Category: Road Ecology

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Airport Parkway / Lester Road Widening

In December 2014 the City of Ottawa issued a Notice of Study Commencement for an environmental assessment of widening the Airport Parkway south of Brookfield Road and Lester Road between the Parkway and Bank Street.  The study is expected to take two years. Here is a Project Overview.  See also www.ottawa.ca/airportparkway. The first meeting of a Public Consultation Group took place on December 4, 2014.  Here is the slide presentation used

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Road Ecology Symposium, Nov 27-28, 2014

The Ontario Road Ecology Group’s symposium on “A National Agenda for Canada” gathered close to 120 people from across Canada and from a range of backgrounds at the Canadian Museum of Nature.  Convener Dave Ireland (managing director of the Centre for Biodiversity at the ROM) noted how what eventually led to OREG started ten years ago with conversations at the Toronto Zoo: Road-killed rattlesnakes at Georgian Bay!  The Group officially

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