Next Monday, retired geographer Conrad Heidenreich kicks off this year’s 91��ɫ Geography Alumni Association Lecture Series with a talk about how this 250-acre ecosystem on Cook's Bay has been preserved and restored.��

Right:��Red and white oak woodland in De Grassi Point��

The De Grassi Point property is owned in common by the descendants of Sir Edmund Walker (1848-1924). It has been designated an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest and been restored with financial support and advice from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.��

The lecture takes place in 205 Accolade West Building, Sept. 26 at 7pm.

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Debate ran late into the night at this week’s council meeting and drew a series of eleventh-hour deputations in support of freezing development in the foodbelt, a 2,000-hectare swath of farmland stretching north of Major Mackenzie Drive toward the Oak Ridges Moraine.

But councillors ultimately voted 7-6 in favour of a staff-recommended model that would contain 60 per cent of new development within the current urban boundary and allow the rest to spread north.

“I feel bamboozled. I feel that democracy took a black eye,” said , an environmental studies professor at 91��ɫ who has launched an academic alliance for agriculture. The compromise, he said, “is sort of like, OK, we know we’re not doing the right thing, but just [we’re going] to sugarcoat it so you have this little morsel."

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Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

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