Publications

Attached below is the petition to our Provincial and Federal Governments so that they may take action in preventing the Asian Carp from invading our Great Lakes. We would love to collect 2000 signatures (we presently have a little over 900) and have them mailed out to us a few days before May1st so that we can have them available to present to our political leaders on that date! Please print, sign, distribute, and mail back to: Sierra Club Ontario, 550 Bayview Avenue, suite 402. Toronto, ON, M4W 3X8

This report is a progress report on the research funded by Sierra Club carried out from May to October in 2011. The three main projects share an overarching theme that examines threats to coastal biodiversity because of changes in the hydrologic regime of Lakes Huron and Erie. The first project provides an initial glimpse of how northern pike utilize wetland and nearshore habitat in Tadenac Bay and the surrounding region. The second is a comparison of home ranges of the Blanding's turtle (species at risk) in two protected areas (Beausoleil Island of Georgian Bay Island National Park and Rondeau Bay Provincial Park) that have very different landscape features and experience different stresses. Since this is the first documented study of a Blanding's population on an island, a sub--‐project has been carried out to determine if turtles select for specific habitats before, during and after nesting as has been suggested by the literature. The third project examines the effects of rain effects and agricultural practices on the water quality of first--‐order streams in the Beaver River watershed. Click on the pdf attachment below to see the 14 pg. McMaster University report