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.
Plastics in our Waterways webinar with Jake Wilson
The document links from our webinar, "Plastics in our Waterways". It lists 22 sources on the topic of plastics and …
Precipitation Projections webinar by Alex Cadel
This is a handout from our webinar, "Precipitation Projections: Understanding the Latest Climate Data". Analyzing trends in precipitation variables can …
Rain Smart Neighbourhoods webinar with Becca Robinson
This is a handout from our webinar, "Rain Smart Neighbourhoods: Beautify your landscape while protecting water quality and reducing flood …
Salt Pollution in Ontario: Exploring Challenges & Cross-Sector Solutions
This is the handout from our webinar, "Salt Pollution in Ontario: Exploring Challenges & Cross-Sector Solutions". Millions of tonnes of …
Salting our Freshwater Ecosystems webinar with Lauren Lawson
This is a handout from our webinar, "Salting our freshwater ecosystems: Understanding consequences of road salt use in Canadian watersheds". …
Saving our Turtles! webinar with David Seburn
This is a handout from our webinar, "Saving Our Turtles!". Canada is home to eight species of native freshwater turtles. …
Stronger Together webinar by Ducks Unlimited Canada and Farms at Work
This is a handout from our webinar, "Stronger Together: Supporting Farm Stewardship Through Collaboration". The East Central Farm Stewardship Collaborative …
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. …