The Oak Ridges Moraine
Fauna
Trail
Flora
Location
Formation
Water
Conservation
Green Corridor
Birds
Amphibians
Reptiles
Garter Snake
Frogs
Meadow
Mammals
Skunk
Racoon
Opossum 
White Tail Deer
Red Fox
Coyote
Beaver
Spring Flowers
Trees
Trout Lilly
Trillium
White Pine
White Birch
Sugar Maple
Red Oak
American Elm
Eastern White Spruce
American Beech
White Spruce
Basswood
Black Cherry
Eastern Hemlock
Kettle Lakes
Rivers
Formed when an ice blocks were covered by sediment. When the ice block melted it created a depression that either filled with water and created a kettle lake, or didn't and created a dry kettle depression instead.
Lake St. George
The ORM Height of Land divides two Watersheds.
The Shcomberg and Holland Rivers flow to Cooks Bay
Kettleby Creek flows to Cooks Bay
East Humber Creek eventually flows to Lake Ontario
The Oak Ridges Trail is 4.2 KM long.
Trail Markers
White Blazes indicate the way of the trail. white blazes stacked on eachother indicate a sharp turn in the trail.
Blue Blazes indicate a separate trail that usually leads to something enjoyable or valuable. These trails are usually dead ends.
A Green Corridor is a pathway connecting animals from one place to another that is otherwise separated by human structure.
The ORM is a Green Corridor that allows many species to migrate across Southern Ontario.
“Developers wantin’ more and more; cuttin’ off migration corridors, salamanders crossin’ highways soon go splat; isolation of each natural habitat” - Mike Ford.
ORCMP
Threats
Importance
Urban Development/Sprawl
Political boundaries and regional interests
Aggregate Extraction
Natural Habitat
Hydrological
Aggregate Resources
Archaeological Resources
Agricultural Uses
Social/Recreational
An Environment first plan approved April 22, 2002.
Maintain, improve or restore ecological and
hydrological integrity.
Maintain a continuous natural landform.
Compatible land and resource uses and
development.
Development within existing urban settlement
areas.
Continuous recreational trail.
Public access.
Extends 160 km from Niagara Escarpment
to Peterborough area.
Varies from 3 to 23
km in width
Starting point of 65 rivers flowing to L.
Ontario, Rice L., and the Kawartha Lakes
Source of drinking water for 250,000
people
Ice melt from the Niagara Escarpment flowed into the western boundaries of the moraine, wherein conduits beneath the ice expanded to form a west-to-east passage between the main Laurentide Ice Sheet and a mass of ice in the Lake Ontario basin.
One part of the trail is the Toronto Carrying Place which is a 45 KM protege linking Lake Ontario to Simcoe and Geogian Bay. On the ORM it is crossed at Weston Road.
Woodland
