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.
Seed and Genetic Diversity
Genetic diversity in plants is crucially important; a large enough gene pool is necessary to ensure offspring have the best …
Shoreland resilience under a changing climate
Climate change is a threat can can cause real devastation to our waterfront properties that we hold so near and …
Shoreline Summer
Step out into the field with one of our past shoreline assessors with our Love Your Lake program! Hear about …
Species-Specific Resources From the Invasive Species Centre handout by Watersheds Canada
This document appears to be a collection of fact sheets and posters for various invasive plant species. The species listed …
Supporting Canadas freshwater this Rivers to Oceans Week
This blog post was written in celebration of Rivers to Oceans Week in 2021, an annual celebration that recognizes the …
Sustaining our Freshwater - A special World Water Day presentation
Protecting your community’s freshwater and shoreland areas is very important but it can be hard to know where to start. …
Thank you for a great year!
This blog post was written as a thank you to all the staff, board, volunteers, and financial supporters that supported …
The Benefits of Vegetated Riprap
Riprap is a type of shoreline structure that uses piles of rocks to strengthen the shoreline against erosion. While it …
The Dynamic Coastlines of the Laurentian Great Lakes – Part 1
Reaching up to hundreds of kilometers wide and hundreds of meters deep, it is perhaps not surprising that the Laurentian …