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What’s happening to the American Eel?
Last week, the Canadian Wildlife Federation helped lead an effort to transport 400 juvenile American Eels from the St. Lawrence River and release them in the Ottawa River near Hawkesbury.
Studying Urban Runoff South of the Border
Canada’s waters are international. Our streams and rivers do not pass customs; our watersheds do not care about international laws. They flow from the highest peaks, pass both Canadian and…
Love Your Lake is Naturalizing Shorelines
With funding from DFO’s Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program, shoreline property owners involved in the Love Your Lake program have been naturalizing, or re-planting, their shorelines with native plants. Love…
Oceans to rivers and back again: Why the Ottawa River’s endangered American eel needs healthy rivers and a healthy Atlantic Ocean
With financial support from Ottawa Wavemakers, in July 2015, Ottawa Riverkeeper and Canadian Wildlife Federation teamed up to host an Eel awareness day on the shore of the Ottawa River…
The Montreal Sewage Dump
Recent news about the City of Montreal plan to dump 8 billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River is a call to action for all Canadians to…
Love Your Lake Training Begins!
Last week-end we were involved in Love Your Lake training along with our program partner, Watersheds Canada. We were in the beautiful Algonquin Highlands with some students from Trent University.…
Chaudiere Falls Bathymetry work with University of Ottawa
As the eel project has been wrapping up throughout the fall, we have had a couple finally field days below Chaudiere Falls dam complex completing bathymetry work. Bathymetry is the…
It Won’t Be Long!
[PHOTO CREDIT: Thinkstock] It won’t be long until millions of sockeye salmon return to the Adams River and what a spectacular sight it will be! With 2014 being a dominant…
