From Wastelands to Plantations to Natural Forests

The Amazing Journey Of Ontario’s Former Blowsand Areas

Due to the government encouraging planting of conifers decades ago, the blowsand areas are now healthy, thriving forests.

If you could go back in time a hundred years and tour southern Ontario, you might be shocked to see expanses of desert along the way. Yes, desert!

Where did these desert areas come from? And why aren’t they there anymore?

The remarkable transformation of southern Ontario’s deserts, known as blowsand areas, is one of the more interesting ecological success stories you will hear in this province.

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