Ganaraska Conservation News

GRAFTON, ON – On Saturday Nov. 2nd, the Highway of Heroes Tree Campaign planted 30 trees at the Haldimand Memorial Arena and Park. With the help of the local Veteran Community and members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 580, a short ceremony was held followed by tree planting activities. The event, sponsored by Frank…

A key challenge for the agriculture sector is to feed an increasing global population, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact and preserving natural resources for future generations. Urbanization is in general known to change the land use in southern Ontario; turning agricultural land into commercial, industrial and residential areas often adversely affecting…

My name is Evan Barton, and I have had the pleasure of working for Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority (GRCA) for the 2019 summer season. I worked as the Watershed Monitoring Technician, working alongside Lindsay Champagne, Watershed Biologist and Mike Smith, Water Resources Technician. This job with GRCA has had a wide variety of tasks and…

September brings along warm, breezy days and cool, clear nights; perfect weather for getting outdoors, being active, and going to one of the many green spaces within our community. The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority encourages you to visit one of 9 local conservation areas or the Ganaraska Forest, and to get out and get active…

Trent University’s Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program and School of the Environment completed a study, supported by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority, to quantify changes in landuse/ landcover change within twelve Lake Ontario tributaries between 1971 and 2010, and to determine whether these changes co-occurred with changes in…

Port Hope, Ontario Public Safety Canada Flooding is Canada’s costliest and most frequent natural disaster. Communities are looking for solutions to mitigate the costs and damages caused by flooding to businesses and residences.   Today, Member of Parliament for Northumberland—Peterborough South, Kim Rudd, on behalf of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the…

NEWMARKET (August 19, 2019) Conservation authorities and Conservation Ontario are stunned by a letter that the Province circulated recommending that conservation authorities start shutting down any programs not related to their ‘core mandate’ as described by the Province in the proposed changes to the Conservation Authorities Act earlier this year. Conservation authorities (CAs) and their member municipalities…

If you have ever walked or rode the trails in the 11, 000 acre Ganaraska Forest, you may have come across some trees marked to be logged with orange paint slashes. To the untrained eye, one might consider these an eyesore. However, the annual timber harvest is actually one of the most important and successful…

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Flood Potential: High The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority advises that water levels on Lake Ontario reached a new record peak of 75.92 meters above sea level (masl), which was last recorded on June 15th.  Since then water levels have slowly declined and are now sitting at 75.73 masl as measured at Cobourg today. With outflows…