This Giving Tuesday, help us accomplish even more!
Over the past year, your support has made a remarkable difference across the Nottawasaga Watershed. With our team’s expertise and your generosity, we’ve enhanced conservation areas, stabilized vital waterways, restored fish and wildlife habitats, inspired kids to conserve our land and water, and much more!
This Giving Tuesday, we’re aiming to raise $10,000 so we can amplify these successes in the year ahead.
With your help we can continue:
Maintaining and improving our conservation areas
Educating the next generation of environmental stewards
Restoring and protecting our rivers and streams
Monitoring the health of our waterways and the creatures that live in them
Every donation gets us closer to our $10,000 goal!
Here’s what your donations helped us accomplish last year
Safer and cleaner conservation areas
Our Lands Department worked tirelessly to make NVCA’s conservation areas welcoming and safe for everyone:
- Removed hazard trees and storm debris
- Installed clear and helpful signage at conservation areas
- Maintained and created parking lots so more people can explore our watershed
- Cleared litter and waste to keep natural spaces clean for all to enjoy
- Inspected and maintained our boardwalks and lookout platforms
- Acquired three properties totaling just over 30 hectares within Minesing Wetlands. These properties provide significant ecological benefits to the larger land preservation landscape
Restoring and protecting our watershed
Here’s a sample of what our Stewardship team was able to do to restore our waterways and protect the species that call them home:
- Stabilized 45 meters of bank along Carruthers Park with granite boulders and plants to protect the parking area and access road from erosion
- Realigned and stabilized banks along Sheldon Creek to reduce erosion
- Created oxbow wetlands to support wildlife diversity
- Fenced off waterways to keep livestock out, for healthier waterways and herds
- Conducted extensive analysis to find ways to reduce water temperatures and enhance habitability for our brook trout populations
- Planted trees along our creeks and rivers to maintain cool, clear waters
Fostering a new generation of environmental stewards
This year, NVCA expanded education to better serve our watershed and its communities:- Introduced French-language programming
- Continued important programs such as Enviroscape, Microplastics, and Yellow Fish Road
- Welcomed a record number of Camp Tiffin students, fostering a love of nature in even more young minds
Monitoring the health of our watershed
Our Watershed Science team spent the year gathering and analyzing data about the health of our rivers, streams, groundwater, wetlands, and the creatures that call them home.
- Developed a Climate Change Discipline Monitoring Strategy to track how climate change impacts the Nottawasaga Watershed
- Launched a pilot project to monitor the impacts of climate change in the plant communities on NVCA properties
- Conducted stream health monitoring with activities like electrofishing, stream temperature tracking, stream geomorphology, and monitoring of water insects
- Established a water level monitoring project at Cranberry Marsh to protect and manage this important urban wetland
With your donation, we can do even more!
Imagine what we can accomplish with your support in the coming year. Your Giving Tuesday gift will help us protect lands, restore habitats, conduct groundbreaking research, and inspire the next generation of environmental stewards.
Who to Contact
Communications Team
