Publications

Shoreline Vegetation Stewardship Manual

This manual is intended for landowners participating in the Natural Edge Shoreline Naturalization Program. While native vegetation will be largely maintenance-free after two to five years, the first few years will require occasional watering or pruning to help the new vegetation establish. This manual provides landowners with instruction on maintaining their new vegetation to ensure a healthy shoreline buffer for year to come – Restoring the Ribbon of Life!                                                              Shoreline Vegetation Stewardship Manual

How to Engage Community in a Lake Plan

The process of developing a lake stewardship plan relies on full involvement and participation of the community on and around the lake. The process is community-driven, and the resulting plan is a community plan. Recounting the experience of conducting a lake plan for Mississippi Lake can offer useful insights into how to best engage people in such a process. How to Engage Community in a Lake Plan

 

Fish Habitat Enhancement Protocols

Before starting your own project you may want to consult our step by step protocol on In-Water Brush Piles, available here: In-Water Brush Bundle Protocols.
It includes everything you will need to know, from planning and developing the project through to carrying it out successfully.
 
 
 
 

Walleye Spawning Bed Enhancement Protocols

Before starting your own project you may want to consult our step by step protocol on Walleye Spawning Bed Enhancement in Ontario, available here Walleye Spawning Bed Protocols. It includes everything you will need to know, from planning and developing the project through to carrying it out successfully.
 
 
 
 

BioBlitz Protocols

This manual will provide guidance and suggestions to best maximize the efficiency and value of these events through proper data collection and data sharing. The resources provide include species checklists, data entry forms, registration forms, information for landowners, and media and communications documents. As each BioBlitz is unique in its purpose, goals, challenges, and limitations, the advice and resources used during each event will be dependent on the organizers and participants.  A guide for Planning Community BioBlitz Events in Eastern Ontario

Fact Sheets

 

What is a Watershed?

A watershed is an area of land that catches rain and snow, and allows it to drain into a stream, river, lake or seep into the ground as groundwater. Learn more: What is a Watershed?
 
 
 
 
 

Algae

Want to learn more about algae? Check out our Fact Sheet: Algae in Ontario                  Photo Source: Willem van Aken, January 1989, Science Image, http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/4628

 

 

The Benthic Zone

Interested in the life within the substrate? Read our Fact Sheet: The Benthic Zone        Photo Source: Macrobenthics, January 2016, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthos

 

 

 

The Riparian Zone

Known as the “Ribbon of Life”, the riparian zone is an area between the upland zone and the shoreline. Learn more from Fact Sheet: The Riparian Zone