Category: Nature & Environment
Municipalities are helping developers develop farmland
(By Shirley Dolan – Photo of Joni Sabourin and her mother Mrs. Bev Morley) While working with the city of Ottawa last year on their proposed Site Alteration By-law, staff…
New park at Stittsville Main and Hazeldean christened ‘Kavanagh Green’
The new park space at the southwest corner of Stittsville Main Street and Hazeldean Road was officially commemorated on Saturday as Kavanagh Green. The name is meant to recognize the…
Stittsville’s ‘trillium guy’ makes a home for rare flowers in his garden
Photo: Brian Carson with a cluster of rare double trilliums at his home in Stittsville. Photo by Devyn Barrie. Brian Carson has spent nearly two decades on the hunt for…
Firefighters douse 50-foot tall grass fire near Stittsville
Photo: The aftermath of a recent grass fire, tweeted by fire sector chief Todd Horricks on Sunday. He did not specify the picture location. Firefighters extinguished a grass fire about…
Coalition joins forces to protect 178 hectares of nature in the Carp Hills
(Media release sent on behalf of Ducks Unlimited) Ducks Unlimited Canada, the City of Ottawa, the Government of Canada and several private donors have joined forces to ensure that a…
Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust celebrates donation of Whaleback Woodland Reserve
(PHOTO: Michael MacPherson, former MMLT board instrumental in securing the land, Carolyn Canfield, and Ian Campbell, neighbour and long time friend to Carolyn. They’re standing in front of the whaleback…
HIGH FIVE: Responsible Dog Owners of Canada clean up Shea Woods
(PHOTO: Dagmar VanBeselaere, Jennifer Harris and Scott Campbell at Saturday’s clean-up.) Responsible Dog Owners of Canada (RDOC) would like to thank all those who came out on Saturday to clean…
Stittsville dog park clean-up at Shea Woods on April 21
Responsible Dog Owners of Canada (RDOC) will join forces with Kathleen Edwards of Quitters Coffee Shop to host the Spring Dog Park Cleanup on Saturday April 21 from 9:00am-10:00am. RDOC…
The wind just blew over the Mattress Mart sign on Terry Fox
(Photo via Jaime Robinson on Twitter.) While our neighbours in Kanata North and West Carleton are dealing with a widespread power outage tonight, so far Stittsville has been spared. Heavy…
OPEN HOUSE: Flowing Creek and Hobbs Drain regulations and hazard land mapping
The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) has completed hazard mapping studies for Flowing Creek and Hobbs Drains — tributaries of the Jock River. Members of the public are invited to an…
Horticultural Society picks winning photos in annual competition
These are the results of our 2018 Photography Competition Best in Show & Class 1: We See Thee Rise – a spring garden – Judith Cox (pictured above) Class 2:…
UPDATE: A wetland loophole closes slightly
Last September, Devyn Barrie wrote an article about wetlands called “A regulatory loophole you can drive a dump truck through”. In the story, local environmental activist Ken McRae (pictured above)…
NOTEBOOK: No food forest (yet) for Blackstone Community Park
City of Ottawa staff received plenty of comments about the proposed plan for the new Blackstone Community Park, but in the end won’t be making any major changes for the…
NOTEBOOK: Stewardship Council lends its support to a food forest for Blackstone Park
You may remember Paul Wilson’s idea for a permaculture food forest at Blackstone Park that we published a couple of weeks ago. Now the idea is getting support from the…
LETTER: A field of dirt and potential in Blackstone
(EDITOR’S NOTE: I recently went for a walk with Paul Wilson (pictured above) around the site of the future Blackstone Community Park near his home. Like many new parks in…