An interesting initiative has begun just outside of a relatively small city just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A 500 year project whose main concern is to restore an area of forest to what it may have been like if left untouched for 500 years. The old growth forest project in an initiative of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre, the Guelph International Resource Centre and the Ontario Farmland Trust.
There was a time when southern Ontario was covered in dense forest. Giant Maple trees and Oak trees would have …