The Healthy Twelve Mile Creek project is officially launched!
On May 4th, 2019, the Healthy Twelve Mile Creek pilot project was launched at Lookout Point Country Club in Fonthill, Ontario with speakers from local environmental organizations, municipalities, regions, and Trout Unlimited Canada. For this project by the Niagara Chapter of Trout Unlimited, over 40 attendees and landowners from across the Niagara region came out in support of this new and impactful initiative.
Healthy Twelve Mile Creek is funded by a Seed Grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) and is a year-long pilot project focusing on landowner stewardship across Niagara’s Upper Twelve Mile Creek watershed. As the only significant cold water stream with a self-sustaining population of Brook Trout, the health of Twelve Mile Creek is at stake, with dwindling populations of Trout caused by thermal pollution from upstream development, poor land use practices, and the effects of climate change. Over eighty percent of this stream runs through land that is privately owned. As such, the goal of this project to engage landowners whose properties have portions of Twelve Mile Creek. Thanks to this grant with OTF, our work will include site visits with landowners, the creation of a restoration plan, and the completion of restoration work on three landowner properties this summer.
If successful, Healthy Twelve Mile Creek will be eligible for the Grow Grant with OTF, which may offer up to three years of funding to complete restoration work with many more landowners, greatly benefiting the health of the community and the watershed as a whole.
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