HELP SAVE THE SILVER CREEK WETLAND ON MAY 17! PROTECT THE PLACE YOU LOVE! THIS...IS OUR WATERSHED MOMENT. On Saturday April 22nd, 2023 The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust and the Town of Collingwood will embrace our love for the planet by celebrating Earth Day! For all genders and orientations, celebrate everything that society may have told you that you should change about yourself. ❤ Leave a "Yes" below if you support repealing Bill 23. 👇 We are all in this together. ❤️ Tag someone that needs to see this 👇 How will you change the world? ❤️ 👩🎤 Gender equality is good for the economy. World: 🌍 > 🔥 Swipe —> to learn more! #POTW: Collingwood Terminals Under A Rainbow For more than six decades, the historic Collingwood Terminals helped to transfer prairie wheat from ships to trains and later trucks. Construction of the Collingwood Grain Terminals started in December 1928 when 4,078 wooden piles were driven into the lake bed to create a foundation for this landmark structure. A true White Beauty May 1st brings Mayflowers! #photooftheweek On your next 'daily walk' why not snap a nature pic? Send us your pics and be featured on our IG and FB pages + our weekly email! Signs of Spring #photooftheweek #photooftheweek An Icy Blue Mountain Introducing Pollinate Collingwood, an organization aiming to get Bee City Canada certification and become Butterflyway Ranger status. ~ Make A Difference In The Place You Call Home ~ VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! This is an Algonquin wolf, one of many species in Ontario identifies as ‘at risk’ by the endangered species act. Ontario is home to over 30,000 species with 243 being at risk due to climate change, disease, habitat loss, invasive species, and pollution. #photooftheweek Bald eagle comeback #photooftheweek Moss & Lichen add colour to Winter Eastern Wild Turkeys are Newcomers Ice Formations #photooftheweek Fantastic Fungi A little late but everyday is a good day to remember... Golden-crowned Kinglet Autumn Sunrise over the Escarpment Praying mantid
On Wed. May 17, Consulate Developments will seek approval at the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) to virtually DOUBLE the density of their development to 610 residences, at Hwy 26 and Princeton Shores Blvd., Collingwood.
The proposed development is situated in the middle of this Provincially Significant Wetland, home to many globally significant and endangered species.
We need YOU and THOUSANDS LIKE YOU to show your opposition...
Development in our area is only speeding up.
Did you know there are plans for more than 6,100 units in the Collingwood & The Blue Mountains?
We have been fighting to save wetlands and watercourse - our most precious green spaces - since 1994.
We've had some big wins.
BUT NOW WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP.
This is a Watershed Moment: we need to stop the worst developments...now. Or, it will be too late.
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We love Collingwood and The Blue Mountains area for its natural beauty.
Yet we are digging it up and paving it over.
As of March 2023 there are plans for 6,100+ new units in the area.
This is YOUR chance to do something about it.
Join The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust as we fight to preserve our natural spaces and waterways.
Make this your WATERSHED MOMENT.
Join us or make a donation at ...
How will you celebrate the planet? ❤
Hold the date!
Date: Saturday Apr 22nd, 2023
Date: 10 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: TBD
Remember you are not too much or too little, you are just enough.
On this International Women's Day, we would love to see you tag a wonderful woman who inspires you! 👇
Blue Mountain Watershed Trust (BMWT) would like to honour just a few of the many women that have worked tirelessly to form BMWT and continue to volunteer and protect ...
To learn how Blue Mountain Watershed Trust is protecting our natural spaces in Blue Mountain watch the Penny Skelton Show starting Sunday Feb 19th.
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To learn how Blue Mountain Watershed Trust is doing our best to fight Bill 23-watch the Penny Skelton Show starting Sunday Feb 19, 2023.
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👩🎓 Gender equality makes our communities safer and healthier.
🦸♀️Gender equality creates a more sustainable environment for everyone.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments. ❤️
Grab your tickets to "A Land Shaped By Women" and continue the discussion!
Where: Simcoe Street Theatre
Date: Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:00pm
More info & tickets see our Bio ...
You: How can I make a difference? 🦸🏾♀️
Also you being a hero: Share this post, get involved, donate! 🕊️
Make @gretathunberg proud by protecting your local wetlands! 🍃
Wetland restoration benefits us in multiple ways, here’s 7 of them:
✅ Revive biodiversity
✅ Improve water supply
✅ Store carbon
✅ Reduce extreme weather
✅ Improve livelihoods
✅ Boost eco-tourism
✅ Enhance ...
The countdown is on! We are less than one week away from our Forest For the Trees Film
Join us on Tuesday August the 23rd @thecollingwoodbrewery for some good 🍻 and great entertainment as Rita Leistner depicts the trials and tribulations of tree planting.
For tickets, visit the link in our bio to purchase or go to: https://btc.watershedtrust.ca/tc-events/forest-for-the-trees/
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Whether you believe they are a gateway to the past or a white elephant, they are arguably the region's most recognized, ...
