Conservation Areas Workshop - Registration now open!

Theme: Conservation in Ontario - Our nature, our adventure, our home
Workshop Dates: October 27-29, 2025
Site Tour #1: September 25, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Bruce’s Mill Conservation Park

3291 Stouffville Road, Stouffville, ON L4A 7X5

Hosted by: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Join TRCA in exploring a place where conservation meets recreation - at Bruce’s Mill. Featuring day use opportunities, numerous recreational activities including a driving range, disc golf course, BMX track, a historical maple syrup festival and home to Treetop Trekking’s zipline and aerial course – Bruce’s Mill has something for everyone. The Site Visit will take participants on a tour of the area and draw attention to several significant enhancements made to park infrastructure over the past several years. Topics will include capital projects and funding, the development of shared community spaces in nature and how to establish partnerships with both public and private organizations to create and care for this space.

Included with your Full CA Workshop Registration

Site-Visit Only Fee: $40 +HST

Site Tour #2: October 27 - Ken Reid Conservation Area [Kawartha Conservation] & Eramosa Karst Conservation Area [Hamilton Conservation Authority]

Land managers from Ontario’s Conservation Areas will come together to participate in the Conservation Areas Workshop from October 27-29, 2025 at Fern Resort in Orillia.

Visit the new Conservation Areas Workshop website for more details: https://www.conservationareasworkshop.ca/

If you have any questions, please email caw@conservationareasworkshop.ca

View recordings of past CA Workshop Webinars here.
Questions or comments about the webinars can be directed to caw@conservationareasworkshop.ca.

WHAT IS THE CONSERVATION AREAS WORKSHOP (CAW)?

For 16 years, conservation professionals working in parks and open spaces, from the 36 member organizations within Conservation Ontario, have been gathering at the Conservation Areas Workshop (CAW). The workshop provides an opportunity and platform for engagement, sharing experiences and best practices, training, and collaboration. The CAW continues to provide an excellent source of knowledge to our participants through virtual opportunities. Workshop attendees come from the fields of conservation and land management, including planners, educators, foresters, park operations and enforcement officers and so many others that help to protect parks and open spaces. We discuss and share the challenges, collaborative efforts, lessons learned, and potential solutions for multi-dimensional issues that affect us all.

Conservation Areas Workshop Steering Committee

Co-chairs: Alicia Powell (NPCA) & Adam Christie (NPCA)
Committee members: David Orr (CVC), Liam Fletcher (HCA), Brandon Good (LHCA), Ryan Mackett (LRCA), Michelle Willows (LRCA), Nekeisha Mohammed (CO), Stephanie Reed (CO), Melissa Creasy-Alexander (KC), Sarah Hutley (NPCA), Brandon Williamson (UTRCA), Mike Bax (ABCA), Al Bradford (CCCA), Adam Boyd (CH),  Zachary Cox (City of Guelph)