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Trees Ontario is hosting a field meeting on Manitoulin Island

9/30/2014

Trees Ontario is hosting a field meeting on Manitoulin Island
Trees Ontario Northern Afforestation ProgramWhen: Thursday Oct 2/14 1-4 partner groups & 7-9 pm for landowners
Where: Knox United Church 25 Napier Street; Manitowaning, ON.
Contact Peter Gagnon Trees Ontario at 705-779-3796 or cell 705-542-4586 for registration and agenda details.Find out how you can help and benefit from this program!
http://www.treesontario.ca

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Trees Ontario is a not-for-profit organization committed to the re-greening of Ontario through tree planting efforts on rural lands and in urban areas.

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Great Canadian Shoreline Clean Up – Gore Bay 2014

9/29/2014

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On Friday we went out to Gore Bay and conducted a shoreline cleanup with the Gore Bay Fish and Game Club and the Grade 8 class from C.C. McLean Public School. We would like to thank Dean’s Valu-Mart in Gore for all the snacks and drinks they provided for the volunteers and the Town of Gore Bay for the garbage bags and gloves they provided. We were able to clean up the whole shoreline from Buoys right through to the top of Bickell’s Creek. Lots of garbage removed! Thank you to everyone that helped out.

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M’Chigeeng Fall Harvest

9/26/2014

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Had a beautiful day in M’Chigeeng at their Fall Harvest. Manitoulin Streams had a display at the festival showcasing the restoration work completed with Lakeview School in M’Chigeeng Creek as well as provided educational information about invasive species.

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Dredging in Providence Bay; Mindemoya River

9/21/2014

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The wind closed up the mouth of the Mindemoya River so we were able to dredge it open again this morning. Lots of fish in the river! We’ve also posted some pictures of the educational viewing and fishing platform that is currently being constructed which will be wheelchair accessible allowing everyone a chance to learn about our fishery and have a chance at angling.

On a side note, I ran into my friend and previous boss Bill Keller from the Living with Lakes Centre with his son Jason fishing on the river. Can’t beat a beautiful day and the sight of lots of fish. I took a couple of pictures at some of our other restoration sites on my way home to the office. The salmon are making it all the way up to the Manitou dam. Another successful spawning run!

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Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

9/19/2014

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Annual General Meeting

9/18/2014

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The Annual General Meeting will take place on September 29, 2014. Four positions are up for election (Secretary, Treasurer and 2 Board Members). Nomination forms can be found on our website www.manitoulinstreams.com (under the drop down: About US and AGM) and are to be sent in by Monday Sept 22, 2014. The meeting will be held at 119 Burke St. in Spring Bay

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Bass Lake Creek

9/17/2014

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Manitoulin Streams worked with the Little Current Fish and Game Club to improve salmon and trout habitat at the upper reach of Bass Lake Creek. A hydraulic hammer was used to expand a pool and 9 yards of spawning gravel was placed inside to create a spawning pool. Sweeper logs that were washed downstream with high water flows were also replaced with boulders. Passage upstream was created with spawning channels as well.

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Mindemoya River

9/17/2014

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Dredged the mouth of the Mindemoya River with the help of the Municipality of Central Manitoulin this morning so that migrating salmon could make it upstream to spawn. We’ve heard lots of positive comments this year about the fishery improving by doing this over the past 4 years. A sand bar builds up blocking access due to wave action and it causes a trickle of water from the river (2-3 inches) over the sand for the salmon to try to cross. This was causing salmon to become beached on the sand. The dredging seems to be working!