Call for Volunteers – Water Testing

Copeland Forest Friends are beginning a new initiative this summer to monitor watershed health using a citizen science approach.  We have room for a few volunteers who will be assigned a permanent site along a stream in Copeland Forest to monitor.  No experience is necessary
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Copeland Friends AGM Saturday Feb 20th

Please join us for the Annual General Meeting and User Group Meetings of Copeland Forest Friends.  The event will run from 1 to 4 pm at W.R. Best Elementary School on the Old Barrie Road east of Dalton.  Doors open at noon. The deadline to
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Copeland Forest Friends event launch

We’re Launched!

On our first official day as an organization, we raised $3,000 and took in 96 memberships. Not bad for an unseasonably cold and windy day that had a few of us reaching for our parkas.

On our first official day as an organization, we raised $3,000 and took in 96 memberships. Not bad for an unseasonably cold and windy day that had a few of us reaching for our parkas.

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Copeland Forest Friends launch

Join Us for the Launch of Copeland Forest Friends

Support a New Community with the Forest at its Heart. Join us for the launch of the Copeland Forest Friends Association and find out how you can support our efforts to preserve and protect one of the last tracts of Deep Woods forest in Ontario.

Support a New Community with the Forest at its Heart. Join us for the launch of the Copeland Forest Friends Association and find out how you can support our efforts to preserve and protect one of the last tracts of Deep Woods forest in Ontario.

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trail riding in Copeland forest

Copeland Forest Friends Official Launch

Tethered balloon rides will give you the chance to view Copeland Forest from a whole new angle when The Copeland Forest Friends Association holds its official launch Oct. 3rd with a barbecue and other recreational activities. The event represents a precedent-setting partnership with the Ministry
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Sharp-lobed Hepatica in bloom

Copeland Forest Spring workshops

Many people leave Copeland Forest with a lot of unanswered questions: “I’ve never heard that bird song before, I wonder what it was?”; “Are any of these plants rare?  Do they have any medicinal uses?” People who can answer those questions are becoming as rare as
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