Welcome to the Nature & Environment Section

We hope our story starters and resources are helpful to you.  Please follow our Terms and Conditions.

A compilation of Muskoka-related research, statistics and links relating to our natural heritage.

Story Starters:

Protecting Muskoka’s trees, rocks and water

Muskoka is a young community, even by North American standards, with white settlement going back only 150 years or so. Travelogues from the early days didn’t exactly make you want to hop the next stagecoach North.

People and nature living in balance

If you ever wondered where in Muskoka the Group of Seven set up their easels to so powerfully interpret what was before them, Georgian Bay Country’s 30,000 Islands is a great place to start.