Buffers are Better guide for landowners
Leaving an area of trees, grasses, shrubs, even wildflowers along waterways can improve the water quality adjacent to your property by over 30%. These natural areas are known as riparian buffers.
Resources
Guides you can download in PDF format for easy reference.
Grow Me Instead guide for gardens
Grow Me Instead is a planting guide for southern Ontario with plant profiles and photos that helps find non-invasive plants for your landscaping.
Landowner Stewardship Guide helps residents
The Landowner Stewardship Guide was developed especially for residents living within the One Mile Creek watershed in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Guide to woodland plants in Niagara
This guide to Woodland Plants available for free download makes it easy to identify native woodland plants of the Niagara Peninsula watershed.