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Be sure to Consult with the GRCA!

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activity_geocaching_headerGanaraska Forest Management Plan Update

The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority (GRCA) is in the process of updating the Forest Management Plan (FMP) for the Ganaraska Forest. The last FMP was completed in 1998 and provided framework for managing the forest for the next 10 years. The current FMP has a December 31, 2017 sunset date and the new plan must be developed to guide the use and management of the Ganaraska Forest moving forward.

Throughout this process, the GRCA is seeking public input. Your assistance is much appreciated.

Current Ganaraska Forest Management Plan:
Forest Management Plan – Volume 1 of 3
Forest Management Plan – Volume 2 of 3
Forest Management Plan – Volume 3 of 3

Ganaraska Forest Trails Project (Marsh Report) – August 1997

Frequently Asked Questions

Have Your Say – please fill out the comment card and mail to the GRCA (address at bottom of card)

Online Survey

Community E-News
Issue # 1

Upcoming Meetings

~ Ganaraska Forest Landowner/Neighbour Meeting – November 2nd – Agenda
~ Ganaraska Forest Recreational Users Committee Meeting – November 3rd – Agenda
~ Ganaraska Forest Patroller’s Meeting – November 8th – Agenda
~ Ganaraska Forest Public Meeting/Open House – November 22nd @ the Ganaraska Forest Centre – 4:00-8:00pm

Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us via email or by calling 905.885.8173.

 

New speakers added to Trailhead Toronto

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Be sure to watch trailheadtoronto.com for updates to our presenters!

Carolyn Woodland OALA, FCSLA, MCIP, RPP Senior Director, Planning, Greenspace and Communications for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA).
Carolyn Woodland OALA, FCSLA, MCIP, RPP Senior Director, Planning, Greenspace and Communications for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA).

We are Very pleased to have added Carolyn Woodland OALA, FCSLA, MCIP, RPP as a speaker to the Trailhead Toronto Agenda. Thanks to TRCA and to Carolyn for giving of their time and expertise. http://trailheadtoronto.com November 24, 2016

Carolyn Woodland is Senior Director, Planning, Greenspace and Communications for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). Since 2002, she has overseen the environmental planning, development review, policy and environmental assessment functions for the conservation authority within 18 municipalities. She has worked with Waterfront Toronto, the National Capital Commission (Ottawa), the former Crombie Commission, and City of Toronto on many landmark planning and design assignments. She and her team prepared the award winning “The Living City Policies for Planning and Development in the Watersheds of TRCA”, setting new design and technical standards for green infrastructure in new and redeveloping communities.
Carolyn is a landscape architect and planner with almost 40 years of experience as an award winning consultant, academic (University of Toronto), and in public service. She has lectured across Canada on the importance of setting new community directions with an ecological view to planning and urban form. A few of her trail planning and resource management/tourism projects include Discovery Routes of the Near North, Rouge Park Management Plan, Twenty Valley Tourism Strategy, and the Martin Goodman Trail at Humber Bay Shores.

Pleased to have added Joey Schwartz to our program!

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Joey Schwartz is the Advocacy Director for the Toronto Bicycling Network (TBN), the largest recreational cycling club in the GTA.

He’s also a CAN-BIKE instructor teaching at various locations throughout the GTA. He was on the founding committee of the West Toronto Railpath, when it was a sub-committee of the Roncesvalles–MacDonell Residents’ Association back in 1997.

He’s also been active with the Bells on Bloor campaign and with Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC), mostly helping out on the memorial Ghost Bike Rides they sponsor about a week after a cyclist is killed in Toronto.

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You talked! We listened! As a Canadian campaign we want you to feel secure about donating in Canadian dollar currency instead of US currency. Visit our new campaign donation page at https://www.tilt.com/tilts/guelph-to-goderich-rail-trail. We have moved our campaign over to a great crowdfunding website called Tilt. Through this we are able to not only have no fees on donations we earn but when you send a donation using a Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit there are no fees at all as opposed to other platforms which can take up to 10% in site fees and credit card fees! Meaning every cent goes to this great initiative. Thank you for understanding and sharing your concerns, and thank you for donating. You can look below for our donation perks.

Each trail segment and community can benefit directly from this $60,000 fundraising campaign. We’ve had a tremendous amount of support in the past from communities that are touched by the G2G Rail Trail experience. The 127 km route is made up of the amazing Kissing Bridge Trailway, Perth Harvest Pathway and the Lake Huron Route.

G2G Crowdfunding Campaign Info:

The Guelph to Goderich Rail Trail surrounds cyclists and hikers with the richness of Ontario’s pastoral landscape and rural heritage. Through hushed forest groves and rolling Mennonite farmland, across river valleys and wetlands, past 13 villages and towns, to the sunset horizon of one of the world’s Great Lakes, visitors of all fitness and skill levels can enjoy any part of the G2G’s 127-km length through four counties. Completion of the G2G Rail Trail opens Ontario’s pastoral heartland to the global fitness and recreation phenomena of backpacking and cycle tourism. The G2G helps rural Ontarians share their countryside and hospitality with the world.

More information on the G2G Rail Trail can be found at: http://www.g2grailtrail.com/ or www.facebook.com/G2GRailTrail

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Share the video WITH the link (https://www.tilt.com/tilts/guelph-to-goderich-rail-trail) to the fundraising page in your post and be entered to win one of five $50 Tim Horton’s gift cards (along with the other cool prizes from previous posts!).

A charitable donation tax receipt will be issued for all people donating $20 or more.