Marsh Monitoring virtual presentation
Register on Eventbrite at https://marshmonitoringbqrap.eventbrite.ca
to receive the presentation link.
Naturalist and columnist, Terry Sprague presents this information
session explaining how citizen scientists help protect local wetlands
and
wildlife by monitoring for birds and frogs.
Greening Your Grounds
Learn how to build your own rain garden at this webinar. The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan and Lower Trent Conservation will walk you through the process of building your own rain garden. Starting with choosing the correct site, and size of garden for your property, to the final stage of selecting native plants that will thrive in your rain garden.
Learn if you are eligible for a grant of up to $500 for native plants, soil, compost, gravel, and mulch used to establish a functioning rain garden. Grant funding is for the urban areas around the Bay of Quinte.
Jason Jobin, BQRAP Environmental Technician, Lower Trent Conservation
613-394-3915 ext 242 or jason.jobin@ltc.on.ca
Email Jason Today!
Christine Jennings, BQRAP Environmental Technician, Quinte Conservation
613-968-3434 ext 106 or cjennings@quinteconservation.ca Email Christine Today!
Soil - Making it work. Patrick
Lynch will discuss Forages, Rotations and Tillage. Where does the soil go? Jeff
Meyer explains about the newest techniques in mapping and measuring soil loss. Also,
learn about BQRAP grants and programs.
View the webinar HERE
This is a great reminder about how this pandemic started, it was first and foremost an environmental crisis.
Restoring Areas of Concern boosts economic development
This report covers
the successful restoration of 10 Area of concern. “
The story told in this report, and by these Great Lakes
communities, documents and illustrates the very tangible, as well as often
intangible benefits of this cleanup to the people of the Great Lakes states and
provinces. It provides a powerful case for sustaining the flow of cleanup
funding that has quite literally revived communities.” Executive summary.
