Meet the 2016 Seasonal Outreach Assistants!
Only a week left to renew!
Introducing Rob Taylor - completing OWC's Outreach Assistant Team!
What are we actually DOING to improve the health of our watershed? The OWC is working closely and carefully with all stakeholders over the last years to identify 8 Goals. As the birthplace of our water, protecting the headwaters is a priority. We created the Headwaters Action Team and the Headwaters Action Plan. Continuing on our successes of last year out in the backcountry, our 4 Outreach Assistants are going to help put that plan into action this summer. We'd like to introduce you to Rob Taylor ...
Introducing Nicola Spencer, OWC's newest Outreach Assistant!
The top 4 priority actions selected by the mulit-stakeholder Headwaters Action Team (HAT) are: 1) Complete A Linear Features Classification (completed) 2) Complete fine-scale cumulativeeffects assessment of fish populations and habitat streams (underway) 3) Assist Environment & Parks with the prevention of quatic invasive species (ongoing) and 4) Explore options for recreation user fees to fund enforcement, education and stewardship projects (underway). Four Outreach Assistants have been hired to build on the work done last summer by OWC's Outreach Assistants Adam Janzen and Rowan Garleff, together with our Collaborative Partners, in Dutch Creek and elsewhere in the headwaters. This is Nicola Spencer, one of three new Outreach Assistants for this season. Meet Nicola ...
JUST EAT IT - April 22nd is Earth Day!
You've all heard about the recent appeal of ugly produce ... well an even closer look reveals that we are throwing away $31 BILLION dollars worth of food ... completely needlessly. Southern Alberta uses plenty of water to grow food for the world and yet we are throwing it away! April 22 is Earth Day. Let's learn how to save food, water and money - not a bad combination. EVENTS at 11:00 and 3:00 ...
Our Outreach Assistant Team Summer 2016
Things are hopping busy at the OWC as we ramp up for the summer season and the Engaging Recreationists Project. The aim is to get ALL USERS of the backcountry to understand the importance of watershed management and health, and to respect the role that waterbodies and the land that surrounds them play in providing drinking water to everyone downstream. This summer, OWC is training a team of 4 Outreach Assistants. Meet the 2nd member of our team, Ryan Bell!
Newsletter April 2016!
Pole Haven – What happened? And what happens now?
Say Hi to the New Guy!
Our Engaging Recreationists project is ramping up! Last year, we had 2 Outreach Assistants in the backcountry, piloting our outreach project. This year, we are doubling that capacity and have hired the first of 4 Outreach Assistants (OAs) who will be helping with restoration work and education in the backcountry. Led by Education Manager Sofie Forsstrom, the project is set to take off soon and we will announce the other OAs as they come aboard ...
Get out into the backcountry & help restore trails!
THE FISH THAT GOT AWAY!
What We Learned at Holding the Reins and Watershed Legacy Program 2016 Recipients Announced!
Interview with filmmaker Rick Searle
***SCREENING LIVE FOR WORLD WATERDAY MARCH 22*** With all the attention on the headwaters at the moment (it IS, after all, the first goal tackled via the OWC's Action Plans ....) it can be easy at times to forget what happens downstream. That, is, until disaster strikes like it did in the floods of 2013. Filmmaker Rick Searle explains how decisions made upstream helped contribute to a semi-arid corner of Manitoba being completely flooded ...
Celebrate World Water Day March 22
The OWC is hiring Outreach Assistants for Summer 2016
Westslope Cutthroat Trout: Recovery Efforts, Critical Habitat Order and More….
Holding The Reins Landowners' Summit 2016 Registration Open Now!
News Release from the Crowsnest Pass Quad Squad
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SAVE THE DATE - GRAND OPENING OF THE NEW OWC OFFICE!
Many thanks to the hardworking volunteers who helped us move from our old offices out at the provincial government's Research Centre into our new space downtown! There are two departments in particular that have been long-time supporters of OWC and we we would like to thank for 10 years' of office space for the OWC. They are: the Irrigation Branch and the Water Quality Branch, They have been involved in many projects over the years. We are looking forward to making our new office a community space where we will be having regular events and bring in other related businesses and NGOs that share our vision for a sustainable watershed. Currently, Environment Lethbridge has joined us, and we look forward to expanding our community hub.