The Collingwood area is so fortunate to be home to many beautiful White Swans and their cygnets. Amongst the largest flying birds, swans gracefully glide over our Georgian Bay waters with their cygnets always close behind.
Photo Credit: Jeff Young
Please keep sending your pictures including the location, your thoughts and your website or Instagram to photos@watershedtrust.ca. #photooftheweek
One of the most beautiful signs of spring is the Mayflower. It is most commonly found in rocky pastures, barren lands and grassy areas where the soil is acidic and well drained. These ones were found on the Kolopore Uplands Trails in The Blue Mountains. Photo Credit and Commentary: Duncan Bristow
Please keep sending your pictures including the location, your thoughts and your website or Instagram to photos@watershedtrust.ca
Already have some great nature photos? Send 'em our way.
Please submit to photos@watershedtrust.ca (our fantastic new Photo of the Week coordinator Morag McKenzie). No professional camera necessary - we love phone pics too 🌿
One of the first signs of Spring are the beautiful crocuses pushing up through our gardens in Collingwood and its surrounding areas. I can't wait to see them in my garden soon!
Photo Credit: @jeffwhitephotocanada
Have you been out with your cameras capturing our gorgeous surroundings here in the Land of the Escarpment? Creatures? Flowers? Waterways? The Bay in her many moods? Please share your camera's eye view and send your photo, the...
Looking back at April 2019's ice storm from the top of Blue Mountain. I can't wait for Spring this year!
Photo Credit: Jeff White.
Your Nature Photo of the Week, compliments of the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust (BMWT)
Dear Members and Friends of the Watershed Trust: BMWT is so excited to relaunch the Nature Photo of The Week for all to enjoy! My name is Morag McKenzie and I have joined your team as the Photo Coordinator. ...
With 10-12 pollinator gardens planned and plants already ordered, this group is a growing concern!
Join the first pulic group meeting on Thursday, March 12, 7pm at the Free Schools Room at the Collingwood Library.
Get involved!
Today is #GivingTuesday!
Giving Tuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it’s a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes.
Donate today, give a membership to a loved one, volunteer with us!
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Fight the Phrag Saturday, August 24th 👋
Come out & join the community coming together to fight this unwelcome shoreline invader. Visit our Facebook page>events for more info.
The Ontario government is proposing changes to the endangered species act, irresponsibly veiled as a “consultation to improve the effectiveness of our environmental protections to ensure a balanced approach between a healthy ...
This immature Bald Eagle near Brentwood is part of a growing population since its endangered status in the 1970s. Back then due to DDT & other contaminants, only 3 to 8 pairs remained in Southern Ontario and could not successfully produce young. While the ban of DDT allowed the species to regain numbers, around our Great Lakes they suffered longer because of the contaminated fish. According to the Ontario Bald Eagle Management Plan, “As a top ...
In contrast to vast snowy landscapes, moss and lichens add colour to the winter woodlands. What is the difference between moss & lichen? "In short, a moss is a simple plant, and a lichen is a fungi-algae sandwich," says Cassandra Robillard at the Canadian Museum of Nature blog.
Blue Mountains
Photo Credit: Debbie Crosskill
Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) have only been reintroduced to Ontario since 1984. The original pre-settlement wild turkey was extirpated by 1909 due to loss of habitat with farming and over-hunting.
These 5 turkeys circled around our pond bank before checking out the edge of the grass seen here in the centre of the photo. We see many flocks of dozens around the uplands of Blue Mountains but never had we seen these 5 grand-daddies...
Ice forms on dangling branches, thanks to the rushing waters of the river beneath.
Beaver River
Photo Credit: Debbie Crosskill
Bracket or Shelf fungi, were in full bloom in the fall along the Nippissing Trail in the Blue Mountains. Many varieties can be found in Ontario. How do fungi create an Internet for trees? The mycelium (a network of fine filaments) of fungi make up and underground internet allowing plants to talk to one another.
Nippissing Trail, Blue Mountains
Photo Credit: Leslie McLellan #photooftheweek
Papaver rhoeas
The dormant seeds of Papaver rhoeas (common poppy,corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy or red poppy) are known to start growing in disturbed edges of farm fields, trenches and burial grounds.
Colour, life, renewal & remembrance.
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As an all-season species in our region, many Golden-crowned Kinglets assembled in Collingwood recently. In these lovely action shots, you see they love to forage among conifers where they will hop from branch to branch or even hang upside down to feed.
Collingwood Harbour
Photo Credit: Leslie McLellan
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Explore the forests of the Niagara Escarpment with the online guidebook from the Bruce Trail Conservancy. You can read about the different forest regions, types, layers & stages of forests, and use the full colour photos & descriptions to identify tree species.
South of Glen Huron
Photo Credit: Gary Cauthers
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The praying mantid (Mantis religiosa) came from Europe by accident- first to New York in 1899 after which it spread to southern Ontario and Quebec.
Chuck Grant Trail of the Bruce Trail, Blue Mountains
Photo Credit: Chris Wright
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