10 Good Reasons Why Bronte Provincial Park Should Not be a Golf Course

1. Bronte Creek has the highest water quality of any major stream in the Greater Toronto Area
2. This Environmentally Sensitive Area (as designated by Halton Region) provides a link in migratory routes for both waterfowl and raptors, providing a north-south route, which link the shoreline of Lake Ontario to the Niagara Escarpment woodlands
3. Bronte Creek Valley is a provincially significant Life Science Area of Natural and Scientific Interest.  It possesses 14 separate plant communities, and contains several nationally and provincially rare plant and animal species.
4. Bronte Creek is a spawning route for Coho and Chinook salmon and rainbow trout, and provides a spawning area for small mouth bass.
5. The Bronte Creek Provincial Park is the best remaining example of prairie vegetation along river valley rims and bluffs in the natural region that stretches from Pickering to Ancaster.
6. With the exception of High Park, the prairie and related communities at Bronte Creek Provincial park are the most significant in the natural region (Site District 7-4) in terms of size, number of prairie/ savannah species, number of provincially rare and rare-to-uncommon species, and representativeness.
7. According to the MNR's Natural Heritage Information Centre, all tallgrass prairie areas are considered extremely rare in Ontario, and therefore are of considerable conservation interest.
8. It has taken 8 years and thousands of volunteer hours to partially restore 60 acres of prairie on a farm near Long Point.
9. The Greater Toronto Area has 142 golf courses.
10. The Greater Toronto Area has only one provincial park: Bronte Creek!

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