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Toronto’s Ravines and Urban Forests
What you need to know before your trail
Ravines are one of the wonders of Toronto. Cutting deep through the city, they are islands of natural heritage. While the city carries on above them and inevitably has its impact, the ravines still offer surprising ecological diversity. And they have much to tell about Toronto’s history.
Jason Ramsay-Brown has had a lifelong fascination with ravines, and he has spent years exploring them and discovering their little-known history.
Locations
Reset- Canada - Ontario - Toronto
- A: Gates Gully
- B: Sylvan Park - Gates Gully
- C: Taylor Creek Park
- D: Elevated Wetlands
- E: L'Amoreaux Park North
Travel Guide
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For the past 15 years Jason has explored more than 100 of these ravines, and hundreds of kilometres of trails weaving in and out of them. In this book he shares his knowledge so that Torontonians and visitors alike can better appreciate their ravine heritage.
Among the 30 ravines across the city featured in this book are:
Gates Gully in the Scarborough Bluffs area, a crossroads of natural heritage and local history Glendon Forest, with a beautiful old-growth forest area at risk because of the impact of visitation on highly environmentally sensitive areas Taylor Creek Park in the East York area, an example of the city’s sewershed and the value of wetlands Passmore Forest and L’Amoreaux Park North and its 600-year-old Alexandra aboriginal site where 800 Huron-Wendat people lived Rouge Park on the city’s eastern edge, and the story of a proposed urban national park.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Toronto’s Ravines and Urban Forests: Their Natural Heritage and Local History
Destination: Toronto Author/Guide: Jason Ramsay-Brown Departure Time: 1991 onwards
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