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The Cootes to Escarpment Park System:
A Conservation and Land Management Strategy

Documents: Reports

Here you can download the reports and documents produced during our path-finding project (2007-2009). Reports are arranged below in reverse chonological order of completion (most recent first).

Cootes to Escarpment Park System: Final Phase II Report

In January 2009 we released the first draft of the Phase II report, containing the details of recommendatons about how a major new park system could be established and function. In the first half of 2009, many stakeholders and others provided comments on the report. Editorial work and layout was completed at the begining of November 2009.

Because the high resolution maps that accompany the Phase 2 report are large files, they have been set up here as separate files.

• Cootes to Escarpment Park System Final Phase 2 Report (1 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 1 - Study Area within the Greenbelt Plan - (1.5 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 2 - Jurisdictional Boundaries Within The Study Area - (1.5 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 3 - Natural Heritage Features - (2 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 4 - Provincial Plans - (2 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 5 - Current Cootes to Escarpment Park Lands - (4.2 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 6 - Potential Cootes to Escarpment Park System - (4.5 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

• Final Phase II - High Resolution Map 7 - Trails and Wildlife Crossings - (5 megabyte Adobe Arobat Reader File)

September 2009: Cootes to Escarpment Park System: Summary Report

We've prepared a 12 page colour overview of our vision of the park system. We hope that this encapsulates the vision of the proposed park system.

• Cootes to Escarpment Park System: A Conservation Vision (3 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader File)

February 2009: Open House Colour Brochure

A main purpose of the study is to capture and develop a vision for the natural lands in our area to serve both recreational and conservation/biodiversity purposes. In February 2009 we prepared an attractive colour brochure for our open house to begin to express that vision in an accessable and exciting way.

• Colour Open House Brochure (1 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader File)

January 2009: Phase II Report - Consultation Draft

The "Phase II" report summarizes the recommendations from our consultations with stakeholders, the general public and specialists working for conservation land owning agencies about how the park system could be organized. In its present form (as of early Deceber 2008) it was made available for consultation and comment by the public in our Open House in February and our Stakeholder Committee in April. This document will be extensively revised before it appears in its final form in 2009.

• "Phase II Report" summarizing the results of consultations and research (1.7 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader file)

• Colour maps to accompany the Phase 2 Report (3 megabyte Adobe Acrobat Reader file) - PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ON-LINE COPIES OF THE MAPS WERE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE ON DISPLAY FOR INFORMATION AT THE OPEN HOUSE. PLEASE CONTACT MICHELLE ALBANESE FOR INFORMATION ON UPDATED MAPS.

May 2008: Summary of Community Forum Held 10 May 2008

• Summary of Community Forum held on 10 May 2008 (PDF File - 33 kb - Opens on new browser window)

January 2008: Phase I Background Report

The "Phase I" background report is a technical overview of the conservation and land management matters for the natural lands within the study area.

• Phase I Background Report (PDF File - 400 kb - Opens into new browser window)

  • Maps of the study area (figures from Phase 1 Background Report in colour):

    • Figure 1 - Overview of Study Area (2 meg jpg file)
      

    • Figure 2 - Relevant Provincial Plans (2 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 3 - Land Ownership (3 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 4 - Land Use (2.5 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 5 - Physiography (2 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 6 - Soils (2.5 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 7 - Slope (1.7 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 8 - Hydrology (2.9 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 9 - Greenlands (3 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 10 - Interior Forests (2.8 meg jpg file)
      
    • Figure 11 - Recreation Trails (2.5 meg jpg file)

Last Updated: 26 November 2009