2.  Provide many social, environmental and economic benefits.  They provide 10,500 hectares of recreational space, improve air quality, control flood waters, and attract tourism.

3.  Protect against the dangers of flooding.  Provide a habitat for wildlife  Help clean the air.  Provide an recreation for those in dense urban areas.

4.  Glen Stewart is an 11 hectare ravine with a wide diversity of plant and bird life.  Fed by clean ground water from Ames Creek.  The ravine forest is dominated by red oak and red maple.

5.  Sandy soil and steep slopes make this ravine extremely vulnerable to erosion from off trail usage. Please stay on the trails.  The soil in some areas of the slopes has become packed and hard like pavement, and as a result the soil can no longer absorb water.  Illegal dumping.

6.  maintaining long-term health of native trees and promoting regeneration  mitigating soil erosion and compaction around trees  promoting diversity of vegetation and species  restoring and enhancing floodplain vegetation  stabilizing steep and unstable slopes  managing invasive species

7.  New elevated boardwalk  New staircase  New Protection Fencing Installation  Reconstruction of the stairs  New Protection Fencing Installation  Invasive Species Management  New Construction of Retaining Walls