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  • Update: Prescribed Burn in High Park After 11:30 a.m.This Morning

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada Media Advisory April 14, 2011 Media briefing for today’s prescribed burn in Toronto’s High Park Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation will undertake a prescribed or “controlled” burn in High Park today, April 14. A prescribed burn is a deliberately set and carefully controlled fire that burns low to the ground and consumes…

  • Prescribed Burn in High Park Will Protect Rare Forest

    Did you know that High Park has a rare forest of black oak woodlands and savannahs? This rare forest needs your tender loving care (TLC) and tender loving protection (TLP)! The latter comes as a prescribed (or “controlled”) burn in order to kill off competing vegetation, enrich the soil and promote growth and germination of…