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Cover crops, strip tillage demonstrations

Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association held a Huron County equipment and crop demonstration at the Huron County Ploughing Match in August 2024.
Posted: Monday, August 19, 2024

Youth Corps helps Lake Huron

The Lake Huron Coastal Centre's Coastal Conservation Youth Corps program wrapped up two fantastic weeks of hands-on environmental work along Saugeen Shores and Kincardine in July of 2024.
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Maitland Conservation restoring fish habitat

Maitland Conservation has worked with local landowners to remove two private fish barriers and restore aquatic habitat. Both sites had online ponds which were restored to wetlands to improve water quality.
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Study area provides place to learn about nature

The McLarty Environmental Study Area is located in the Pine River Watershed and it is open to the public to enjoy the great outdoors.
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Youth in Grey Sauble are Watershed Guardians

Watershed Guardians is a new environmental education initiative.
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Water Walkers to walk around Lake Huron

Anishinaabe-kwe grandmothers are walking 1,767 kilometres, in 30 days, around Naadowewi-gichigami (Lake Huron) to honour and protect the freshwater of the Great Lakes.
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Plastic People film crew visits Lake Huron

Residents living along Lake Huron's southeast shore, including citizens from Bayfield and area and students from the South Huron area, are among the people who were interviewed for a new documentary about plastic pollution.
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Landowner restores acres along Maitland River

'It has always been our vision to take care of the environment, as much as growing crops and livestock,' said Kate Procter.
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2024

Cover crop grants for farmers in Lambton Shores

St. Clair Conservation and Ausable Bayfield Conservation have an incentive program available for farmers planning to plant cover crops this year.
Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Rural and urban stewardship is piece of the puzzle

You are an important piece of the puzzle in the work to protect Lake Huron. This is true whether you live or work in the countryside or in a village, town or city.
Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Safer swimming tips for 2024

Visit websites and social media for local public health to find out more about swimming risks from pollution and how to reduce risk by swimming more safely.
Posted: Thursday, April 18, 2024

Huron Clean Water Project provides project grants

There is a total of $500,000 in available funds, in 2024, for water quality projects by Huron County residents, landowners, and community groups.
Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Crew tapes Plastic People doc in Bayfield area

Society's addiction to plastic use has negative impacts on rivers, lakes, oceans and people; a local citizens' group and local youth are some of the people working to be part of the solution.
Posted: Monday, November 27, 2023

More than 3,600 water quality projects completed

In almost 20 years, Huron County's Clean Water Project has resulted in more than 3,600 water quality projects with a total project value of more than $14 million.
Posted: Friday, September 1, 2023

Protecting Lake Huron's fish

We all need to be part of the solution in taking the positive actions that are needed to protect our Lake Huron fish species.
Posted: Friday, September 1, 2023

Landowner helps with Maitland reforestation

The participation of a local landowner has made it possible for Maitland Conservation to plant more than 12 acres of trees and shrubs.
Posted: Friday, August 25, 2023

Conservation Youth Corps help clean up Lake Huron

Young people taking part in the Coastal Conservation Youth Corps say they feel they've made an impact on Lake Huron's shoreline.
Posted: Friday, August 25, 2023

Dead fish discovered along Lake Huron

Local residents reported dead fish in Port Franks and area and in Lake Huron in July.
Posted: Friday, August 25, 2023

Maitland Conservation creates Coastal Resiliency Initiative

Maitland Conservation is hosting a Coastal Resiliency Workshop Series in July and August, 2023.
Posted: Friday, June 16, 2023

Tour of innovative municipal drain projects

Almost 50 municipal drainage superintendents and drainage engineers took part in a May 2023 tour of innovative nature-based solutions, such as wetlands, for municipal drains.
Posted: Monday, May 29, 2023

Second decade for Healthy Lake Huron

Healthy Lake Huron entered its second decade of work, under the HLH umbrella, in 2022. Protecting Lake Huron is as important as ever.
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2023

100 per cent funding for stream buffers

Maitland Conservation can help landowners access 100 per cent funding for buffering watercourses in the Maitland, Nine Mile and Eighteen Mile River watersheds.
Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Trees, wetlands, education at study area

The McLarty Environmental Study Area is located on Bruce Road 6/Side Road 20 in the Township of Township of Huron-Kinloss. It is open to the public to enjoy the great outdoors.
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

What's on your beach?

Sunset beach cleanup finds some surprises.
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Learn more about life along the shoreline

St. Clair Region Conservation Authority (SCRCA) is providing ways for people to learn more about living with erosion.
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Microplastics in 80 per cent of lake samples

Coast Watcher citizen scientists collected 24 samples at the beginning and end of the season and found microplastic pollution in 83.3 per cent of those samples.
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Thirty youths in Coastal Corps

The Coastal Conservation Youth Corps hosted more than 30 young people.
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Water monitoring along Lake Huron

Partners in Canada and United States working together to collect information on nutrients entering the Great Lakes.
Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2022

U.S. scientists, local researchers work together

A local conservation authority has worked side by side with American researchers studying phosphorus nutrient loading in Lake Huron and its impact on lower Great Lakes such as Lake St. Clair and (through the Detroit River) Lake Erie.
Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2022

Water, species monitoring informs restoration work

Low oxygen concentrations, nutrient enrichment, sediment loads, and invasive species can all impact aquatic species.
Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2022

Healthy Watersheds, Healthy People, Wildlife

The link between protecting natural areas and preventing pandemics received only modest attention as Canadians struggled with the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19). This linkage is really at the heart of the issue, however.
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Working with Pine River landowners to plant trees

The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network, and participating local landowners, continue to work together to protect this watershed along Lake Huron's southeast shore.
Posted: Friday, July 29, 2022

New shoreline video series

A new video series offers information on shoreline processes; living with erosion; what you need to know before planning to build along the shoreline; and what you need to know before buying property along the shoreline.
Posted: Monday, June 20, 2022

If you swim in Lake Huron practise safe swimming

Follow local public health channels to have the best information when deciding if and when to swim in Lake Huron.
Posted: Monday, May 16, 2022

Opportunity for coastal youth

The Coastal Conservation Youth Corps (CCYC) is a program for youths between 14 and 18 years of age to learn about coastal issues and opportunities.
Posted: Friday, May 13, 2022

McFadyen Drain Green Infrastructure Case Study

This case study (McFadyen Drain) is one of two Green Infrastructure case studies posted, in February 2022, on the Healthy Lake Huron (HLH) - Clean Water, Clean Beaches website.
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2022