One year after publishing their Climate Change Strategy, Otonabee Conservation has released their first Climate Change Report Card summarizing their progress of implementing the Strategy in 2021. The Otonabee Conservation Climate Change Strategy includes four goals: Educate, Adapt, Mitigate, and Implement. Each goal identifies objectives and a series of specific… Continue reading
A polite queue formed beside the bridge at the Mill Pond on Friday evening as members of the Millbrook Trout Unlimited organization handed out seedlings to eager residents. There were four species available: Willow, Dogwood, Eastern white Cedar and Sugar Maple. The four hundred saplings were purchased from Otonabee Conservation… Continue reading
I’m not much good at keeping records even though I’d very much like to be. My so-called garden diary is a hit-and-miss affair and not really useful when consulted to see how things in the garden were in a certain year. But at the front of this garden diary (a… Continue reading
It’s nice to have it confirmed by the experts, but we suspected that our local creeks were top notch. In a presentation to Council last month, experts from the Millbrook Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada provided evidence indicating the uniqueness of our local waterways. Trout Unlimited is a volunteer organization,… Continue reading
The community non-profit group the Baxter Creek Watershed Alliance is excited to announce, that an in-kind research project proposal submitted to Fleming College has been accepted! This month BCWA will be kicking off this community-based watershed mapping project through the Geomatics capstone project in the School of Environmental & Natural… Continue reading
Otonabee Regional Conservation Authority (ORCA) has undertaken extensive floodplain mapping projects in seven high priority areas within the Otonabee Region watershed. Floodplain mapping has been created in study areas within Meade, Curtis, Jackson, and Baxter Creeks, North and South Kawartha Lakes, Ouse River in Norwood and for several tributaries around… Continue reading
With the trout fishing season and the return of the children’s fishing derby just around the corner, many of us are dusting off our gear and looking forward to getting out to Baxter Creek or the Millbrook Ponds. Millbrook has one of the few cold-water trout fisheries in southern Ontario… Continue reading
Remember the defoliation last summer resulting from a particularly aggressive gypsy moth infestation? Experts advise that the month of April is a good time to take some preventative measures to avoid a repeat of last year’s experience. First, the terminology has changed. The common name “gypsy moth” has been officially… Continue reading
