Tag: rare savannah species

  • Prescribed Burn Alert: High Park Today, April 14

    Torontonians, please be aware that Toronto will undertake a prescribed or “controlled” burn in High Park today, April 14, 2011. A prescribed burn is a deliberately set and carefully controlled fire that burns low to the ground and consumes dried leaves, small twigs and grass stems, but does not harm larger trees. The City of…

  • 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…