ALERT! SAVE OAKVILLE'S NATURAL HERITAGE SYSTEM

Special thanks to Diane B. for sending this my way. PLEASE READ!!

ALERT! ALERT! ..... SAVE OAKVILLE'S NATURAL HERITAGE SYSTEM

The first public meeting for the Town of Oakville Transportation Master Plan Review will be held at Oakville Town Hall on September 14, 2011 at 6.30 pm. Please attend this meeting and tell our Town Council and Mayor Burton to CHANGE this plan as it is the first step to the destruction of our Natural Heritage System.

This transportation plan reveals the massive infrastructure maze of new roads, bridges, sewers, and huge expressway (before 2031) that will be imposed upon Oakville's Natural Heritage System. Large parts of the eco-passages, linkages, buffer zones and core areas of forest and wet lands including critical habitat of endangered , rare and threatened species, is being given over to become road allowance. Where roads are placed, nature dies and development follows! Clear cutting more roads and bridges through Lion Valley Park, The majestic forests and valley lands of the North l6 Mile Creek and the Glenorchy Conservation Area must be stopped.

The Natural Heritage System, including The Glenorchy Conservation Area was promised to the people of Oakville as a refuge for nature, to save the fragile biodiversity of Oakville's remaining nature lands.

Only about 30% of the traffic on these new roads will originate in Oakville. The rest is being built with lots of your tax dollars for cross GTA/Regional traffic diversion, directly through our nature land reserve.

Please write to Regional Chair Gary Carr gary.carr@halton.ca. Mayor Burton Mayor@Oakville your Councillors and our MPP Kevin Flynn KFlynn.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org (who fought hard to help us reserve these lands ) and tell them we need our forests and our song birds.

Oakville does not need a third bridge and road corridor dissecting the majestic forests only 500 meters north of the latest new bridge addition at l6 Mile Creek at Dundas. We don't need an expressway clear cut through Glenorchy at Fourth Line through the l6 Mile Creek. Bull dozers must not gouge through our valley forests and destroy the habitat of our most fragile species and this sanctuary for our remaining wildlife! The l6 Mile Creek Valley (ANSI) and Glenorchy Conservation Area is the heart of the NHS and must not be the place for road development.

Please write to all your political representatives. Please view www.oakvillegreen.org click issues and contact President(at)oakvillegreen.org and http://fog-friendsofglenorchy.blogspot.com/ and onwingedthoughts.blogspot.com wingedthoughts with a note of support.

Please help save Oakville`s Natural Heritage System once again.

Diane Burton Dianeburton(at)eol.ca
Friends of Glenorchy: Director Oakvillegreen