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The Talon – Vol. 26, No.1 February, 2016
Inside This Issue:
Upcoming Meetings, Outings and Issues
Sutton Christmas Bird Count Report
19th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count
Northern Shrike – Winter Visitor
And more!
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The Talon – Vol. 25, No.10 November, 2015
Inside This Issue:
Upcoming Meetings, Outings and Issues
Autumn Birding Outing – Lake Simcoe, SLSN
Greenbelt Announcement Expected Any Day
SLSN Comments on DRAFT OFFICIAL PLAN, for the Town of Georgina – Summary Report.
And more!
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The Talon – Vol. 25, No.4 April, 2015
Inside This Issue:
Spring Meetings, Outings and Issues
The Greenbelt and ORM Reviews
Ontario Nature Comments on Greenbelt Review
Ontario Nature Information of Key Ontario Plan Reviews
Greenbelt Review – South Lake Simcoe
Hummingbird News
And more!
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Town of Georgina – The Link Steering Committee Agenda Jan. 13, 2015
Inside:
Draft Riverfront Partnership Strategy
Rewilding Lake Simcoe
And more community information…
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The Talon – Vol. 25, No.3 March 2015
Inside this issue:
Sable Island
Rouge Deer/Mammal Census
A Message From The Ontario Greenbelt Alliance Coordinator
Town Of Georgina Official Plan Review and the Ontario Greenbelt Review
And More!
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The Talon – Vol. 25, No.2 February 2015
Inside this issue:
Significant Winter Birds
2015 Outings and Meetings update.
Ecojustice Announcement of South Lake Simcoe Naturalists Comments on the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority Policy Review
Rare Gray-cheeked Thrush Observations from Sutton CBC
And More!
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The Talon – Vol. 24, No.4 October 2014
Inside this issue:
Update on the SLSN’s comments on The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s watershed development policies.
SLSNC’s full comments and accompanying correspondence with Ecojustive have been included below:
Bees and Agricultural Pesticides
Speaker: Sue Chan
THURSDAY OCTOBER 23, 2014 – 7:30 p.m.
Photo credit flickr user blathlean
EGYPT HALL Town of Georgina, York Region, 6757 Smith Blvd. Pefferlaw, Ontario.
Aubrey Goulding produces beeswax candles, skin balms and other products in Paradise (CBC). Sue’s powerpoint presentation is approximately 45 minutes long. It will be followed up by a Q&A. Sue Chan will present current knowledge regarding neonicotinoids pesticide use, and other issues with bees in Canada. Don’t miss this must see presentation! Everyone welcome.
Notice to SLSN members:
This is the time for Naturalists and natural environment advocates to show you care about the beauty, biodiversity and health of the Rouge River watershed and Park and taking steps to protect the Rouge. Important conservation steps in the Rouge to the south of us, can set a tone for future conservation in the Lake Simcoe area in the future.
Some important developments summarized below by Friends of the Rouge.
Ontario Minister Brad Duguid and the Provincial Government are insisting that the Federal Government fully honour its agreement to “Meet or Exceed” the Provincial Rouge Park, Greenbelt and ORM policy framework, as a necessary pre-condition for the transfer of Provincial Rouge Park lands to the Federal Government for the creation of a national Rouge Park (Toronto Star Articles Attached).
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s draft Rouge National Urban Park legislation (Bill C-40) and management plan threaten to undermine the park’s ecological integrity, ecological potential and size.
The originally proposed Rouge NU Park Study Area was 160 km2 of publicly-owned land, mainly in the Greenbelt.
In the maps recently released by Parks Canada, the proposed national Rouge Park has shrunk to an area of only 50 Km2 , less than one third of the original 160 km2 national park proposal.
The current Park proposal is less than half of the publicly owned Greenbelt lands surrounding the Rouge; and only marginally larger than the existing Rouge Park.
Please attend one or more of the upcoming Parks Canada meetings on the Rouge NU Park draft Management Plan and please support FRW’s reasonable request to the Federal Government.
Tuesday September 16 in Pickering, Pickering Recreation Complex, O’Brien Room, 1867 Valley Farm Rd, Pickering, ON L1V 6K7, 7 PM
Thursday September 18 in downtown Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St West, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4 7 PM
Paul Harpley,
President SLSN
