Welcome to the Watersheds Canada Resource Library!
Here you will find a comprehensive collection of free educational resources dedicated to helping rural shoreline property owners, families, municipalities, lake groups, and educators protect their lakes and restore natural habitat. Explore guides, best practices, case studies, lesson plans, and tools to become a freshwater protector. All resources are freely shareable so please include them in a newsletter, on social media, or printed for a community booth!
Funding support thanks to Peterborough K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, and S.M. Blair Family Foundation.
Dragonflies as a Bio-indicator of Water Health
Biomonitoring involves surveying macroinvertebrates (often the larval form of insects) that are sensitive to environmental changes, immobile, and widespread. Such …
Eastons Creek Brook Trout Enhancement Project - Watersheds Canada
Funding from Cabela’s Canada Outdoor Fund and the LUSH Charity Pot has made it possible for the planting and caging …
Economic Value of Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure involves building with nature, incorporating green elements into our city landscape for ecological, economic, and social benefit. This …
Finding Optimism this International Youth Day
Many youth these days struggle with ecoanxiety: that is, the worry of climate change and it's impacts on our society. …
Fireworks and Freshwater Ecosystem Health
Fireworks are dazzling pyrotechnic displays enjoyed by many across the world. However, these stunning celebrations can come with massive impacts …
Fish Habitat Projects: LUSH Impact Report, 2018-2020
Watersheds Canada, in partnership with local organizations, worked to protect and enhance freshwater fish habitats. Six fish habitat projects were …
Get to Know your Pollinators
Pollinators are a type of insect or animal that helps plants reproduce. Without them, we wouldn't have our beautiful wildflower …
Go with the Flow: Rivers and Streams
Given that rivers and streams are always in motion, these freshwater ecosystems are fundamentally different in form and function to …
Help Wildlife Raise Their Young on Your Property
Wildlife face increasing pressures to find suitable habitat and food sources near human development: there are increased pressures from flooding, …