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  • Attendees look at the strip-till demonstration at Huron County Ploughing Match in August of 2024.

    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

  • Lake Huron Coastal Centre’s Coastal Conservation Youth Corps is the next generation working to protect Lake Huron's southeast shore.

    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

  • Mike Sklad and daughters at community dam restoration planting at Naftel’s Creek.

    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

  • A photo of McLarty Environmental Study Area.

    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

  • A file photo of a student walking across a dock at a wetland.

    Youth in Grey Sauble are Watershed Guardians

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

  • A poster of the Lake Huron walk of Anishnaabek Grandmothers and Water Walkers.

    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

  • A graphic for the film documentary Plastic People.

    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

  • Restoration Supervisor Shannon Millar plans Cedar in the buffer around a wetland.

    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

  • A file photo of cover crops.

    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

  • A photo of a rain garden.

    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

  • A photo of a boy swimming.

    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

  • A photo of sunflowers and other cover crops.

    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

  • Drink tap water in a reuseable container - it is less expensive and reduces toxic plastics.

    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

  • A logo for Huron County Clean Water Project.

    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

  • A file photo of Lake Huron.

    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

  • Some members of the Maitland Conservation stewardship team.

    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

  • Helping to protect Lake Huron's southeast shore are Coastal Conservation Youth Corps.

    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 were reported, in July, in Ausable River and Lake Huron. (Photo by Jennifer Powell)

    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

  • A poster for July 16 and August 15 coastal resiliency workshops.

    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

  • At the Scott Drain, north of Blyth, Maitland Conservation and local landowners have spearheaded several innovative approaches that demonstrate the potential of municipal drainage design.

    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

  • A scenic photo of Bayfield.

    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

  • A photo of buffer in Maitland watersheds.

    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

  • A photo of McLarty Environmental Study Area

    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

  • A photo of volunteers helping at sunset beach cleanups.

    What's on your beach?

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

  • A photo of beach stairs by a shoreline.

    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

  • A photo, by the lake, of someone with their refillable water bottle.

    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

  • Coastal Conservation Youth Corps participants.

    Thirty youths in Coastal Corps

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

  • Water sampling along Lake Huron with local landowner participation.

    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

  • A photo of Lake Huron shoreline.

    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

  • Ross Wilson, Water and Soils Resource Coordinator, with water level gauge.

    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

  • Dr. Justina Ray

    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

  • Tree planting is one of the stewardship activities taking place in Pine River watershed.

    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

  • A new shoreline video series provides information on shoreline themes.

    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

  • Enjoy Lake Huron but know if and when it is safe to swim.

    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

  • An opportunity for coastal youth committed to protecting Lake Huron.

    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

  • Green infrastructure reduces sediment in municipal drain.

    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

  • Projects in priority Healthy Lake Huron areas are supported by recently-announced Great Lakes funding.

    Ontario invests $2.5 million for Great Lakes

    The Ontario government is investing more than $2.5 million in 19 new projects to protect the health of the Great Lakes. Some of those projects are in Healthy Lake Huron watersheds.
    Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2021

  • Types of Rural Green Infrastructure

    Rural Green Infrastructure

    Rural Green Infrastructure (RGI) is a series of methods, structures and practices that can help reduce stormwater impacts and build resiliency across rural landscapes.
    Posted: Friday, August 27, 2021

  • Art meets science meets education meets local action.

    Art promotes protecting watershed

    Thousands of visitors to Arkona Lions Museum and Information Centre will know more about watersheds, and protecting them, thanks to the installation of a piece of art called A Watershed of Clay.
    Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2021

  • Visit local public health websites and social media channels for information on safe swimming best practices and, where available, water quality information.

    Safe swimming information

    Visit local public health for information on water quality, best practices for safe swimming.
    Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2021

  • Make the best possible decisions, using PLATO, to reduce Phosphorus loss

    PLATO helps you make best Phosporus decisions

    Did you think Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher? If you did, you would be right. But PLATO is something else as well. It is the Phosphorus Loss Assessment Tool for Ontario (PLATO).
    Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2020

  • Supporting stewardship.

    Stewardship Clusters Project

    Here are the six Healthy Lake Huron Stewardship Clusters Project Reports.
    Posted: Tuesday, October 6, 2020

  • Why does soil health matter to you?

