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Outreach Program

Teachers

  • Contact us if you would like us to give a presentation to your class. Available themes are flexible and have ranged from how the Oak Ridges Moraine was formed, water issues, and urban sprawl, to the importance of civic engagment.

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ORM Community Activism

Oak Ridges Moraine Template Letter
Express your concern about the need to protect the moraine's water sources.
Click here for the template.

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Moraine Train Commemorative Programme

Programme thumbnailOn 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.

Click here to view the commemorative programme [449 kb pdf].

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STORM Newsletters

Most Recent

STORM (Save the Oak Ridges Moraine) Coalition Newsletter- Autumn 2006 Seasonal Storms- Autumn 2006 [450 KB]
Seeking New Home: STORM is Growing!
See bottom of newsletter for details.

Archive

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STORM Books

Few people know it by name, but millions of Ontarians enjoy the quiet oasis of green this natural feature provides. Extending over 200 kilometres, from the Niagara Escarpment in the west to almost the Trent River in the east, this immense ridge of land was created during the last great ice age. Members of the Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition celebrate the special nature of the moraine in this extraordinary collection of essays and photographs.

Available at Firefly Books and Chapters
Read Toronto Star article about book

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Monitoring the Moraine (MTM) Project Publications



Status Report- An Annual Series "A state-of-the-place report on the Oak Ridges Moraine"

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.

Moraine Watch Manual

MTM is pleased to announce that our policy monitoring manual is now available online!

Click here to download the entire manual (1.81 MB pdf).
Click here to download the checklist (96 KB pdf).

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 for more info

Status Report on the Implementation of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan:
Implications for the Greenbelt Plan

Printer-friendly version (Landscaped) [1.99 MB]
Web-viewing version (Lower resolution) [537 KB]

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Moraine Writings

  • Oak Ridges Moraine: Geological Survey of Canada [external website]
  • On the origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine [pdf]
  • Achieving ecological integrity on the Oak Ridges Moraine: Towards ecologically relevant water management [pdf] [Cache]
  • A View of the Greater Toronto Area: A 'Countryside' Plan for Our Future [pdf]
  • Case Study: The Oak Ridges Moraine - Linking Science And Policy For Urban Nonpoint Source Pollution In The Great Lakes Region [ORM-specific] [Entire pdf] [Cache]
  • Superb or Suburb? International case studies in management of icon landscapes- Oak Ridges Moraine. New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment [pdf]
  • A Citizen’s Guide: Leslie Street Road Improvement Project [pdf]

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