Partners

Ausable Bayfield Conservation protects life, property and builds environmental conscience and action with help of its partners

Protecting life and property and building resilient watersheds and environmental conscience and action can only happen with many partners.

There is always the chance we might miss someone when we mention the partners who make the work of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority possible. It is almost a certainty we will miss some important groups that support our work – if that is the case, please let us know so we can include you here. Despite the pitfalls of such recognition, we will attempt to do our best not only in order to recognize the laandowners, organizations, businesses and individuals who make such worthwhile work happen but to demonstrate how our work is only possible with the support of our many partners.

Federal Government

• Greencover Canada (GC), a program of the Agricultural Policy Framework (APF), a Federal-Provincial-Territorial initiative

• Government of Canada

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

• Environment Canada, EcoAction

•Habitat Stewardship Program

• Other ministries

Provincial Government

• Greencover Canada (GC), a program of the Agricultural Policy Framework (APF), a Federal-Provincial-Territorial initiative

• Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE)

• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR)

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)

• Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAH)

• Pinery Provincial Park

• Other ministries, programs

County Governments

• Huron

• Lambton

• Middlesex

• Perth

• Other counties (including Bruce and Wellington through Source Protection Planning), and planners

Municipal Governments

ABCA Member Municipalities:

• Adelaide Metcalfe

• Bluewater

• Central Huron

• Huron East

• Lambton Shores

• Lucan Biddulph

• Middlesex Centre

• North Middlesex

• Perth South

• South Huron

• Warwick

• West Perth

• Other municipalities

Foundations

• Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation

• Grand Bend Community Foundation

• Ontario Trillium Foundation

• TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

• Trees Ontario Foundation

• Thames Talbot Land Trust

• Other foundations

Service Organizations

• Arkona Lions Club

• Clinton Lions Club

• Exeter Lions Club

• Probus Club

• Rotary Club of Grand Bend

• Royal Canadian Legion

• Scouts Canada

• Sylvan

• Many other service organizations

Volunteer Committees

• Ausable River Recovery Team

• Conservation Dinner Committee

• Gord Strang Memorial Golf Tournament

• The Old Ausable River Channel Long–Term Management Plan Steering Committee

• South Huron Trail Run Committee

• SWPGMN Working Group

• Water Response Team

Volunteer Community Groups

• Bayfield Ratepayers’ Association

• Bluewater Shoreline Residents’ Association

• Friends of the Bayfield River

• Friends of Old Ausable Channel

• Friends of Pinery Provincial Park

• Friends of the South Huron Trail

• Lake Smith Conservationists

• Lambton Wildlife Inc.

• The Nairn Creek Project

• North Gullies community group

• Ausable Anglers

• Pineridge Snowmobile Club

• Ausable River Riders

• Huron Fish & Game Club

• Sarnia Lambton Environmental Alliance

• Huron Fringe Field Naturalists

• McIlwraith Field Naturalists

• Stratford Field Naturalists

• Huron Tourism Association

• Many other community groups

Agricultural Organizations

• General Farm Organizations (OFA, CFFO, NFU)

• Ontario Farm Environmental Coalition and Huron Farm Environmental Coalition

• Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association

• Commodity Groups

• AGCare

• Many others

Stewardship Councils and Networks

• Huron Stewardship Council

• Middlesex Stewardship Council

• Perth Stewardship Network

• Lambton Stewardship Network

• Many others

Agencies and Non–Governmental Organizations

• Conservation Ontario

• Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities

• Carolinian Canada Coalition

• Ducks Unlimited

• Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation

• Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters

• Association of Municipalities of Ontario

• Nature Conservancy of Canada

• Ontario Nature

• The Ontario Rural Council

• Ausable Bird Observatory

• Many others

Education

• Watershed schools

• University of Guelph

• University of Waterloo

• Many other educational institutions

Businesses

• Donors

• Engineers and Lawyers

• Consultants

• Commemorative Woods funeral homes

• Private nurseries

• Printers, web and graphic designers and other suppliers

• Ontario Power Generation

• Many other businesses too numerous to mention here

Media

•  Community and other print media

• Broadcast media

• Farm media

 • Web-based media

Individuals

• It’s not possible to list all the individuals who partner with the ABCA – they range from landowners and homeowners and stewardship workshop participants and meeting participants and working group members to staff of other organizations to teachers to students to peer reviewers todonors and other volunteers. Although you may not ‘see your name in lights’ here please know your contributions are indispensable.

Volunteers

• Landowners, home owners, business people 

• Donors

• Patrons

• South Huron Trail Mobile drivers

• Committee and working group members

• Others

To those whom we have inadvertently missed we apologize – and extend our thanks. Let us know at info@abca.on.ca if you have been omitted and we will to correct our error.

Partnership is sometimes one of those ‘buzzwords’ that gets bandied about until much of its meaning is lost. However, when the ABCA talks about partnerships it is because we truly cannot accomplish our important conservation goals without your partnership with us.

Thank you.