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.
This blog post celebrated the launch of our Freshwater Stewardship Community in 2022. It discusses the many benefits provided by collaboration and community-building, and even provides some speaker highlights from the first year of this …
Light pollution is excessive or misdirected artificial light. It is stealing our starry nights, posing substantial threats to wildlife and our own well-being, and wasting energy and money. This has spurred a global push for …
This is a handout from our webinar, "The Importance of Wetland Plants for Dragonflies and Damselflies". Odonata, including dragonflies and damselflies, are ancient insects with a biphasic lifecycle. They spend part of their life in …
Executive director Robert Pye shares his thoughts and personal anecdotes on our shared appreciation for birds, present in many facets of our life. This blog post was written for a past opportunity to win a …
More and more, doctors are prescribing time outside as a means to alleviate a host of afflictions. Being outside can bring so many benefits to us, including providing us with vitamin D (which many people …
This is a handout from our webinar, "The Memory of the Mud: Paleolimnology reveals the impact of climate change on modern cyanobacterial bloom occurrence". Paleolimnology is a multidisciplinary science that uses aquatic sediments to track …
Mike and Margo are two volunteers from the Thousand Islands Area Residents Association (TIARA) in Ontario. In this video, they share why they helped with a recent The Natural Edge restoration planting and why they …
Plastic has become central to the way humans package, ship, and consume products. This includes everything from electronics, to medications, to baby toys. Plastic was—and still is in some contexts—considered a miracle product which is …
Riparian areas are very important and valuable habitat for land-based and water-based wildlife. The shoreline area includes the first 30 metres of land around a lake or river. Native wildlife species like birds, mammals, insects, …