{"id":1201,"date":"2012-07-05T19:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:51:04","slug":"love-your-lake-shoreline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/love-your-lake-shoreline-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Lake Shoreline Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been voting for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fuellingchange.com\/main\/project\/331\/Love-Your-Lake\" target=\"_blank\">Love Your Lake Shoreline Project<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Last week I had the opportunity to do some training on a lake in Renfrew County for this project and saw first-hand what the shoreline technicians will be looking for as they perform their shoreline property assessments.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be classifying shorelines; looking at different structures such as decks, boat launches, boat slips, and sheds; also checking out docks; retaining walls; erosion; aquatic cover; and aquatic substrate. Besides noting what property owners are doing well they will also be providing some\u00a0restoration recommendations that will help improve the health of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, shorelines can be classified into four categories: natural, regenerative, ornamental and degraded. Below are two\u00a0examples of different shoreline types:<\/p>\n<p>While you can&#8217;t see the entire shoreline, this shoreline was classified as 90% ornamental, 10% regenerative<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380764805\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ornamental Shoreline\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/shorelines\/ornamental.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This was an undeveloped section of shoreline so it would be classified as 100% Natural<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380764806\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Natural Shoreline\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/shorelines\/natural-shoreline.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You can see how great having a portion of your shoreline like this would be for fish and other wildlife!<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380764807\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mergansers\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/shorelines\/mergansers.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And I just couldn&#8217;t resist taking a picture of these mergansers. Now, that&#8217;s a lot of young!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Have you been voting for the Love Your Lake Shoreline Project? Last week I had the opportunity to do some training on a lake in Renfrew County for this project&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[705,172],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lakes-rivers","tag-canadas-waters","tag-love-your-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}