Rehabilitating and Securing Great Lakes Wetlands

Rehabilitation and securement efforts are underway around the Great Lakes, in both Canada and the United States. Projects range from extensive multi-partnered, long term projects like those at Oshawa Second Marsh and Cootes Paradise in Hamilton, to individual land owners taking the initiative to actively steward, rehabilitate or donate a small wetland on their own property. Both of these scales of undertakings, and everything in between, are essential to the overall conservation of Great Lakes wetlands. Many rehabilitation and securementinitiatives are realized under the umbrella of the Great Lakes Wetlands Conservation Action Plan.

Securement is the protection of wetlands through a variety of acquisition and/or private stewardship efforts by land owners, while rehabilitation is the improvement of a wetlands' functions or values through effective management and restoration techniques.

Tools

Rehabilitation Tools
Securement Techniques

Rehabilitation and Securement Results

Location maps for rehabilitation and securement project sites
Hectares of wetland habitat rehabilitated
Hectares of wetland habitat secured.

Project Showcase

Descriptions of successful wetland rehabilitation and securement projects throughout the Great Lakes basin.

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