Kawartha Highlands Signature Site


Book Description

The intent of this park management plan for Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park is to provide for the protection or enhancement of ecological integrity, while offering quality recreational opportunities for existing and future generations. This document outlines implementation priorities for the plan's elements and summarizes the consultation that occurred as part of the planning process. Specific goals, objectives and outcomes are presented for industrial use, commercial use, resource management, recreation management, operations, marketing and communications, development, and zoning. The management plan will be used to guide park management activities for 20 years.--Includes text from document.










Kawartha Highlands Signature Site


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On April 21, 2005, the Kawartha Highlands Signature Site (KHSS) officially became a park through regulation under the Provincial Parks Act. The Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park is a "natural environment" class park, described as a park which "incorporates outstanding recreational landscapes with representative natural features and historical resources to provide high quality recreational and educational experiences." Although the Kawartha Highlands has now been regulated as a park, it is not yet operational (presently no maintained public facilities or services within the park). The park management plan (a working document intended to guide all development and management activities within a park) will provide direction for the future operation and resource management of the Kawartha Highlands. Ontario Parks is seeking comments from stakeholders, Aboriginal community members and the general public to assist in the preparation of a park management plan for the Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park.--Document.







Algoma Headwaters:


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Algoma Headwaters Signature Site is a 60,000-hectare protected area encompassing three provincial parks and one conservation reserve located about 90 kilometres north-east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. These terms of reference identify the tasks to be accomplished, the roles & responsibilities of the project manager & planning team, the significant planning issues & opportunities to be addressed, and the planning schedule for the strategy that will guide the protection & management of resources, visitor use, and overall development within the Site. It also reviews the planning rationale, the planning history of the Site area, and the features of the planning area and of each of the Site's protected areas.







A Loo with a View


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The toilet - it's small, functional and using it usually involves staring at a door. But for the water closet connoisseur, there are a handful of places where the loo is an area of outstanding beauty. From such fascinating locations as the summit loo on Mount Sinai and Maharajas' thrones in India to safari loos in Zambia and ultra-modern, multi-functional facilities in Japan, this is a collection of the most uplifting vistas from the latrines of the world. Answering the call of nature will take you from the functional to the sublime with the help of this, the ultimate good loo guide.