Healthy Bay • Healthy Community

Volunteers are needed for the Community Wildlife Monitoring Program Frogs and Birds are important indicators of the health of our wetlands and they need your help. Naturalist Terry Sprague will show you how easy it is to monitor frogs and birds in your favourite marsh. You can choose from two programs – FrogWatch Ontario or the Marsh Monitoring Program. The annual workshop on Monday, March 8, 2010 at Quinte Conservation. Click here for more information Garry Kirsch photo

Habitat Enhancement Program Looking for Participants
As part of our Habitat Enhancement Program, the Bay of Quinte RAP staff wants to talk to landowners, who participated in our 2008 survey, on the benefit of naturalizing their shorelines, and help draft a plan that is specific to the property. In the new year, there will be information sessions and workshops to help facilitate shoreline projects. For more information click here.

Summer/Fall 2009 Newsletter Quiz Answers Test your Knowledge Quiz 1. 25%, 2. One, 3. $300, 4. 3,800, 5. 3,700, 6. 18%, 7. 45%, 8. 750,000, 9. 1%, 10. 8.5 http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/e_quickfacts.htm Community Wildlife Monitoring Program The two species monitored as part of CWMP are: Green Frog and Pied-billed Grebe

Our Mission
The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan emphasizes an ecosystem approach to restoring and protecting the Bay. This approach recognizes the complex interrelationships between water, land, air, and all living things - including people, and seeks cost-effective actions to restore, protect and sustain water quality.

The Bay The Bay of Quinte is one of the most picturesque bodies of water in Lake Ontario. Its shoreline stretches in a Z-shape from Trenton to Bath for almost 100 kilometers. The Bay's watershed is the largest in Southern Ontario, over 18,000 square kilometers, and includes lands drained by the Trent, Moira, and Napanee rivers and a host of smaller tributaries.

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The Problems
In 1986, the International Joint Commission (a Canadian-American Great Lakes watchdog) identified the Bay of Quinte as one of 43 Great Lakes "Areas of Concern"...a pollution hot-spot.

Poor stewardship of the land as well as industrial, agricultural, municipal and household practices resulted in the past pollution problems including a loss of the diversity of plant and animal life, their habitats (especially wetlands) and an increasing risk to human health. A mix of toxic contaminants, bacterial and nutrient overloads in the Bay led to great imbalances in the aquatic ecosystem.