![]() Notting Hill Lodge is central to the Midlands Meander route, with many exciting and new restaurant options available for you to visit and enjoy. If you are looking for a relaxing Spa getaway, both Brookdale Spa and Fordoun Spa are just a few minutes away - and will cater to your every need. We are located close to renown wedding venues like The Zunguness, Woodridge Estate, Michaelhouse Chapel, The Orchards, Rawdons, Bellwood, Granny Mouse, the Glades, St Ives, and Netherwood, Providence, Brahman Hills, Crystal Barn and The Glades Farm among many others. We offer various accommodation options in King Suites, Twin rooms or Family Cottages. ![]() ![]() Bennett.Notting Hill Lodge is situated between Nottingham Road and Balgowan and is right on the Midlands Meander (R103) just 2km away from Michaelhouse School. She also weaves anecdotal stories and experiences from her life in these environments that adds a personal and meaningful dimension to the narrative." - Sean J. Wooster is uniquely qualified to write authoritatively about the historical land management of watersheds within Western New York she has the requisite knowledge of history, policy, water quality, geomorphic processes, and the integrity of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. " Meander is both interesting and important. It is a portal into the future of river protection and a welcoming must read for anyone who wishes to join the fray." - Elaine Marsh, Cofounder of Friends of the Crooked River (the Cuyahoga) It is a thorough chronical of Great Lakes activism, policy, and issues (solved, festering, and emerging). All who have worked on behalf of water will become immersed in Wooster's dialogue with her own creeks, rivers, and lakes and find there validation for their own efforts. It is a scientific and historic love story. The scope of her narrative centers in the value of the living river's vitality to our own quality of life, health, and spirit. ![]() Margaret Wooster stretches a diversity of disciplines ranging from planetary geology to hydromorphology, from federal and state policymaking to town hall deliberations, from the macroeconomics of water to the irreplaceable financial value of local open space and melds them all together into her irrefutable vision that rivers are a key pillar of community. " Meander is written in captivating personal prose by a mature activist, river scientist, and storyteller. "Making room for rivers-and for a lot of other things we've tried to improve and accelerate and modernize-is a good rallying cry for our beleaguered planet this book will cheer you, and spur you on!" - Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? "Among the few individuals left from the golden era of modern-day environmentalism to write about book about the need to protect and preserve our Great Lakes rivers, who better to do it than Margaret Wooster." - Niagara At Large "Wooster offers a voice of hope, chronicling successes in improving a local watershed while offering suggestions applicable to readers across a much wider geography." - CHOICE ![]() Wooster leaves us with the idea that it is up to us, the people who live along these flows and in their watersheds, to learn as much as we can about these connections and to use our local authorities to "make room for rivers" and protect our planet's circulatory system for future generations. While our management policies often sever them, these connections are key to Buffalo Creek and Great Lakes recovery and resilience. The ecosystem value of physical integrity-or connectivity between upstream and down, surface flow to aquifer, river to land was never fully unpacked. Wooster explores how, on the Niagara Frontier especially, traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous values were suppressed by colonial rules of settlement. She then turns to Buffalo Creek to teach us how the Great Lakes work-from a "hill made of water" to a cut-off oxbow to a buried delta transitioning from two centuries of industrialization. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner, teacher, and Great Lakes activist, Margaret Wooster describes the language, history, and failures of many of our water management policies. Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. ![]()
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