Environment

Local organization for education and protection

https://invasivespeciescentre.ca/

We found this resource that has a plant database and helps you in your planning for shoreline naturalization. The company can come out to your property and do a site plan and order the plants and materials. https://naturaledge.watersheds.ca/resources/

They have informative videos and resources.

" We offer subsidized rates for shoreline property owners. Get in touch with us to see what you’re eligible for based on your location. Let us guide you in creating a beautiful and healthy shoreline, as well as take care of ordering all plants and materials"

Where have all the lake trout gone?

This seems to be the question that most of the property owners on lake trout lakes in Haliburton have been asking for the last few years. Trout populations on most of the lakes are noticeably reduced and those trout that are caught are usually smaller in size.

It was because of this growing concern that The Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners‘ Associations (CHA) surveyed all of the lake stewards in 2012 to ensure we had a clear picture of the situation. CHA felt that we needed to bring the representatives together in a workshop to provide a greater awareness and understanding of both the past and the future of the lake trout situation.

Visit the fish & fishing area of our Resources section for in depth presentations and information on the future of fish and fishing in Haliburton County.

https://www.cohpoa.org/lake-health-3/fish-and-fishing/

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Experiencing a really loud boom during the night? No need to worry, but it is startling and there have been many reports all around Haliburton and other parts of Ontario these past few weeks, of really loud earthquake like shakes and booms as the earth moves due to frost. This is due to the thaw then refreeze of water inside the ground and there is a name for them. They are called ice or frost quakes or the technical term Cryoseism. This is a natural phenomenon that normally occurs overnight.

Here is some background on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRPYrSN-L0