May Lecture: Toronto’s Prescribed Grazing Project

Date: Jan 17, 2025 at 17:00
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Join us on Sunday, May 5th at 2:30 PM for our May Lecture: Toronto’s Prescribed Grazing Project.

In 2024, the City of Toronto (Urban Forestry) became the first municipality in Ontario to introduce urban goat grazing as a management tool to address invasive species and enhance habitat diversity. The Prescribed Grazing Pilot Project was a significant success story, bringing over 60 goats to graze 3000 m2 of meadow habitat at Don Valley Brick Works Park.  The City of Toronto also engaged Toronto Field Naturalists on a volunteer monitoring protocol to help provide good quality data to the project over time.  Join us to learn more about the project, and this exciting and innovative approach to urban ecosystem management. This lecture will provide an overview of the project and summarize the recent results of TFN’s monitoring report.

Speaker:

Cheryl Post, Natural Environment Specialist, Urban Forestry, Natural Environment Infrastructure, Environment, Climate & Forestry. City of Toronto

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Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.