 The Conservation Halton logo featuring the turkey vulture, the Niagara Escarpment and Lake Ontario shoreline. Conservation Halton (CH), also known as the Halton Region Conservation Authority (HRCA), is a conservation authority established under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. It forms a partnership with the Province of Ontario, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the regional municipalities of Halton, Peel and surrounding municipalities. Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) • Land 917,741 km² • Water 158,654 km² (14. ...
Halton Regional Municipality, or Halton Region, is located in Ontario, Canada, and is a part of the Greater Toronto Area. ...
Motto: Working for you Area: 1,241. ...
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Mission statement To protect and enhance the natural environment from lake to escarpment for present and future generations. The natural environment comprises all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth. ...
Lake Ontario seen from near Wolcott, New York Lake Ontario, bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontarios Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ...
Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario. ...
Key roles Conservation Halton serves the communities in which it resides in various functions. It provides environmental protection to the large local forest resource and assists in maintaining and improving the health of the watershed's natural environment. This includes the watershed’s most significant natural feature, the Niagara Escarpment. Conservation Halton also manages water resources; ensuring the surrounding communities receive clean water and protecting them from flooding. A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ...
A watershed is a region of land where water flows into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. ...
Water (from the Old English word wæter; c. ...
Look up Flood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ...
Staff Conservation Halton employs 339 staff (2003) including full-time, part-time and seasonal employees. Its administration office is located in Milton, Ontario. In 2004 CH was listed as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by Maclean's magazine because of its free entry perk for employees and their families to all HRCA parks. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Milton (2005 population 56,000) is a town in southern Ontario, Canada, about 40 km west of Toronto on Highway 401, and is the western terminus for GO Transits Milton Line commuter train and bus corridor. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Macleans is Canadas leading weekly news magazine. ...
Parks The authority operates six conservation parks year-round, most with full-time staff. These six parks are all located in the Halton region. Additonally, Conservation Halton maintains a number of smaller conservation lands with limited staff and facilities, as well as local properties that have no facilties or public access. Because parks are funded on a self-sustaining basis, entrance fees are charged at the staffed parks. All parks except Mountsberg offer connections to the Bruce Trail. An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...
The Bruce Trail is a hiking (and multi-use) trail in southern and central Ontario, Canada. ...
Crawford Lake near Campbellville, Ontario is a meromictic lake which has allowed archaeologists to drill core samples of pollen dating back hundreds of years to learn about the agricultural history of the native Iroquois Indians. ...
Mountsberg Conservation Area near Campbellville, Ontario is widely known for their Raptor Centre. ...
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