 2012 Status Report: Compliance, Infrastructure, and Community Concerns on the Oak Ridges Moraine
The latest status report provides an update on municipal progress with implementing ORMCP policies, maps infrastructure environmental assessments, and draws attention to citizen concerns about land-use activities that are taking place across the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Action Guide to Monitoring on the Moraine
 The Action Guide to Monitoring on the Moraine was created to help you develop a Strategic Monitoring Plan. It will help groups get started in the most effective way possible. It will also help groups that are already monitoring to improve their effectiveness, make their activities more strategic and increase their impact.
This guide will also help you get your information to the right people and start a dialogue in your community. It’s about making the most of the information you’ve collected as a group and influencing positive change in your community.
Action Guide to Monitoring on the Moraine [4.32 MB PDF]
Citizens' Guide to the Oak Ridges Moraine
 This guide to provide a starting point for people to more fully engage with the Oak Ridges Moraine. This resource covers the basic ins and outs: the Moraine’s geology, land, water, plants, animals, people, policies and stewardship activities. It provides background information about why the Moraine needs to be protected and the efforts to achieve long-term ecological and hydrological integrity.
Citizens' Guide to the Moraine [10.7 MB PDF]
Moraine Watch Manual for Beginners
 Moraine Watch for Beginners - an easy way for volunteers to track activities like commercial fill, tree cutting, and new development on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Click here for the Beginner's Guide
[3.35 MB PDF]
Click here for the Moraine Watch Beginner's Worksheet [887 KB PDF]
Moraine Watch Manual
 MTM is pleased to announce that our policy monitoring manual is now available online!
The Moraine Watch Manual is a how-to guide for community members to monitor land use planning activity and the performance of their municipal government on moraine-related planning. The manual includes the Moraine Watch Checklist – a step-by-step worksheet for evaluating planning applications, as well as detailed background information on land-use planning and legislation relevant to the moraine.
Click here to download the entire manual [1.81 MB PDF]
Click here to download the checklist [96 KB PDF]
Click here for the Beginner's Guide
[3.35 MB PDF]
2007 Status Report on the Implementation of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan (ORMCP): A Look at New Infrastructure Projects
 The 2007 Status Report is now available in both hard copy and on line.
Prepared for MTM by Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition, this report focuses on new infrastructure projects on the moraine. The approach was to conduct an inventory of new infrastructure projects (roads, water, sewage and utilities) that have triggered environmental assessments (EAs) per section 41 of the ORMCP. Such projects were focused on due to their potential cumulative effect on the quality and quantity of the moraine's ground and surface water, as well as the associated incremental loss of the moraine's natural heritage system.
This report will provide updates on information from the 2006 Status Report (such as municipal conformity, wellhead protection policies, watershed planning, etc.) as well as a ecological monitoring update from Citizens' Environment Watch.
Status Report on the Implementation of
the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan:
Implications for the Greenbelt Plan
Printer-friendly
version (Landscaped) [3.8 MB PDF]
Web-viewing
version (Lower resolution) [537 KB PDF]
Trees of the Oak Ridges Moraine
 This guide was created as a resource to help identify trees of the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Trees of the Oak Ridges Moraine [3.27 MB PDF]
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On November 1, 2009, STORM and the MTM partners celebrated 20 years of community activism on the Oak Ridges Moraine with a leisurely train trip through the Oak Ridges Moraine on the York Durham Heritage Railway's heritage train. The day included a boxed lunch, Moraine in Focus photo gallery shows and special guests to highlight past, present and future community efforts to save the Oak Ridges Moraine…from 1989 to 2015. 
