Who is MTM
Monitoring the Moraine Project Partners
Monitoring the Moraine is a collaborative project between Citizens'
Environment Watch (CEW), Save the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition,
and Centre for Community Mapping (COMAP). Each partner brings
different and complementary skills and experience to the project.
Citizens’ Environment Watch empowers people in Ontario
to pay attention to their local environment. CEW provides education,
equipment and support to monitor local ecosystem health, and opportunities
to participate in informed community decision-making and active
stewardship. CEW has experience working with volunteers who are
keen to undertake community based environmental monitoring as
part of their efforts to protect and restore the environmental
integrity of the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Save The Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition (STORM) is focused on protecting
the ecological integrity of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Since 1989,
STORM has been working at the local and regional levels to ensure
that municipalities make good planning decisions that respect
the environmental significance of the moraine and that take into
account its ecological and hydrological functions. STORM’s
years of experience in policy and planning on the Oak Ridges Moraine
and its well-developed network of local and regional contacts
were critical to the campaign that saved (legislatively) the Oak
Ridges Moraine.
The Centre for Community Mapping is an assembly of designers
and researchers, whose goal is to provide accessible and affordable
informatics tools and support to community-based organizations.
COMAP’s main focus is to enable communities to communicate
information through a sustainable, shared infrastructure, a common
map platform for visual exploration and contribution of community
information. The common map will have natural and cultural heritage
applications, as well as land use management policy monitoring
applications, serving communities that care for the Oak Ridges
Moraine.
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