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  • $1,000 grant for students

    Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation is offering a $1,000 Student Environmental Grant in 2023.
    Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2023

  • Butternut Archive Orchard planted

    Forest Gene Conservation Association and Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority are planting a five-acre Butternut Archive Orchard to help save the Butternut species.
    Posted: Monday, May 29, 2023

  • Wind phone on trail to help people deal with grief

    Lambton Shores Nature Trails (LSNT) has installed a Wind Phone, on the Ausable River Cut Conservation Area (ARCA) trail, in partnership with Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA).
    Posted: Friday, May 5, 2023

  • Land tract donated in memory of Delton Finkbeiner

    Paul Finkbeiner and his son Dalton have honoured the late Delton ‘Fink’ Finkbeiner by donating the Finkbeiner Tract property in the provincially significant Hay Swamp wetland complex.
    Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2023

  • Conservation Dinner raises more than $50,000

    After one missed year, and two years of holding the auction virtually online, the Conservation Dinner returned to an in-person event in 2023.
    Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

  • Weather Network meteorologist speaks

    Meteorologist and storm chaser Mark Robinson, of The Weather Network, spoke about Extreme Weather in the Great Lakes Region. He was the keynote speaker at our annual Flood Emergency Planning Meeting.
    Posted: Monday, April 3, 2023

  • ABCA issues report card on World Water Day

    Watershed Report Cards are updated every five years. The new report card is released on World Water Day, March 22, 2023.
    Posted: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

  • Award-winning student speaks on Great Lakes algae

    Stockholm Junior Water Prize winner Annabelle Rayson, of Sarnia, spoke about research on preventing algae blooms.
    Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023

  • Peter and late Esther Warner win award

    The Conservationist of the Year Award goes to Peter Warner, and his late wife Esther. The award was presented on March 16, 2023.
    Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023