Earlier this month, Les Amis de Meadowbrook, in collaboration with Héritage Laurentien and supported by dozens of environmental groups and thousands of citizens island-wide, announced that on April 19, 2010 (next Monday) we will be taking our campaign directly to Montreal City Hall in an attempt to convince the Mayor and members of Council to preserve Meadowbrook.
Sample letter to Mayor Tremblay
12/04/2010 by Adriana
If you want to let Mayor Tremblay know where you stand on the Meadowbrook case and preservation of green spaces in general, write him a letter! Compose your own or inspire yourself with the following:
- copy the message below
- personalize it with your name and address (text to be replaced is highlighted in green)
OP-ED: An argument for saving Meadowbrook
11/04/2010 by Adriana
Photos by Richard Dupuis
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Conserve Meadowbrook: A Project for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity
Meadowbrook Golf Course, that Island of Green in northern Lachine and southern Cote-St-Luc, is a welcome relief from the endless expanse of houses and factories, train yards and highways. An area of 57 hectares, with its original topography of undulating hills and ravines, contains row upon row of magnificent large trees, little thickets crowning its ravines and the Little St-Pierre River. It is home to rabbits and foxes and other small animals. Vestiges of the once grand forests that covered the Island of Montreal remain. In the spring waterfowl nest in its ponds and it is visited by the occasional deer.
This may soon change if the discussions presently taking place concerning the Lachine portion of Meadowbrook materialize. This rare natural area may soon become streets, sidewalks, driveways, housing and parking lots.
