York Region’s Groombridge family has donated two 50-acre land parcels to The Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust to protect the area from development.
The donation of the conservation easements, located north of the Oak Ridges Moraine in the Township of King, was made possible through a long-standing partnership agreement between the region and the trust to protect environmentally significant properties on, or near, the Oak Ridges Moraine from development in perpetuity.
The land was donated by the families of Doug Groombridge and Earl and Margaret Groombridge.
The properties contain a portion of the provincially significant Hall Lake/Kennifick wetland complex.
They contain a diverse, regenerating and mature mixed forest with sugar maple, white ash, American beech, red oak, American elm, paper birch, black cherry and ironwood mixed with white pine, eastern hemlock and white cedar trees.
York Region teams with the trust to protect 100 acres bordering Oak Ridges Moraine.
York region - Family donates 2 parcels of land to ORM Trust.
