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Paula Davies and Stephen Smith lead a walk along the Todmorden Mills’ Wildflower Preserve Trail, a site that is abundant with dead trees and home to a variety of plants and animals. This walk explores dead trees in various stages of decomposition and the different life forms that are supported by them, including wildflowers and Toronto’s unofficial mushroom species, Dryad’s Saddle.

These little flowers are usually the first clues that warm weather has arrived in Canada and Spring is well on its way. What most don't realize is they are highly invasive and even poisonous.

Forty years ago, you would hardly recognize the city of Sudbury - the surrounding landscape was completely dead and totally black. Fast forward to today, Sudbury has totally restored its ecology and natural beauty. Sudbury has come back to life, reforestation and years of seeding and planting have paid off.

About 87% of Toronto's Environmentally Significant Area's (ESA's) are found in ravines, which makes Toronto's ravine system very important to our city's ecology. Unfortunately, invasive species are out-competing the native vegetation, compromising ravine ecology.

The program involves collecting old growth forest tree seeds, planting in seed boxes over a three-year period, when they will be ready to transplant in the ravine and nearby areas.