2021 EcoPark Explorer and Cootes to Escarpment Fall Festival

In Fall 2021, budding nature explorers experienced local biodiversity through a hybrid of virtual workshops and pop-up booths in Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System partner owned properties. 

Thanks to support from TD Friends of the Environment Fund ecologists, botanists, and educators from EcoPark System partner agencies hosted virtual workshops on basic plant identification, birding, and backyard biodiversity every Tuesday or Thursday. Pop Up Booths with experts were held throughout the EcoPark System on weekends.

You can watch the virtual workshops here:

Learn plant ID basics with Royal Botanical Gardens Herbarium Curator and Field Botanist Nadia Cavallin.

Learn about birding basics with The Hamilton Naturalists’ Club Bird Study Group Director, Jackson Hudecki

Learn how to design a native landscape on your property with Conservation Halton's Landowner Outreach Technician, Erin Mallon.

Learn about the benefits of managing invasive species at home and in your community with Jeff Stock, Hamilton Conservation Authority's Watershed Steward Technician.

Learn about trail etiquette and wild life hotspots around Hamilton and Burlington with Mara McHaffie and Adam Brylowski, Bruce Trail Conservancy's Ecologist and Manager of Conservation and Trail.