We've been involved in a number of worthwhile and beneficial projects in the past few years. The following is a quick list of some of the projects that we've been involved with over the past few years.

Ottawa Conservation Fishing Brochure — The OSC's Conservation Fishing Brochure is a handy fishing resource which includes advice, descriptions of Ontario's fish with pictures and a map of fishing access areas in and around Ottawa.

Steven's Creek Muskellunge Watch — OSC partnered with Muskies Canada Ottawa Chapter with the assistance of MNR's community Fish and Wildlife involvement program, to undertake a muskellunge spawning activity assessment on one of the Rideau River's tributaries, Steven's Creek. The project was initiated to assist in determining potential impacts North Gower's existing municipal weir structure may have on the fishery's muskellunge population.

Ottawa River / Petrie Island Canoe Launch — The OCS, FOPI & City of Ottawa have completed the canoe launch access to the island's PSW Wetland interpretation sites.

Bog To Bog — OSC is one of the many partners involved with the Bog To Bog project. Its main objective is to "protect, conserve and improve" an existing corridor, focusing on lands from Ottawa east to Voyageur provincial park and north of Highway 417, connecting the Mer Bleue Bog, the Alfred Bog, and the Larose Forest. This project aims at educating private landowners on "best" land management practices.

Le Grand Prix — Council awarded a Prix d'Excellence du Conseil de l'intendance environnementale d'Ottawa. The prize goes annually to a student of outstanding academic standing in the forest technician or wildlife technician course at la cite collegiale.

LandOwner Resource Centre — helped provide operational funding
Envirothon - Funded/Coordinated Ottawa-Carleton's First Envirothon Competition sending West Carleton S.S. to the all-Ontario championships (Dorset) and National competition (Michigan)

Boisés Est — Attended Inaugural Meeting of Ontario's first francophone woodlot owners group in (1998)

Rideau Street Youth Enterprises —- Facilitated Ice Storm Work Proposal of /Referred Clients (1998)

Buffer Strip Factsheet — helped fund with South Nation Conservation

Open House and Planting of Long Island Park, Manotick

Ice Storm Damage To Woodlots and Plantations — Coordinated Five Workshops (1998)

Ice Storm Damage Extension Programs. Two forest technicians working for the Council provided 228 rural landowners and 200 urban tree owners with direct, ice storm woodlot advice and access programs. Further processing of disaster relief claims and access to the Forest Recovery Assistance Project were facilitated through the stewardship

On The Waterfront — Funded Reprint of Publication

National Capital Wildlife Festival — Assisted in Organization of (1996-current)

Project Wild Workshop.

Ottawa Clean Water Program. Council provides representation on the Steering Committee and Technical Review Committees.

L'envirothon — Assisted the Ontario Forestry Association prepare and support their successful proposal to the Trillium Foundation for funding a francophone version of the Envirothon program

Public Education Kiosks. Booths explaining the stewardship program and services offered to landowners and residents are staffed at the Ottawa Valley Farm Show, National Capital Wildlife Festival. Over 5,000 landowners visited the two booths.

A.Y. Jackson Park, Manotick. The Council is helping formulate a site plan for the park focusing on naturalization and leisure. Dedication ceremony was in September, 2000.

Outdoor Education Workshops. Council sponsored workshops involving 130 Ottawa-Carleton school teachers utilizing the environmental education manuals: Focus on Forests, Fishways, Project Wild and Focus on Fire. (2000)

Stewardship Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Intern. Council supported an intern summer student to handle in excess of 200 conflict resolution calls from the public related to wildlife. (1999).

Walleye Tracking Study. The Jock River is home to a distinct population of walleye. In order to ascertain the extent of their habitat, radio transmitters were installed in ten adult walleye with support and coordination from the Council. Further tagging of the fish and the production of signage informing the public were also started. (1999)

Catalogue of Eastern Ontario Demonstration Areas. The Council supported this internet-friendly catalogue with funding and information — a compendium of agricultural, forestry, wildlife and other demonstration projects.

Friends of the Carp River. Support went towards the planting of trees, tree guards, bone meal, refreshments and facilities for a large, riparian treeplant. 20,000 trees were planted over three days on four different properties on municipal and private land along the Carp River. (1998-)

Wild Bird Care Centre's Casselman Room. This well known centre does rehabilitation and educational work for the area's bird population. The Council helped support an information centre which will better interpret its work to the general public.

Operation Re-Leaf. The Council helped facilitate the planting of thousands of trees on ice storm damaged municipal properties by initiating contact with the municipalities about this program. (1999)

Eastern Ontario Biodiversity Museum Brochures. Council assisted this Kemptville-based museum produce their brochures publicizing the activities of the museum. (1999)

Living With Deer Video. Council supported the production of a 2-part educational video series designed to help landowners and residents minimize their conflicts with white tail deer. (1999)

Wild Things Happen Brochure. Support was given to reprint 10,000 brochures which highlighted eight conservation areas, three of which are in Ottawa-Carleton. (2000)

Ottawa-Carleton List of Environmental Speakers. A listing of speakers available for service clubs, businesses and schools was begun. Seventy-five names have so far been compiled for distribution in 2000.

The Great Marlborough Forest Clean-Ups. For the first time in recent history, a concerted volunteer effort was made to clean up the Marlborough Forest, a largely publicly-owned and large forest in Rideau Township in 1999 and 2000.

