Resource Library

The Friends of Stittsville Wetland have gathered the following resources to build awareness and promote the importance of conserving our wetlands.

These resources will help in our efforts to protect, restore, regenerate and rewild our wetlands for future generations.

Maps

  1. GEOOttawa – City of Ottawa’s Geographical Information Service

  2. Ontario GeoHub, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Information for Ontario Wetlands

Resources

  1. Ducks Unlimited Canada. May 2010. Southern Ontario Wetland Conversion Analysis. Final Report.

  2. Conservation Ontario

  3. Government of Ontario. 2022. Ontario Wetland Evaluation System Southern Manual 4th Edition 2022.

  4. Lozanski, Jessica. 2021. Wild Stittsville: A Guide to Our Ecosystems and How We Can Re-wild Our Community. Canadian Wildlife Federation. Canadian Conservation Corps Alumni.

  5. Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands

  6. Office of the Auditor General of Ontario. May 16, 2023.

    a.   The State of the Environment in Ontario

    b.   News Release

    c.   Report at a Glance

  7. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. 2017. A Wetland Conservation Strategy for Ontario 2017–2030. Queen’s Printer for Ontario. Toronto, ON. 52 pp.

  8. Ontario Nature – Bill 23: The Issue, Exposing the Myth, Grassroots Opposition Matters

  9. Ontario Nature – Wetlands: Havens for biodiversity and landscape resilience to climate change

  10. Ontario Nature. A Primer on Wetland Offsetting in Ontario. Practices, Policies and Resources

  11. Ramsar: The Convention on Wetlands

    a.    The Convention on Wetlands and its mission

    b.    Wetlands: The key to coping with climate change

Recommended Reading

  1. Ontario Nature. Bill 23. The passage of the Government of Ontario’s Bill 23 spells disaster for everything from conservation authorities to farmland and democracy

  2. Ecospirituality: The psychology of moral concern for nature – ScienceDirect

  3. Grasslands, forests & wetlands – Nature’s carbon capture & storage solution | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

  4. Marking 50 years of wetland conservation and loss | TheSpec.com

  5. Trans Canada Trail | National Léger Survey Reveals Canadians’ Trail Use on the Rise in 2023

  6. Walking – The Atlantic | Henry David Thoreau

Recommended Listening

1.     ‘Swamp as sacred space’: Save wetlands to save ourselves, say experts | CBC Radio

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We are growing and we need your help! Together, we will be the voice to protect, restore, regenerate, and rewild our wetlands.