Meeting with Dr. Krushelnicki about OMB Reform By Don Kerr, Director, and member of WAG Committee Dr. Bruce Krushelnicki is the new Executive Chair of Environment & Land Tribunals Ontario (ELTO) that includes responsibility for the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). A few of us from the WAG committee met with him [...]
Profile: Rebecca Ferguson, Program Manager of our Stewardship Initiative By Carl Michener, Director and Chair of Communications Committee In late 2015 the Watershed Trust applied for and won a Trillium Grant for a stewardship program aimed at protecting and preserving Silver Creek, an important cold water trout/salmon stream. We are off [...]
Georgian Bay Primordial – Harmony in Nature By Blanka Guyatt, Director and WAG Committee Member It was an honour for Watershed Trust to have been invited by Sue Miller to participate in the opening of the art exhibition she curated at the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts. The exhibit ran [...]
Sideroad 26/27: NEC History, Policy and Politics By Don Avery, member of Watershed Trust Board and WAG Committee Purpose of the Escarpment Natural Area: “To maintain the natural Escarpment features…to encourage compatible recreation, conservation, and educational activities…to maintain and enhance the landscape quality of Escarpment features.” (NEP, Part One, 1.3. The [...]
Don Kerr Nominated as Grassroots Hero of 2016 by On the Bay Magazine In their salute to Grassroots heroes, On the Bay profiled five people who made a difference in our local community. Don Kerr was chosen for the Silver Creek Vision Project, his strategy for transferring as much as possible [...]
Lessons from a Neighbouring Watershed: We Are Not Alone By Doug Brown, Member of WAG Committee Sometimes, in the ongoing efforts to sustain our environment, the tasks can seem enormous and even overwhelming. The secret to success, I have learned, is to start small, beginning with one step or project at [...]
Tuesday, 08 March 2016 22:15 With funding in hand, the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust kicks off an ambitious new project to preserve and protect a local Class A salmon & trout stream. Collingwood, ON –It began last spring when the Kolapore Springs Fish Hatchery welcomed one and all to its Feast [...]
Protect the Loree Forest from Motorized Vehicles By Donald Avery, (from Avery’s two reports submitted to The Blue Mountains Council) It should be emphasized that the Loree Forest is an integral part of the Niagara Escarpment Park and Open Space System (NEPOSS), which was recently described by the Ontario Land Use Planning [...]
Grey County Votes to Dissolve the NEC By Don Avery On October 6, 2015, Grey County’s Planning and Development Committee passed a resolution recommending ‘that the Niagara Escarpment Commission be dissolved given the existence of professional planning in county, regional and municipal governments.’ The vote was 13 to 4. The original purpose of [...]
Impact of Run-Off Above: Scenic Caves Road ditch during 2015 spring freshet before rip rap was put in place. Write up and photographs by George Powell Our Spring/Summer 2015 newsletter provided an article emphasizing the impact that increasingly turbid runoff is having on our streams and showed photographs of [...]
