Fall 2025 Activities

Staff and external advisory committee on a site visit in November 2026We’ve officially started drafting the long-term Comprehensive Stewardship Plan for the Lake Simcoe Conservation Preserve! The entire process will take about a year, and the final product will provide implementation, management and maintenance guidance for the next 20 to 25 years.

A Comprehensive Stewardship Plan considers a variety of factors, including: community needs and how the Preserve can meet some of those needs; financial feasibility, including an understanding of the resources required to implement and maintain the recommendations outlined in the plan; and, ensuring natural heritage values, and significant species and spaces are all protected through a two-eyed seeing approach.

Two working groups have been created to help guide this process: an Internal Project Team comprised of Conservation Authority staff; and an Advisory Committee with Municipal, Regional, First Nations, community and sector group representatives, and local community members.

The external Advisory Committee met once in the fall of 2025. They also toured the property to better understand what the lands truly looks and feels like.