    Why soil health matters

    It takes all of us to build soil health. In this video we asked "Why does soil matter?' We got an overwhelming response.
    Posted: Thursday, August 20, 2020

  • Jen Christie shares why water quality of Lake Huron is important.

    Water quality and coming home

    Hear Jen Christie's perspective on why water quality is important to her and why it should matter to everyone in the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay watershed.
    Posted: Thursday, August 20, 2020

  • Ross Wilson, MSC; PAg; CCA-ON; Water and Soils Resource Coordinator, Ausable Bayfield Conservation, talks about the many benefits of cover crops and 'service crops.'

    Cover Crops 101

    Find out about the many benefits of cover crops and 'service crops' in this new video.
    Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020

  • Build soil health, protect water, reduce erosion, plant cover crops!

    Cover Crop Innovations in Huron County

    There have been a number of cover crop innovations found throughout Huron County over the past few years. Here are a few highlights from 2020, in this new video.
    Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020

  • This still-image map shows the stops along the virtual 360-degree tour of the Scott Demonstration Project.

    Enjoy 360-degree tour of Scott Demo Project

    There are fewer in-person tours these days but here is a chance to tour the fascinating Scott Demonstration Project, virtually, in full 360 degrees!
    Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2020

  • Great job, Pine River Watershed network!

    Pine River network helping keep Great Lake great

    The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) has accomplished many great things over the years. The Network is featured in the Saugeen Watershed Community Highlight and the Healthy Lake Huron – Clean Water, Clean Beaches Partnership.
    Posted: Friday, July 24, 2020

  • Help keep Lake Huron safe for surfers and everyone else who relies on the lake for drinking water, habitat for fish and aquatic species, and for recreation.

    Heathy Lake, Healthy Surfers

    Help to keep Lake Huron water clean for drinking water, aquatic species and ... for surfers.
    Posted: Friday, July 24, 2020

  • The concern of the community combined with an agency response is helping to protect Rainbow Trout in St. Joseph and area.

    Working together at St. Joseph fish ladder

    A new video outlines how the interest of the local community, and the response of Departments, Ministries, and agencies, resulted in protection of Rainbow Trout.
    Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020

  • Ross Wilson updates us on the #60inchcorn cover crop project in second video.

    Cover Crops in Sixty Inch Corn Update

    Certified Crop Advisor and Professional Agrologist Ross Wilson, of Ausable Bayfield Conservation, provides a June 2020 update on use of #covercrops and #60inchcorn in this trial south of Clinton, Ontario, Canada.
    Posted: Friday, July 3, 2020

  • Help protect the waters that sustain our recreational fishing.

    New catch-and-release fishing video

    Help keep our Great Lake and rivers healthy for fish and other living things for future generations. Watch a new fishing video.
    Posted: Friday, July 3, 2020

  • Watch this video, at link in article below, about fighting Canada's worst invasive plant along Lake Huron's southeast shore

    Help fight Canada's worst invasive plant

    Phragmites can have devastating effects on our wetlands and Lake Huron coastline. Learn more about Phragmites and the work that is being done to stop the spread of this invasive species.
    Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

  • Help to keep this Great Lake great. (Photo by Brian Lasenby/Shutterstock)

    Coastal Corks and Pints

    From reducing cardboard and plastic packaging to reusing wastewater, to planting trees for each shipped order, to providing spent grains to local farmers for livestock feed, many of these breweries, wineries and cideries are reducing their footprint.
    Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2020

  • Help keep Lake Huron healthy - here's how.

    Your actions help to protect your lake

    People across Lake Huron's southeast shore are taking action to protect water quality. Jo-Anne Harbinson, Manager of Stewardship Services at Saugeen Conservation, shares some ways you can be part of this work to keep our Great Lake great.
    Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2020

  • Slow stormwater down.

    Protecting life, property, water quality

    Slowing down stormwater is part of the solution.
    Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2020

  • Try this DIY infiltration test ...

    Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Water Infiltration Test

    Ever wonder how to test water infiltration on your property? This quick test will let you compare different areas of your property or identify locations with poor infiltration.
    Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020

  • Earthworm middens are good for soil and for water

    Earthworm middens - good for soil and water

    Do you know what an earthworm midden is? Do you know what it means for the health of soil and the quality of water?
    Posted: Thursday, June 4, 2020

  • Topics of Great Lake interest at summer speaker series

    Great Lakes topic in summer speaker series

    Partners in the Healthy Lake Huron - Clean Water, Clean Beaches initiative are among the fascinating list of presenters in a summer speaker series hosted by Lambton Heritage Museum as part of the visit of Canada’s Waterscapes travelling exhibition.
    Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2019

  • Jen Pate encourages us to love our Great Lakes.

    Love Your Great Lakes on Saturday, August 10, 2019

    A day to celebrate our Great Lakes, called Love Your Greats, takes place on Saturday, August 10, 2019.
    Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2019

  • Lake Huron water levels are the highest they have been in 20 years

    Lake Huron water levels highest in decades

    " ...beginning-of-April levels of lakes Michigan-Huron and Erie were the highest they have been in over 20 years for this time of year ..."
    Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2019

  • Financial, technical support to help improve stormwater management on urban and rural properties

    Helping improve stormwater management

    The Urban and Rural Stormwater Improvements (URSI) for Lake Huron project will complete nine stormwater improvement projects over three years (2018-2020) in Ausable Bayfield watersheds along Lake Huron’s southeast shore.
    Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2018

  • Government of Canada national climate actions include work along Lake Huron’s southeast shore

    Canada funds work to protect, improve Lake Huron

    Some of the 58 new EcoAction Community Funding Program projects across Canada are taking place along or near the southeast shore of Lake Huron.
    Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2018

  • People in watersheds along Lake Huron's southeast shore are helping to keep our beaches and water clean.

    Local beach cleanup took place September 8

    Community members in the Lambton Shores priority watershed area continued to show their commitment to keeping Lake Huron clean when 20 volunteers picked up garbage at Ipperwash Beach on Saturday, September 8, 2018.
    Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2018

  • A farm business can access up to $20,000 in 2018 for eligible practices and projects around croplands, grasslands, shorelines, stream banks, wetlands, and woodlands through the Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program (SARFIP).

    Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program returns

    The Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program (SARFIP) is back for 2018. Eligible best management practices and projects encompass activities around croplands, grasslands, shorelines, stream banks, wetlands, and woodlands.
    Posted: Friday, May 11, 2018

  • Thousands of water quality projects have been completed with support of landowners, community groups, and the County of Huron.

    Thousands of water quality projects in Huron

    Huron County landowners and community groups have, with support of Huron Clean Water Project, completed close to 2,700 protects to protect local water quality. The value of the projects is more than $10 million. That's good for water and the economy.
    Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2018

  • Thousands of plastic items, and more than 1,000 pounds of garbage, have been kept out of Lake Huron - thanks to volunteers and other partners of the shoreline cleanup in Goderich.

    Volunteers keep thousands of items out of lake

    More than 175 volunteers collected 1,072 pounds of trash, on Saturday, April 21, 2018, from the Main Beach in Goderich and the banks of the Maitland River.
    Posted: Friday, April 27, 2018

  • Be aware of natural hazards along shoreline.

    Be aware of erosion, bluff stability

    Lake levels are the highest they have been in years. These higher-than-average lake levels, combined with rain, high winds and wave action lead to erosion at the base of the bluffs and an increase in gully erosion in some areas.
    Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

  • Lake Huron is not at record levels - but water levels are above average, and that can add to erosion.

    Lake Huron water levels above average

    A March 2018 Monthly Water Level Bulletin, from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada, said water levels in the Great Lakes are above the long-term average for this time of year and above the level of Chart Datum.
    Posted: Friday, April 20, 2018

  • One of the rain gardens at Bayfield's Pioneer Park.

    Rain gardens are helping to protect Lake Huron

    There has been considerable interest in rain gardens since demonstration gardens went in at Pioneer Park in Bayfield, said Hope Brock, Healthy Watersheds Technician with Ausable Bayfield Conservation.
    Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018

  • There are four places you might consider planting trees.

    When it seems there is no land left for trees ...

    Landowners plant tens of thousands of trees locally; Funding may be available to help cover some of the costs.
    Posted: Friday, February 2, 2018




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