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RESTORE COOTES

Lose a road, (re)gain a wetland: Restore Cootes proposes a new vision for Dundas and Hamilton, one that enhances and restores natural areas on the periphery of Cootes Paradise that have been degraded or lost to development.

Read "Drive Through Paradise: A History of Cootes Drive" a presentation to the Dundas Historical Society by Randy Kay (2009)

Check out a plan to make the Eastern entrance to Dundas into an Ecological Park

We start with Cootes Drive as a prime contender for a restoration project that would replace the road with a vast (original) wetland; as well: McMaster University's "zone 6 and 7" parking lots, Olympic Drive by the old canal, and other sites could be re-mediated to create healthy ecosystems that benefit human and non-human communities.

See the changes at Valley Inn Road, now closed to cars!

This site features media articles and original writing and research of interest as it relates to the health of Cootes Paradise.

CONTACT RESTORE COOTES at dundastard@gmail.com

More Nature!

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wilderness, --to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

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