Urban sprawl is gobbling up green space in southern Ontario at an unprecedented rate. At the current rate, an additional 260,000 acres (1,070 km2) of rural land will be urbanized by 2021, almost double the size of the City of Toronto. About 92% of the land is Ontario’s best farmland. […]
Urban Development
For all the tree lovers that we’re sure are as bitterly disappointed as we are at OUFC -a heartbreaking news story. BY DON SCALLEN BLOGS, NOTES FROM THE WILD, November 13, 2012 http://www.inthehills.ca/2012/11/blogs/the-death-of-a-tree/ Denuded and sterilized, the land waits sullenly for the homes and strip malls that characterize the inexorable expansion of Brampton. Two […]