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NEWMARKET (February 15, 2012) The Drummond Report released today offers recommendations that have the potential to improve and enhance environmental management in Ontario.  Conservation Ontario, representing the province’s 36 Conservation Authorities specifically referenced in the Report, encourages a thorough discussion on the recommendations.“Conservation Authorities are in a unique position to offer the province innovative ways [...]

There were critics, almost 40 years ago, when Bruce County school trustees bought 320 acres between Boat Lake and Spry Lake for outdoor education.It was a different world then. Kids were always outside anyway, weren’t they? Not now, outdoor educators gathered at the site centre said Saturday. Now, they said, kids average 53 hours in [...]

A walking and cycling trail up the west side of Kingston’s Great Cataraqui River has been dreamed of for many years, first by Phil Quattrocchi as long as 25 years ago and since then by the Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum. The City’s 2003 Cycling and Pathways Study also delineated a possible route. On Nov. 1 [...]

NEWMARKET (February 2, 2012) – The votes have been tallied and the results are in! Conservation Ontario, the organization that represents Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities, has announced the winners of the 2011 Ontario Conservation Areas Photo Contest. The contest encouraged Ontarians to show off their photography skills while stepping into nature to explore their local [...]

The first “Wilderness & Canoeing Symposium” was a small gathering of kindred spirits who first came together to look at each other’s slides in George Luste’s living room on Albany Ave. This was in 1986.  Space was quite limited there, so when other friends heard about this gathering & wanted to participate, space was rented [...]