. [...]
Field Trip: Where are Those Quarries? Where is 26/27? What’s it All About? By Peter Tollefsen, WAG member It was a beautiful day of sunshine in early June when a number of Trust members gathered in the Walmart parking lot. There had been grumbling of late, “we don’t get out much” [...]
Once Again, ‘Feast in the Forest’ Pledged Proceeds to Watershed Trust for Silver Creek Stewardship Blanka Guyatt, member of Watershed Trust Boardand WAG, left, Rebecca Ferguson, project manager of our Silver Creek Stewardship Initiative, centre, and Duncan Bristow, WAG member, right, at the Watershed Trust display at Kolapore. On [...]
We Submitted Recommendations for Changes to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) By Don Kerr, Board and WAG member The Ontario government has issued discussion papers for the review of several planning documents. One of these is a review of the Growth Plan Act. On August 8, 2016, [...]
2016 ‘Fight the Phrag By George Powell, WAG member; photos: Paul Morgan This is the second year of attacking Phragmites along the Collingwood shoreline. This year we targeted the wetlands west of Sunset Point Park and east of Heritage Drive where Phragmites is making inroads into this unique and rare coastal wetland. [...]
We Won the Excellence Award! Photo: Duncan Bristow Last May 26, 2016, The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation received the Collingwood Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Not For Profit Organization Award. The Chamber Awards Ceremony was held in the Georgian Manor in Collingwood. It was exciting to be among many Collingwood [...]
