Saturday October 1: See the Salmon Run Event in Collingwood

Major salmon migration event includes nature walk with conservation experts, gourmet meal, FREE kids lunch and entertainment

From the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust

The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust is holding a major event in Collingwood from 10am to 3pm on Saturday, October 1st. See the Salmon Run is a chance for people of all ages to see hundreds of Chinook Salmon fight their way up Silver Creek on their annual spawning run.

This free event (see poster: wt-salmonmigration-poster-11×17-final-web) will include artists, musicians, and a gourmet lunch put on by Men with Knives ($15), as well as local brews by the Collingwood Brewery ($5) and a FREE kids’ lunch. Elephant Thoughts and the Nottawasaga Conservation Authority will be there with a huge inflatable salmon, turtle and gut hut, with interactive games for children, as well as giant inflatable balls called zorbs that they can climb into and bounce around.

The centrepiece of the event is a 20-minute self-guided nature hike through the woods along Silver Creek. Adults and kids can stop at 4 locations where conservation experts from various organizations will be on hand to add to your knowledge of fish migration and spawning, and stamp kids’ fish ‘passports’.

The event will be held at the Brady property, 589903 Grey Road 19, just south of Osler Bluff Road. It’s a free event that’s open to the public and promises to be both educational and a whole lot of fun for all ages. See the Salmon Run is part of the Watershed Trust’s year-long Silver Creek Stewardship Initiative, a conservation effort funded in large part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation as well as Kolapore Fish Hatchery.

Participants are requested to RSVP and buy lunch tickets at www.Eventbrite.ca.

About The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation

The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation (Watershed Trust), Ontario’s first watershed trust, was founded in 1994. During the past 22 years, the Watershed Trust has dedicated itself to the task of protecting the Silver Creek and its Wetland, one of the region’s most valuable natural features. The Silver Creek Watershed offers $10.5 million worth of non-market ecological services to the province each year.

The mandate of the Watershed Trust is to “develop awareness and promote partnerships that are required in order to successfully implement watershed planning in the Blue Mountain watersheds”.

BMWTF is a grassroots, all-volunteer organization supported by donations and fundraising. The organization exists in order to raise awareness of and protect watercourses in the Collingwood/Blue Mountains area including Silver, Townline, Batteaux and Black Ash Creeks; the Beaver and Pretty Rivers; and Indian Brook.

For more information, contact Rebecca Ferguson at 519 994 2480 rebeccaferguson@watershedtrust.ca, or visit www.seethesalmon.ca for further details.