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.
4 new resources to help protect our wetlands this World Wetlands Day
World Wetlands Day celebrates this wonderful, incredibly important ecosystem type and advocates for its conservation across the globe. This blog …
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 …
Celebrate World Wetlands Day with these 4 Resilient Shorelines Resources!
Wetlands are important natural features that provide critical habitat for endangered and at-risk species. They also benefit people and our …
Connected Waters webinar with Lina Azeez
This is a handout from our webinar, "Connected Waters: Restoring connectivity and function to salmon habitat impacted by flood infrastructure". …
Continuing Momentum from Ontario's Municipal Elections: One Year Later
There was a particular focus on climate change and freshwater health in Ontario's 2022 election. This blog post, written a …
Controlling Canadas worst invasive plant species using bio-control webinar by Claire Schon
This is a handout from our webinar, "Controlling Canada’s ‘Worst’ Invasive Plant Species". Phragmites is an invasive plant species that …
Creating Healthy, Natural Habitats for Freshwater Fish webinar with Melissa Dakers
This is a handout from our webinar, "Creating Healthy, Natural Habitats for Freshwater Fish". There are over 155 species of …
Economic Value of Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure involves building with nature, incorporating green elements into our city landscape for ecological, economic, and social benefit. This …
Help Wildlife Raise Their Young on Your Property
Wildlife face increasing pressures to find suitable habitat and food sources near human development: there are increased pressures from flooding, …