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.
