Tags : Niagara Escarpment

Help Us With Our Reader Survey

It’s time for us to get to know you better! In order to improve this magazine that’s all about the Niagara Escarpment, and keep it growing, we’d love to learn some facts about you and what you think about it. We’re launching our first reader survey to get some statistics that our supporting advertisers will […]Read More

Badlands of Caledon Temporary Closure

Ontario Heritage Trust has the following news regarding the Caledon Badlands: At the end of May, a protective fence will be erected along Olde Baseline Road in the Town of Caledon, temporarily closing the Cheltenham Badlands to visitors – while a long-term plan guiding future conservation and public access to the site is under development. […]Read More

Are You a Plover Lover?

  The Piping Plover, an endangered species, should be returning to Lake Huron’s shoreline within the next two weeks. This will be the eighth year in a row that this small shorebird has nested on Bruce County beaches. Last year there were five nests. To assist with the recovery and ongoing protection of this species, Stewardship […]Read More

Help For the Jefferson Salamander

  We just received a notice in the mail from Environment Canada, that they are proposing a Recovery Strategy to conserve the threatened Jefferson Salamander. Areas of critical habitat, which are important for species recovery, are proposed in this strategy. Lands near the Niagara Escarpment are especially hospitable for salamanders and of course most other […]Read More

Extracting the Future: Aggregate Mining

Throughout the course of 2015, the Government of Ontario will be conducting a 10-year review of the Provincial Greenbelt Plan. The Greenbelt Area covers 1.8 million acres and encompasses Protected Countryside agricultural land as well as environmental and ecologically sensitive areas such as the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine. The Greenbelt was created […]Read More

Gazette Autumn 2014: Links

Here are links to more information about the stories in the Gazette section of our Autumn issue: Carson Visser Giant’s Rib Discovery Centre Chance to Play Home to Home Bed & Breakfast Network Hamilton’s Downtown Localicious Foodstuffs Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre  Read More

MPPs Elected Along the Escarpment in 2014

Congratulations to these people just elected as Member of Provincial Parliament for ridings all along the Niagara Escarpment, from Manitoulin Island down to Niagara Falls. We note that most have been re-elected, with new representatives only for Halton and Burlington. We look to all of you to ensure that the Niagara Escarpment remains a world-class example […]Read More

Summer 2014 Issue is On Fire!

Chris Mills took a startling photograph of a re-enactment explosion over Fort Erie that just had to be the cover of our Summer issue, which is starting to be available now. Copies are in the mail to our subscribers, who get first crack, and then our supportive advertisers start to get copies to give out […]Read More

What’s in Winter 2013-14 Now Online

We’ve just posted the editorial content from our Winter issue on our website here, under Magazines – Back Issue – Winter 2013-14. In fact you can click on the cover of any back issue and get to our previously published content. Maybe I should explain why we post content only after the next issue has been […]Read More

Spring 2014: Our Annual Gardens Special

We’re very proud of our Spring 2014 issue. This is our largest ever, and at 64 pages, it has been my goal to grow to this size. Readers and our viewers now really have something to get their teeth into! Here is a peek at the four main feature articles in it. Half are dedicated […]Read More