Date: Tuesday, July 18
Speakers:  Deb Doherty and Morag McKenzie, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust
Topic: The Impact of Growth on our Watershed:

The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation was formed in 1994 to protect natural areas in Collingwood and the Blue Mountains from development pressures of many kinds. It has been instrumental in preserving and protecting our remaining wild places.

Deb Doherty has been a member of Collingwood Town Council from 1996-1999 and 2014 to the present. Her focus and priorities are growth and sustainability, environment and climate change, affordable housing and active transportation. She joined the Board of the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation in 2018.

Morag McKenzie is an award-winning case study writer and highly skilled interviewer and researcher. She is a lifelong environmentalist and actively leads and volunteers in a wide variety of different charities. She currently sits as Co-Chair of the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Communications Committee, sharing the Chair with Deb Doherty.