Cumberland Woodlot Management Day. A 1-day outdoor demonstration on the management of ice storm damaged woodlots was held on March 20th at the RÈjean Rollin Sugar Bush. The day included active presentations on managing and marking woodlots responsibly, proper tree felling techniques, skidding with horses and the use of the portable sawmill. Over 150 people attended including many of those who had received an ice storm extension visit from the Council.

Spotted Turtle Study. The Council sponsored a study of the provincially vulnerable spotted turtle previously discovered in Mer Bleue Bog in 1983. A total of 26 captures were made of 20 turtles, half of whom were previously caught in 1983 including the first hatchling (less than one year old) ever caught at Mer Bleue Bog. The population appears to be stable although further work will ascertain their status.

Oak Valley Pruning Day. A demonstration day of nut tree pruning techniques was given at the Oak Valley Nut Grove in Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry (1999)

Petrie Island Clean-Up. The Council coordinated twenty five baccalaureate students from Colonel By S.S. who helped clean up parts of Petrie Island on June 23 and learn about its ecology (1999)

Vars Trail. A talk on November 3rd assisted the Vars Community Association in their attempts to begin a Vars Trail in the Cumberland Forest near Vars. (1999)

Land Donation - West Carleton. A West Carleton landowner contacted the Council asking about options for donating his 200 acres of ecologically significant land for wildlife purposes. Council contacted 10 conservation agencies, ascertained their interest and passed the information on to the landowner. (1999)

Chinese/Tibetan Forest Tour. Forty five Chinese and Tibetan forestry personnel visited the Ottawa-Carleton area during a 1-month tour of Canada. On November 24 they were shown the Vanier Sugar Bush, Pinegrove Forest Trail, LandOwner Resource Centre and Ferguson Forest Centre/Eastern Ontario Model Forest. (1999)

Tree Care Made Easy Workshop. 75 people attended in Nepean/Ottawa (1998)

Naturalization at Bethany Church, Gloucester. Helped local church group fund naturalization projects. (1997)

Ice Storm Damage To Urban Trees — Coordinated Five Workshops (1998)

Reviewed Planning Documents — Central Experimental Farm Proposal, Nepean Water Park Proposal, Zoning Bylaw 20/20Z, Ottawa-Carleton Light Rail Project, Montfort Woods, Cumberland Transitway (1996-)

Vanier Sugar Bush Management Day, Coordination of events in 1999 and 2000

Maintaining Healthy Urban Trees Extension Note. With the technical guidance of the Council, this fact sheet was distributed in 1999.

Forest-Tree For Kids. Three activity/demonstration days were set up for 245 girl guides, scouts and cubs at Lorenzetti Park, Nepean and Connaught Rifle Range, Nepean/Kanata (April 24). Presenters from OMNR, City of Nepean, City of Ottawa, McSkimming Outdoor Centre delivered workshops on: forestry, wildlife, orienteering, forest ecology and tree climbing to children and leaders from across Ottawa-Carleton. (1999)

Street Smart Trees. A workshop on hardsurface planting was offered to 50 Ottawa and area residents on June 2 at the Region of Ottawa-Carleton. Presenters from the Region, City of Ottawa and the Council gave talks and presented written material on the challenges of planning, planting and maintaining trees in the City. (1999)

Capital Woodlands. Planning, research and fundraising began on this compendium of Ottawa woodlots. Funding was secured from the Millennium Fund and the Friends of the Environment Foundation

School related projects and a community beautification project — supported by the Council.

Transportation and the participation fees for 90 schoolchildren from St.Anthony's and Carson Grove Public School in Ottawa were funded by the Council to attend winter outdoor interpretive programming at the Baxter Conservation Areas;

Nine area public schools participated in a Schoolgrounds Transformation Workshop during three successive weekends in November - each of the schools received seed funding for their naturalization projects;

Support was given for schoolground transformation workshops for Torbolton Public School in West Carleton

Twelve large conifer trees were planted at the entrance to Vernon as part of their greening program during the Spring.

Friends of the Farm. Two members of the stewardship council attended a fundraising dinner for Friends of the Farm. Stewardship Council Chair Christine Hartig was introduced to the 200+ guests attending. (1999)

Buckthorn Control at Vanier Woodlot. Forty students from the University of Ottawa manually controlled European buckthorn, an invasive exotic within the Vanier sugar bush in September as an environmental activity as part of their orientation week. (1999

Stewardship Rangers. 5 area high school students did community work (Turtlehead Trails, IPM 2001, Baxter Nut Grove and Dolman Ridge) in Ottawa (2000)

L'envirothon. Coordinated the first French language Envirothon competition in Ontario at McSkimming Outdoor Centre, May 3 - 5, 2000

Controlling Invasive Plants Workshop. A 1-day lecture/field day was held at the Fletcher Wildlife Centre for municipalities, landscapers and community groups on methods available for invasive plant control (e.g. loosestrife, buckthorn)(2000)

Urban Wildlife Workshop. Over 200 people attended a 1-nite workshop on large mammals in O-C, raccoon rabies, and advances in human-animal conflict resolution held at the Museum of Nation on April 12, 2000

Trans-Canada Trail. Council supported the trail system in Ottawa-Carleton

Pruning Demonstration Day — Dolman Nut Grove. This event is to raise awareness of this unique area by demonstrating proper pruning techniques in this Gloucester area plantation. Project facilitation and coordination of communication for this landowner tree planting program in 2000 and 2001.

Wetland Owners Day. A 1-day tour of wetlands to raise awareness of programs for Ottawa-Carleton farmers and rural residents (2000).

Black Walnut Seed Project. Assist the students of Blossom Park Public School in a seed research project on black walnut (2000).