As the fight to save Meadowbrook from development continues, we’d like for you – our loyal supporters – to tell us what you’d like to see in a future Meadowbrook Park? For example:
* Picnic tables?
* Cross-country skiing in the winter?
* A small organic farm?
* A bird sanctuary?
Continue to keep the dream of Meadowbrook Park alive by leaving a comment about what you’d like to see in this future nature park open and accessible to all citizens of the Island of Montreal.
BY AL HAYEK
There are strawberry fields on the east slope of the hill in the northern portion of Meadowbrook. I can imagine the nature park with a trail going by the hill: school children seeing real strawberries growing wild on the vine.
Nearby is a small marsh with reeds and the songs of red-winged blackbirds. Our trail should go by here also. Everyone should have the thrill of listening to a red-winged blackbird singing in its native marsh.
By AL HAYEK
A number of very interesting activities directed towards the goal of conserving Meadowbrook were conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27 and 28, at the summit on biodiversity and the greening of Montreal held at the Gelber Centre on Cote-St-Catherine Road.
Hosted by the Conseil Régional Environment Montréal, the City of Montréal and Health and Social Services of Québec, the conference attracted 258 local and international delegates. In this international year of biodiversity, the purpose was to share greening experiences and to mobilize the decision makers of Montreal to protect biodiversity.
