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.

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You Can Give Our Lakes and Rivers a Fighting Chance
You Can Give Our Lakes and Rivers a Fighting Chance
You Can Give Our Lakes and Rivers a Fighting Chance

Climate change is an issue at the forefront of people's minds these days. This article provides some practical ways that you can get involved to reduce the impacts of this issue on us and our native wildlife, from restoring your shoreline to getting involved in community science initiatives.

1 link Love Your Lake
Algae Blog Citizen Science Community Science Fish Habitat Love Your Lake Nature Discovery Backpack Pollinators Resource Species at Risk The Natural Edge Water Quality
Your sneak-peek at our Natural Edge spring planting season!
Your sneak-peek at our Natural Edge spring planting season!
Your sneak-peek at our Natural Edge spring planting season!

Step back into 2021 to see how Watersheds Canada adapted to pandemic conditions to bring the same powerful impacts that we always do to our shorelines. This blog post also discusses why shoreline naturalization is so important.

1 link The Natural Edge
Algae Blog Lake Health Species at Risk The Natural Edge Water Quality
Youth engagement and You
Youth engagement and You
Youth engagement and You

Youth are our future. They are the ones that will be inheriting the world, and bringing with them the values and motivations that we instill in them. This blog post provides an overview of the value of youth engagement, and some ways that anyone can get younger generations to appreciate and become inspired to protect our natural resources.

1 link Ottawa Faith Community Capacity Building Program
Activity Blog Citizen Science Freshwater Stewardship Community Ottawa Faith Community Capacity Building Program Pollinators Resource Youth