Golf Course Pesticides 2023 results
(Submitted by WAG member Chris Mifflin) Golf courses are known for having perfect, weed-free turf. But this perfection comes at a price. Many kinds of grass on our local golf courses are not native to [...]
Bridgewater OLT Hearing (May 17th – 19th, 2023)
The Blue Mountain Watershed took participant status at the OLT (Ontario Land Tribunal) hearing (May 17th – 19th, 2023) regarding the town’s “lack of decision” on the increased density request by the developer. This development [...]
Strategic Plan Update
On October 20th 2023 the Board of Directors met to review the past and plan the future of the Watershed Trust. We had succeeded in achieving many of our 2019 Plan goals, but missed others, [...]
Huntingwood Trails – Success! For now…
Huntingwood Trails, virtually on the banks of Silver Creek, and surrounded by provincially significant wetlands, is a development for which the Town of Collingwood had closed the file due to failure to fulfill conditions for [...]
Big news – 26/27 Sideroad – Success!
We are happy to announce the Town of Clearview has decided to withdraw from permitting the proposed reconstruction of 26/27 Sideroad. Thank you for your donations and support and especially to the Trust members and [...]
Message from the President
Hello Watershed Trust Members! Take a quick tour of the Collingwood/Blue Mountains area and you can’t help but notice a lift in development activity. As you may imagine, 2023 has been a busy year for [...]