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Watershed Trust and the OMB: We have Appeared Many Times before the OMB
Watershed Trust and the OMB: We have Appeared Many Times before the OMB By Don Kerr We have appeared before the OMB as Participant, Party and Special Participant. This is how we have operated with these three levels. Party or Participant. The OMB Rules and Procedures allow status only as a [...]
Townline Creek Monitoring
Townline Creek Monitoring By George Powell Through our partnership with Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) and the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority (GSCA), we continue our water quality monitoring program at four locations along Townline Creek and at one location on Silver Creek. The purpose of the monitoring is to understand the [...]
Silver Creek Wetland: Communicating our Vision for the Future
Silver Creek Wetland: Communicating our Vision for the Future By Don Kerr Last Sandpiper in the Silver Creek Wetlands Area. Photo by Cameron Powell For 20 years, The Watershed Trust has been reacting to proposals and applications for development in the Silver Creek Wetland area. We expected that sometime [...]
Red Meat
Red Meat By Don Kerr from an article in Le Monde Diplomatique April 2013 For several decades, the food industry has persisted with an approach that has damaged small farmers, biodiversity, soil and water resources without managing to feed the planet - in 2011, a billion people did not have enough [...]
Profile: Bill Sloan
Profile: Bill Sloan Watershed Trust is very fortunate to have Bill Sloan as our volunteer accountant. Bill first moved to Collingwood in 2001 to work as the Treasurer for the Blue Mountain Village Association at Intrawest. Part of the reason for taking the job was the attraction of living in the [...]
Low Water Levels in Georgian Bay
Low Water Levels in Georgian Bay Low lake levels at Sunset Point, Collingwood, Photo by George Powell A new report from the International Joint Commission By George Powell Low water levels in Georgian Bay clearly are negatively impacting local boaters, marinas and shoreline property owners. Near shore off Sunset [...]
President’s Message
President’s Message By Norm Wingrove I hope everyone enjoyed the winter and is looking forward to summer. As always, the Directors, the Watershed Action Group (WAG) Committee and the Education Committee have been busy. The Be The Change film series season five (“BTC5”) finished on April 17 at the historic Gayety [...]