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The Healthy Lake Huron – Clean Water, Clean Beaches Partnership invites you to take part in the Lake Huron Coastal Centre's Clean Up the Coast events in Grand Bend on Saturday, July 29, 2023 and in Kettle Point on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
Also, we invite you to take part in events for Love Your Greats Day on Love Your Great Lakes weekend (August 11-13, 2023) including a soil health bus tour, garbage clean-ups, and a Stormwater Stroll.
Make every day Love Your Greats Day!
#HealthyLakeHuron #LandtoLake #PieceofthePuzzle #LoveYourGreats
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Pine River Watershed Initiative Network plans for 2024 season
The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) is planning for its 2024 season.
The Network welcomes projects, from local landowners, such as berms, tree planting, cattle
crossing and wetlands.
“Landowners allow us to help them manage in-ground projects by working together to secure
funding and to co-ordinate contractors,” according to the latest issue of the PRWIN newsletter. “It is a great opportunity.”
Private landowner participation is vital to the success of improvements in the Pine River
watershed, according to PRWIN.
If you have a project in mind, please contact pineriverwin@yahoo.ca
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Soil health bus tour, garbage clean-ups, Stormwater Stroll are planned for Love Your Greats Day weekend
This year (2023), there is a whole weekend of activities for Love Your Greats Day, which is held the second Saturday of every August.
Events planned for the August 11-13, 2023 weekend begin with a soil health bus tour on Friday, August 11; garbage clean-ups and sorting on Saturday, August 12; and a Stormwater Stroll on Sunday, August 13.
Learn more:
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Lake Huron Coastal Centre invites you to join efforts to Clean Up the Coast and make a difference on Lake Huron shorelines
The Lake Huron Coastal Centre, in partnership with Georgian Bay Forever, Keep the Bruce Clean and Green, Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, and local municipalities, invites volunteers to participate in the upcoming shoreline clean-up events along the shores of Lake Huron in July 2023.
With your help, the Coastal Centre hopes to engage more than 700 volunteers to remove 1,000 pounds of litter by the end of summer.
The first Clean Up the Coast events in July took place in early to mid July at the following dates and locations:
- Tobermory: Saturday, July 8, 2023
- Kincardine: Saturday, July 15, 2023
- Southampton: Sunday, July 16, 2023
Thanks go to the many volunteers who cleaned up a large amount of garbage. Keeping litter off our beaches, and keeping plastics and other pollutants out of Lake Huron, is so important.
The next Clean Up the Coast events are:
- Grand Bend: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Kettle Point: Sunday, July 30, 2023
With your support, Lake Huron Coastal Centre plans to accomplish their shared mission of improving the health of Lake Huron for our communities and local wildlife.
Each piece of litter removed contributes to a healthier ecosystem, cleaner communities, and safer habitats.
"Let's work together to Clean Up the Coast and protect the natural beauty of Lake Huron," organizers say.
To learn more, and to RSVP, please visit:
The Lake Huron Coastal Centre is a non-government charity dedicated to supporting a healthy ecosystem through education, restoration, and research.
To learn more visit:
The Coastal Centre also invites you to follow @coastalcentre on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Clean Up the Coast would not be possible without generous funding from the Great Lakes Local Action Fund and Sunset Community Foundation.
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Funding support for wetland enhancement in Ontario includes Lake Huron watersheds
The Province of Ontario has announced almost $7 million in funding, through Ontario’s Wetlands Conservation Partner Program, to create partnerships with 14 conservation organizations, restore 2,400 acres of wetlands, and complete 100 new wetland projects.
This funding support includes wetland restoration and enhancement in some Great Lakes watersheds.
The funding support makes it possible for St. Clair Region Conservation Authority to restore about 67 acres of coastal wetland habitat in the McLean and Bates conservation lands within Lake Erie watershed adjacent to Rondeau Bay by managing invasive species.
The Ontario funding makes it possible, in watersheds along Lake Huron's southeast shore, for Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority to work with local participating landowners to restore and enhance 21 wetlands, covering approximately 57 acres. The projects help to increase volume of water storage, improve wetland connectivity, manage invasive species, plant native plants to improve habitat and biodiversity, provide water filtration, carbon sequestration and reduce erosion in the Lake Huron watershed.
The Georgian Bay Biosphere, in partnership with Shawanaga First Nation, will remove invasive species, including Phragmites and Purple Loosestrife, over 24 acres of wetlands, in the Georgian Bay Biosphere.
Funding to the Nature Conservancy of Canada will make it possible to complete 13 wetlands restoration and enhancement projects across southern Ontario, covering approximately 153 acres. These projects support coastal wetlands along Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, Turkey Point in Lake Erie and Eastern Lake Ontario. The projects include management of invasive species, to expand and restore wetlands to mitigate flooding, and to plant native species to enhance biodiversity.
Restoration of nine wetlands, by the Thames Talbot Land Trust, includes management of non-native invasive species such as Phragmites, Reed Canary Grass, Garlic mustard, Buckthorn and other non-native shrubs.
These are just some of the recently announced projects that will benefit Lake Huron.
Wetlands are described as the ‘kidneys of the landscape.’ They absorb, store and filter water before it reaches nearby waterways. Wetlands provide ecological goods and services that have environmental, economic and social benefits.
Wetlands are lands that are wet for all or some of the year. They support water-loving plants such as Cattails, Sedges, Rushes, Blue Flag Iris, Willows, and Dogwoods. Wetlands filter water and remove contaminants. Wetlands benefit water quality and also water quantity. Wetlands capture water when there’s too much water on the landscape during flooding and runoff and release water gradually when water is needed during times of low water and drought. Wetlands also capture carbon. Wetlands provide habitat for waterfowl and for more than 600 species of plants and animals. They are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems in the world.
The Province of Ontario is investing up to $6.9 million in approximately 100 local conservation projects to restore and enhance wetlands across the province. This funding will help 14 conservation partners restore more than 2,400 acres of wetlands in Ontario to improve water quality, help prevent flooding and build climate change resiliency.
To learn more about the Province of Ontario's wetland enhancement initiative visit:
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Don't forget to visit the Healthy Lake Huron website!
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