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Friday September 23, 2011

Official Opening of Baker's Woods

The City of Vaughan, in partnership with The Regional Municipality of York and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, would like to invite you to attend the Official Opening of Baker's Woods located beside Sugarbush Heritage Park in Thornhill.

Discover the Baker's Woods

Baker's Woods is one of the last remaining stands of old-growth forest in Southern Ontario that provides a glimpse of our recent past. There are old-growth trees in the woods that predate European settlement, including 240-year old sugar maples. Historically, this area was covered by a sugar maple-beech-basswood forest. Baker's Woods is now an a upland hardwood forest of mostly sugar maple with a small proportion of beech and white ash, and a few individuals of other species such as basswood, oak, hickory, elm, ironwood, pine, hemlock and spruce

Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner

The Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner is an annual event celebrating the great conservationist and visionary Charles Sauriol. The dinner not only aims to raise funds to protect environmentally significant lands, but also to raise awareness of just how important conservation is.

Please join us at the 18th Annual Charles Sauriol Environmental Dinner for The Living City on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at the Pearson Convention Centre.

You could be one of the first to get a signed copy of Michael Smith's new cookbook!

Community Solar Energy Project Workshop

Join us for a walk through an actual case study that will give you the basic tools required to get a community solar energy project started in your own community. No previous experience required other than a desire to be part of Ontario's renewable future. Experts will guide you through an interactive discussion. During the session participants will employ various tools to develop an action plan to begin a community power project and work through a simulated project for your neighbourhood.

Other news

Test Your Knowledge

Flora of the Don

The first part of my common name is "scary" and the second part is the name of a classic (1943-1993) single-panel catoon.
Even experts can't agree on what I am.
I'm prettiest in late autumn.
Humans have found many uses for me.

What species am I?

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On the Don is a newsletter about the Don River watershed and the efforts to rehabilitate its waters and lands. This newsletter is published by Toronto and Region Conservation in partnership with the Don Watershed Regeneration Council.

Toronto and Region Conservation
With over 50 years of experience, Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) helps people understand, enjoy and look after the natural environment, for a cleaner, greener, and healthier place to live, for you today and for your children tomorrow.

Don Watershed Regeneration Council
The Don Watershed Regeneration Council is a volunteer, watershed-wide advisory committee established by TRCA in 1995 to help restore the Don River watershed to a healthy, sustainable, natural environment.

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