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On these last days of 2021, as we slide into the holidays, the Ruisseau Jackson Natural Protected Area’s team wishes you the best for the festive season! We are a small community, and it is quite likely that you will come to the beautiful Laurentians and possibly our watershed to recharge your batteries before starting a new year. Whether you Lire la suite →

December is the month for taking stock. Ruisseau Jackson (RJANP) has planned its activities on an annual basis, and here is a summary of its 2021 adventures. Because of the pandemic and related sanitary measures, our community and environmental awareness activities for 2021 were quite limited and we didn’t hold any major fundraisers over the past 12 months. The organization Lire la suite →

The seventh Annual General Meeting of Ruisseau Jackson Natural Protected Area (RJANP) will take place virtually in consideration of the current pandemic. The meeting is open to members in good standing and registered. To renew your membership and register, please write to the following address before November 25, 2021: info@ruisseaujackson.org (438-340-1768) The Assembly is organized on Sunday November 28, 2021 Lire la suite →

The Municipality of Morin-Heights is in full action this fall to reduce the sediment input in the main watercourse of the Ruisseau Jackson watershed. In this photo, a road shared between the municipality and that of Saint-Sauveur (Quebec) in the MRC des Pays-d’en-Haut. Angled berms diverting water into undisturbed ground will prevent sediment-laden water from entering the stream. Ruisseau Jackson Lire la suite →

Another good deed accomplished by our group in October 2021. The Ruisseau Jackson (RJANP) team and many volunteers cleaned up four illegal dump sites near Ruisseau Jackson. The sites were right next to municipal cross-country ski trails. Some of them were dating back to the 1950s! These dump sites are a scourge, and there are thousands of them in North Lire la suite →