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 →
Over the past few months, Ruisseau Jackson Protected Natural Area (RJANP) has been identifying sites for nesting boxes for two endangered bird species, the wood duck and the tree swallow, in line with the spirit of our mission of nature conservation and raising community awareness of the biological diversity in the area around Ruisseau Jackson. New tenants wanted Yesterday, four Lire la suite →
Mushrooms are a major component of local biodiversity! The Ruisseau Jackson watershed is rich in forest mushrooms of all kinds. Here are some specimens photographed by Martin Gauthier from our conservation organization. They are all beautiful and fascinating! Unlike plants, fungi cannot synthesize their own food using solar energy. They don’t have chlorophyll! The latter allows plants to capture energy Lire la suite →
Nature-based Solutions are defined by IUCN as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. People and the planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Bringing degraded ecosystems back to life – for example by planting trees, cleaning Lire la suite →