Year 2000 Conservation Work

Last year was a very successful year, but somehow CRAA surpassed the 1999 record and with more funding and more work accomplished in 2000!

CRAA employees and volunteers planted over 65,000 trees along the Credit River between March and August, reforesting 90% of the open stretches between Norval and Mississauga! CRAA volunteers also completed the Erindale Park boulder placement (see web page), major bank stabilizers on Black Creek (Hunter and Donnelly properties), and the main Credit River at the Wolf property. Signs were erected at all our sites to inform the public about the work, new land owners were signed up for future work and past rehabilitation sites were maintained. Funding: CRAA received funding from The Ontario Trillium Fund ($40,000.00) and Eco-Action 2000 ($40,000.00), as well as the Great Salmon Hunt care off Mayor Hazel McCallion ($5,000.00), OMNR's CFWIP ($10,200.00), and CRAA's fund raising. Funding paid for a pick up truck, trees, student labour, equipment, materials and fuel. Reforestation: Reforesting the river banks to create a 100m wide buffer strip was the main goal of the year 2000 work. CRAA employees planted upwards of 1,000 trees a day in April and May with volunteers from CRAA and Scouts Canada planting an additional 7,500 trees over two days. The Pictures show only a few small sites planted by CRAA in the year 2000.

	CRAA employees beginning to plant the Britannia site with Ash and Maple trees.
	CRAA's Earth Day volunteer day. 34 CRAA volunteers planted over 3,500 bare root trees on the South side of Steeles Avenue on a cold, wet Saturday.

CRAA volunteer Paula Carrasco planting a poplar tree along the river.

CRAA volunteer Doug Nicholson with shovel in hand and 20 white pines ready to plant.

	Field of Pines, planted with CRAA and the Brampton Scouts/Cubs/Guides.
	Over 350 Brampton scouts coordinated by 15 CRAA volunteers took to the North side of Steeles Avenue to reforest this open area.
	CRAA's stream rehabilitation signs.