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. Funding support thanks to Peterborough K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, and S.M. Blair Family Foundation.
A Home for Fish: The Benefits of In-Water Woody Debris
Fish require shelter just like we do, in the form of in-water woody debris. It affords them protection from predators, access to macroinvertebrates to feed on, and shelter from the hot summer sun. This blog explores the many benefits of building up in-water woody debris, provided by the brush bundles deployed by our Fish Habitat program each year.
A Love Your Lake success story: City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario
This article, submitted by the Nepahwin Lake Watershed Stewardship Group and Long Lake Stewardship Committee, highlights the success of the delivery of our Love Your Lake program in the City of Greater Sudbury. After identifying a need for action through the program, the community-wide push for change that followed was swift and impactful - read about it here!
A Message of Hope from Coast to Coast: Celebrating Terry Fox Day
Follow Terry Fox on his epic run throughout Canada, traversing watersheds and Canadian shield landscapes. Learn of his impact on the Canadian public and his legacy that remains to this day, told through the poetic writing of one of our past interns.
A Physically Distanced Love Your Lake Field Season
COVID-19 changed everything, including we socialized, how we travelled, and even how we assessed shorelines! Read about how staff from our Love Your Lake program overcame the challenges posed by this global pandemic to bring the same action and outreach to waterfront property landowners in Central-Eastern Ontario.
A Regulatory Guide to Achieving Environmental Net Gain at the Waterfront
Currently, very few municipalities mention Environmental Net Gain in their existing policies around waterfront development proposals. This package outlines what an Environmental Net Gain is and why they are a critical consideration when protecting waterfront health.
A Summer Spent Surveying
Love Your Lake is our shoreline assessment program delivered in partnership with the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Step into the field with one of our past shoreline assessors to find out what a day in the life is like!
A site visit through The Natural Edge
This video walks you through step-by-step what a site visit from one of our 'The Natural Edge' program staff entails. Learn what makes our tried and true methods so effective for bringing back life onto our shorelines, with benefits for you and for native wildlife.
A watershed moment: When perfect strangers connect on the values of conservation
Read how a happenstance conversation between Watersheds Canada's executive director Robert Pye and a cottage owner opened the door to an enriching sharing of ideas about freshwater stewardship. Learn about the value of collaboration, lake leadership, and building up resilient fish habitat in our beloved freshwater.
Activity #6 Follow In Their Footsteps – Nature Discovery Backpack
This activity lets you be an animal tracker! Find out how to identify animal tracks for several different species.