No one likes a soggy ditch! Guest blog by U of L student, Alix King. Learn about the neat bioswales on the University of Lethbridge campus - including how they help keep our watershed healthy, and how you can help protect them just by walking!
Hidden Gem in the Headwaters
Watershed's Most Wanted: Invasive Weeds
Headwaters Roses and Thorns
Waterton: Post-Fire Snapshot
The Importance of Building Bridges
Fish Sticks Video
Lost Creek Restoration
2018 Summer Events
A reason to hope
21st Century Watershed Superheroes
The Season for Stewardship!
Thanks to our generous supporters, the OWC is able to provide 50/50 cost-share support to fund small stewardship projects and educational events, to producers and watershed groups throughout the Oldman watershed each year! Check out the projects our WLP Team has chosen to support his year, some WLP program highlights and the events OWC (through the WLP program) will be out attending this summer!
Earth Day Symposium 2018
Welcome, Dylan and Dorothy!
Draft Land Use Plans Will Improve Watershed Health
Well Water Perceived as Safe
Overall, the study found that most well owners feel they are not susceptible to well contamination issues because they have not had any health concerns that they linked to their well water quality. Perceived susceptibility is critical, because it helps indicate how motivated people would be to test and/or treat their well.
Well Water: Risky or Safe?
Protecting What We Love
The eastern slopes should be a place for OHV users, campers, anglers, hunters, hikers and everyone in between. But in order for that to happen, activities need to be supported accordingly. Under the current framework that simply isn’t possible. The draft plans released March 27, 2018 offer a path forward.
FISH STICKS! Family Puppet Workshop
Drop in with your family and create a puppet show to celebrate the flora and fauna in the Oldman Watershed. With guidance from professional puppeteer Wendy Passmore-Godfrey of Calgary’s WP Puppet Theatre, make...
Water Builds Community
“The Oldman Watershed Council allows everyone to have a voice and tell their story,” was Kyle Gouw’s answer as to why they chose to donate to the Oldman Watershed Council. “Everyone has a story about water. Water is not one person’s responsibility; it is everyone’s responsibility. Water ties us together. Water builds community.”