The On the Don e-newsletter is a quarterly online publication that celebrates the Don River watershed and the efforts to rehabilitate its waters and lands.

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Watershed Plans are used for the management of human activities and natural resources within a watershed. They are intended to inform and guide municipalities, provincial and federal governments, TRCA, nongovernment organizations, and private landowners as they update their policies and practices for environmental stewardship.

The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority approved the Don River Watershed Plan - Beyond the 40 Steps (2009) at Authority Meeting #7/09, held on September 25, 2009. Copies of the Authority Resolution #A149/09 and the final watershed plan, are available below for download.

Authority Resolution #A149/09

• Authority Resolution: Approval of Don River Watershed Plan

Beyond Forty Steps (2009)

• Beyond Forty Steps Executive Summary and Introduction to the Implementation Guide
• Beyond Forty Steps
• Implementation Guide

Forty Steps to a New Don (1994)

• Forty Steps to a New Don Executive Summary
  
• Forty Steps to a New Don

• Air Quality - Memo on Current Conditions (2009)

• Aquatic System (2009)

• Baseflow and Water Use (2009)
• Cultural Heritage (2009)

• Fluvial Geomorphology (2009)

• Geology and Groundwater Resources (2009)

• Hydrology/Hydraulics and Stormwater Management (2009)

• Land and Resource Use (2009)

• Nature-based Experiences (2009)

• Surface Water Quality (2009)

• Terrestrial Natural Heritage (2009)

Report Cards & Progress Reports provide and evaluation of watershed health and an ongoing call to action.

• Forging a New Deal for the Don (2006)
• Breathing New Life into the Don (2003)
• A Time for Bold Steps (2000)
• Turning the Corner (1997)

Walk the Don Trail Guides are a series of self-guided interpretive walks located throughout the watershed in Toronto and York Region. Click here to download a trail guide.

Toronto and Region Conservation

• CTC Source Water Protection

• The Conservation Foundation of Greater Toronto

• Toronto Remedial Action Plan (RAP)

Don Watershed Municipalities

• Town of Markham

• Town of Richmond Hill

• City of Toronto
• City of Vaughan
• York Region

Other Don Watershed Focused Groups

• East Don Parkland Partners
• Friends of Glendon Forest
• Friends of the Bartley Smith Greenway
• Friends of the Don East
• Pomona Mills Park Conservationists
• Richmond Hill Naturalists
• Task Force to Bring Back the Don
• The Taylor Massey Project

Other Organizations of Interest

• Ducks Unlimited Canada
• EcoSpark
• Evergreen
• Live Green Toronto
• Ontario Nature
• Ontario Streams
• Pollution Probe
• Save the Oak Ridges Moraine