TRCA Monitoring

Effective immediately, all Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) posts will be made on our official Twitter account. If you aren't already following, please join us @TRCA_HQ as there will be no further posts here. Thank you for your continued support!

After 20+years of stream fish and habitat data collection and certification courses, it is time to bring data collectors, managers & users together to hear about how the data is being used, what tools are available to assist with this and how to ensure questions can be answered.

New Workshop March 21 & 22, 2019! The Stream Monitoring & Research Study Design Workshop is open to biologists, ecologists, technicians, resource managers and data managers who are involved in stream surveys. Course information and registration details: bit.ly/2HivJLS

Thanks to decades of cleanups and collaborative planning, Toronto’s waterfront has become a gathering space that draws people to the shores of Lake Ontario. Learn more about what has taken place and what is yet to come at iaglr.org/aoc/toronto/ @TRCA_Monitoring @WaterfrontTRCA

“We use 100 times more salt than what is required,” says Tim Van Seters, Senior Manager of #TRCA's @STEPLivingCity, “The University of Waterloo has done quite a bit of research to see what the right level is. The emerging consensus is about 58 grams per metre squared."

New Blog Article! Crossings and Connectivity: How #TRCA Road Ecology Work Helps Native Species. Learn More: bit.ly/2SOrNmZ

@EcoSpark_Env is engaging youth in #Mississauga with conservation through a unique program called Changing Currents. Youth test water quality and partake in opportunities to help clean up natural environments/ watersheds. #YourMakeYourCommunity #CFofM #SustainableCity

#LeslieStreetSpit is a globally significant IBA: Important Bird & #Biodiversity Area. This is due to particular #bird populations, but many other species, who are regionally rare, stop in too. Recently, that rare sighting was of a Boreal Chickadee!! #woah datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet…

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! This year TRCA staff spent time at Heart Lake and surrounding wetlands monitoring the turtle populations. 333 turtles were monitored in 2018! Check out our success and how were working to help our turtles here: bit.ly/2AS2x7I

How much salt should actually be used on a driveway or sidewalk (if needed)? Less than 58 g/m2, as shown in this image. Avoiding the over application of salt can reduce the amount of chloride in local waterways and help protect fish and other aquatic wildlife. #LessSalty

Did you miss a Lake Ontario Evening on Road Salts? Good News! Presentations are now available at torontorap.ca/resources/ @TRCA_Monitoring @MimicoCreek @onsaltwatch @WWFCanada

The river valley will add 16 hectares of new parkland and riverfront open space and 14 hectares of new aquatic habitat and wetlands to improve biodiversity, water quality and moderate the effects of flooding and erosion. @AquaticHabTO

The #ChristmasBirdCount & #CBC4Kids season is here! Enjoy the outdoors with your local birding community, and don’t miss our photo contest: bit.ly/2E6Q7wS

MEDIA RELEASE: New Provincial Environment Plan Commits to Working With Conservation Authorities bit.ly/2DYni55 #NaturalChampions #StepIntoNature #ConservationAuthorities

What does enough salt look like for roads and parking lots? Here's a slide from Tim Van Seter's presentation at a Lake Ontario Evening on Road Salts. Want the whole presentation? torontorap.ca/resources/ @TRCA_Monitoring @onsaltwatch

Trails can be quite muddy this time of year, making it easy for seeds to be transported on your shoes! Thoroughly cleaning the mud from your shoes will reduce the chances of spreading invasive species to the areas you visit. #TuesdayTip #InvasiveSpecies #Hiking

An update on the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area! cvc.ca/conversations/…

The current stage of work on the Don Mouth Naturalization will continue until the end of Dec. This phase includes site preparation, construction staging, soil treatment, and excavation of the new river valley that will extend the Don River south bit.ly/2PRcCvw

DYK - The Ontario government is developing a #ClimateChange Action Plan & is looking for ideas. Read Conservation Ontario's seven suggestions that the Province should include: bit.ly/2RBpuCW Submit your ideas by Nov 16: bit.ly/2AMHrco #NaturalChampions

We have a new name! The Living City Foundation is now Toronto and Region Conservation Foundation. This change reaffirms our commitment to building support for TRCA. thelivingcity.org/foundation-nam… @WaterfrontTRCA @TRCA_Edu @TRCAparks @TRCA_Restore @TRCA_Stewards @PPGpearson