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Being a Landowner of waterfront property brings an added level of responsibility with an added level of aesthetic. A shoreline Restoration Project is one of the most responsible and long term solutions to a number if waterfront issues. Our Nature Centre will provide free consultation with interested landowners to explore the best practices to be used.

To protect the water quality and shoreline integrity vegetation is the most efficient solution. We offer only truely native plant stock that has been reared in our own on-site greenhouse and surrounding nursery beds. We can offer a wide variety if beautiful and effective shoreline stabalizing plants from wildflowers to trees. One often overlooked benefit to introducing native plant gardens and buffer zones it the lack of maintenance and energy inputs they require. Native plants have evolved and addapted to the environmental conditions that exist in our region. The bottom line is that these species of plant will live where they are planted because they are designed to live there. No intense fertilizing or tending is required to maintain a healthy native plant community.

The area to be restored is plotted and when possible a project plan can be made to detail the arrangement of the stock to be planted. At times these planning efforts become redundant as the substrate is too rocky and/or irregular to adhear to a projected layout. The exciting part is that each restoration site is different than every other.

We focus on removing invasive species, introducing native vegetation to increase the biodiversity of the plant community, and at times reinforcing the shoreline with bio-engeneering tequniques. Our efforts result in more stable shorelines that are many fold more effective at filtering nutrient load from run off and thereby limiting the supply of these nutrients to the aquatic plant life that so often becomes a problem in our shallow Kawartha Lakes.

Our Restoration Ecology Projects are implemented with qualified staff and volunteers to ensure a speedy and effective implementation. All of our previous projects act as demonstration sites and any interested landowner is welcome to contact our Projects Coordinator and arrange a visit to one or more of these sites.

2008 Projects

MacGleary

Happy Days

Anderson

2009 Projects

Cowan's Bay

Sevink

R Haven Resort

Mooring's Marina