The Ice Age and Origins of the Humber Watershed
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
Introduction
Overview of the
Humber River
Global and Continental Glaciation
Land Form Development in North America
Geological History
of the Great Lakes
Development of the
Oak Ridges Moraine
Geology of the
Humber River Watershed
Ecology & Recreation
Early Inhabitants
Maps of the
Humber River Watershed
Photo Gallery Humber River Watershed
Kettle Pond in the Oak Ridges Moraine - King Twp. Area
Introduction
Ecology of the Oak Ridges Terminal Moraine.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oak Ridges Moraine lies in Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the headwaters of sixty-five rivers and streams. It has a wide diversity of woodlands, wetlands, watercourses, kettle lakes, kettle bogs, and significant flora and fauna.
It is one of the few remaining continuous green corridors in southern Ontario; it remains thirty percent forested and is one of the last refuges for forest birds in southern Ontario.
The moraine provides habitat for a wide variety of plant and animal species, over seventy of which are threatened or endangered in Canada, including the West Virginia White Butterfly, Jefferson Salamander, Red-shouldered Hawk, and American Ginseng.
The moraine's rare wetlands support plants and insects more typical of northern Ontario. The remnants of tallgrass prairie and oak-pine savanna in the eastern portion are globally threatened ecosystems.
