Watershed Trust Wins NVCA Conservation Champion Group Award On April 27, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Association (NVCA) recognized the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation with the Conservation Champion Group Award at their Evening of Thanks at the Tiffin Centre in Utopia. Watershed Trust Board members (left to right) Eric Willis, [...]
Watershed Trust Policy on Bottled Water By Norm Wingrove, Member of WAG and WT Board of Directors The Watershed Trust is against plastic pollution, littering and energy consumption related to consumer sales of bottled clear water. We will provide pitchers of water at our events. Recently, we passed the following resolution: [...]
Status of Legislative Reviews By Don Kerr, Member of WAG and Watershed Trust Board of Directors (At time of writing, the Ontario government has announced revisions to the OMB, Land Use and Places to Grow. The implications are yet uncertain. We are hoping many of our suggestions will have been incorporated. [...]
Tree Planting at Black Ash Creek Photos by Sarah Campbell, Aquatic Biologist, NVCA The cold wet weather didn’t stop community volunteers and members of Blue Mountain Watershed Trust from getting their hands dirty planting native trees along Black Ash Creek in Collingwood on Saturday May 6. The trees planted as part [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
