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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Fish Habitat 10
Freshwater Stewardship Community 58
Freshwater, Plants, and People 20
Lake Links 13
Love Your Lake 54
Nature Discovery Programming 39
Ottawa Faith Community Capacity Building Program 27
Planning for our Shorelands 19
The Natural Edge 103
Uncategorized 107

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10 successful years for Love Your Lake
10 successful years for Love Your Lake

This blog post was written in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of our shoreline assessment program, Love Your Lake. …

1 link Love Your Lake
20 years of Watersheds Canada
20 years of Watersheds Canada

Watersheds Canada was proud to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2022. This blog post, written by executive director Robert Pye, …

1 link Love Your Lake
2021 Year-end Celebration Event
2021 Year-end Celebration Event

This webinar was originally recorded on January 19, 2022. Join our staff for this one-hour webinar to see all that …

1 link Freshwater Stewards…
5 Webinars To Introduce You To Freshwater Management
5 Webinars To Introduce You To Freshwater Management

Freshwater systems are vast and complex, but at the same time, so incredibly important for us and for wildlife. Gain …

1 link Freshwater Stewards…
5 Webinars to Introduce You to Freshwater Fish Conservation
5 Webinars to Introduce You to Freshwater Fish Conservation

Fish conservation is an important objective not only for the species themselves, but for the entire freshwater ecosystems in which …

1 link Fish Habitat
6 ressources éducatives et gratuites en Français pour apprendre sur la nature tout en restant chez soi.
6 ressources éducatives et gratuites en Français pour apprendre sur la nature tout en restant chez soi.

This blog post provides 6 resources in French designed to help younger generations connect with nature. The resources include content …

1 link Uncategorized
A Home for Fish: The Benefits of In-Water Woody Debris
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, …

1 link Fish Habitat
Bank Swallows webinar with Heather Polowyk
Bank Swallows webinar with Heather Polowyk

This is a handout from our webinar, "Bank Swallows: Life history, threats, and ways you can help". Bank Swallows are …

1 file, 1 link Freshwater Stewards…
Become A Community Scientist
Become A Community Scientist

This activity emphasizes the importance of submitting animal or plant observations online to help scientists and nature groups track populations …

1 file Nature Discovery Pr…