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Saturday May 2 - 10 AM till Noon

Please join us for a celebratory spring time tree planting at the Chilligo Conservation Area.

The Grand River Conservation Authority’s recent purchase of 47 acres of land, increasing the size of the Chilligo Conservation Area to 121 acres, is certainly cause for celebration — and now as icing on the cake the GRCA’s forestry department has committed to a planting of 100 trees on the new land!

White spruce, white ash and sugar maple will be planted along the fence line to symbolically help revitalize this important greenspace. Our friends from Cambridge Stewardship will also join us with their resources and at least 50 trees and shrubs.

We need as many volunteers as possible to show up for a bit of fun and highly rewarding light work. Your support is important and will be much appreciated.

See map below for directions. Please consider walking, cycling or car pooling to the gathering. Bring appropriate clothing for the weather, boots and a shovel if you have one. Also, feel free to bring any indigenous plants that you would like to plant.

Thank you and we’ll see you soon!
from the Friends Of Chilligo

Yesterday around dusk, two four wheelers were seen entering Chilligo by one of our supporters.  A call was made and one of us went to check it out. It turns out they unloaded from pick up trucks on Blackbridge Rd. headed along Hespeler Rd. into Chilligo and then back again. They were confronted and reminded that what they were doing was illegal as well as being entirely unacceptable to the residents of the our neighbourhood.

These young men claimed that they were ” not from around here “.  This magnifies the bigger issue. The Region Of Waterloo must do something about those ugly rutted roads along the sides of Hespeler Rd.  As long as they are there, people will think that it’s OK use them and will be led into the greenspace causing more damage.

Twice in the past couple of years folks from the Regional Roads Operations met with members of the Friends Of Chilligo to hear our concerns and the Regional Police are certainly sympathetic. We need more of a commitment. What we ask for is Policing priority, restoration, tree planting and signs. It’s not all that complicated . This silliness has been allowed to go on for far too long. Step Up ! Please !

It’s celebration time folks! The Grand River Conservation Authority has announced that they are going to purchase the Ministry of Transportation lands that abut their present Chilligo Conservation Area. This purchase expands the area defined as a Nature Preserve to be used by people only for passive recreation. Chilligo will grow 63 per cent, gaining 19 hectares or 47 acres, for a total area of 49 hectares (121 acres).

more to come…

Read about the announcement at the Cambridge Times