Healthy Bay • Healthy Community
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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
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Garry Kirsch photo |
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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.
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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
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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. |
 P. Johanson photo |
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.