Education
Here are just some of the ways Ausable Bayfield Conservation can create awareness about soil, water, and living things, according to the Conservation Strategy developed by the community:
Educate
- People about safety around high water in the springtime
- Landowners and watershed residents about planting of native trees, shrubs and grasses
- Young people through programs such as the Sylvan Conservation Program
Promote
- Positive actions that are working
- Good forestry practices to landowners, municipalities
- Well and septic improvements, fencing projects, runoff and erosion control, windbreaks, manure storage
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation and programs like Commemorative Woods
- Ethical practices for fishing and for hunting on permitted lands
- Alternatives to harmful chemicals
Encourage
- Best management practices to preserve soil, improve water and air quality, preserve water quantity, increase habitat, protect species-at-risk, and mitigate and adapt to changes in our local climate
- Proper disposal of hazardous wastes such as batteries, paints, and chemicals
- Reduced use of harmful chemicals
- Positive individual actions through stewardship guides for farm, shoreline, and rural non-farm residents
- Protection of Lake Huron-Georgian Bay Watershed and support for the Great Lakes Charter
- Responsible actions on conservation lands, such as using off-road vehicles only in permitted areas