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An Ecolabel of Stewardship Excellence

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(705) 457-4838

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    • What is Blue Lakes?
    • Program Benefits & Risk Reduction
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        • Shoreline Health
        • Citizen Science Monitoring
        • Nutrient and Input Management
        • Habitat Management, Conservation and Improvement
        • Invasive Species Management
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    • Is the Program Right for You?
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • The Land Between Region – Cottage Country
    • The Charities – Label Administration
    • Project Impact Assessment
    • How to Enroll
  • Lake Stewardship
    • Lake Health Basics
    • Shoreline Health
    • Fish and Fish Habitat
    • Guides and Resources
  • Lake-based Research
    • Conservation and Human Behaviour
    • Connecting with Nature
    • Nature and Human Health
    • Lakes and Economic Health
    • Shoreline Ecology
    • Algae, Benthics, Zooplankon
    • Nutrients and Water Chemistry (Oxygen, Phosphorous, Calcium)
    • Project Impact Assessment
  • Workshops & Activities
    • Blue Lakes Programs and Workshops
      • A Turtle-y Cool Workshop
      • Bugs in the Mud
      • Good Birding Mornings
      • Land Between Wildlife Bingo
      • The ABCs of the Land Between Presentation
      • Design Your Own Shoreland Garden
    • Citizen Science Monitoring
      • Water Quality and Benthics Monitoring
      • Birds, Butterflies, Reptiles, and Wildlife Monitoring
    • Site Visits
      • The Natural Edge
  • Blue Lakes Blog
  • Blue Lakes Database
  • Home
  • About
    • What is Blue Lakes?
    • Program Benefits & Risk Reduction
    • BL Charter / Performance Areas
      • Performance Areas
        • Shoreline Health
        • Citizen Science Monitoring
        • Nutrient and Input Management
        • Habitat Management, Conservation and Improvement
        • Invasive Species Management
        • The Blue Lakes Database
      • Blue Lakes Score Card
    • Is the Program Right for You?
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • The Land Between Region – Cottage Country
    • The Charities – Label Administration
    • Project Impact Assessment
    • How to Enroll
  • Lake Stewardship
    • Lake Health Basics
    • Shoreline Health
    • Fish and Fish Habitat
    • Guides and Resources
  • Lake-based Research
    • Conservation and Human Behaviour
    • Connecting with Nature
    • Nature and Human Health
    • Lakes and Economic Health
    • Shoreline Ecology
    • Algae, Benthics, Zooplankon
    • Nutrients and Water Chemistry (Oxygen, Phosphorous, Calcium)
    • Project Impact Assessment
  • Workshops & Activities
    • Blue Lakes Programs and Workshops
      • A Turtle-y Cool Workshop
      • Bugs in the Mud
      • Good Birding Mornings
      • Land Between Wildlife Bingo
      • The ABCs of the Land Between Presentation
      • Design Your Own Shoreland Garden
    • Citizen Science Monitoring
      • Water Quality and Benthics Monitoring
      • Birds, Butterflies, Reptiles, and Wildlife Monitoring
    • Site Visits
      • The Natural Edge
  • Blue Lakes Blog
  • Blue Lakes Database
  • Stewardship Excellence
  • A Community of Practice
  • Landowner’s Actions are What Counts
  • Every Landowner Has a Stake in a Healthy Lake

An Ecolabel of Stewardship Excellence

Become a Blue Lakes Supporter.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A STAKE IN THE HEALTH OF THEIR LAKE

An Ecolabel of Stewardship Excellence

Blue Lakes is a rewarding voluntary program that sustains lake health today and for future generations. Achieving Blue Lake status has the potential to improve property values while preserving nature’s gifts. It is your opportunity to have an impact and cultivate a caring community.

Blue lakes is an eco-label program that provides a template for action and education. It is a label and a portfolio of tools, resources, and activities that can be tailored to your lake’s needs. The label also comes with access to real-time data about your lake.
The Blue Lakes eco-label is provided in recognition of your commitment to stewardship and education. The label is not provided because of a lake’s environmental conditions, but instead as a testament to your care.

Find Out More About the Program

Keeping Lakes Healthy

The Blue Lakes database helps you record data in areas of water quality, fisheries, and shoreline development on your lake.

Helping You Steward

We provide educational resources to help you meet your stewardship goals. As a Blue Lake you can access Love Your Lake, Natural Edge and Shoreline Garden programs.

Understanding Trends

The Blue Lakes program is a cooperative platform. Your input and that of scientists and partners will enable you to track historical and current trends on your lake.

We are building the elements of this program. We hope to launch in 2022.

If you wish to be part of the Steering Committee and build capacity to launch the Blue Lakes Program, contact us at 705-457-1222

The Blue Lakes Label comes with a database

The Blue Lakes database can accommodate data for any and all types of lakes across Ontario and beyond. For the testing to date we have focused on Lake Trout lakes. The following data is in our Blue Lakes database (where lake data has been available):

  • Lake Trout Lakes
  • Other Fish species
  • Fish Stocking for Environmental Reasons (OMNRF determinations)
  • Basin shoreline development/unnatural shorelines 2017 (circumference at 10m accuracy- not individual properties- privacy recognized)
  • Lake Partner Data (Phosphurous, secchi depth) over 10 years and where available
  • Water Quality data (Dissolved oxygen, temperature)
  • Mean Volume Hypolimnion Dissovled Oxygen Levels (capacity levels)
  • Historic and current lake profiles (where available and uploaded)

Compatible data (the database can accept and process):

  • All other fisheries
  • Love Your Lake data (with permissions)
  • Lake profiles
  • Angling Diaries
  • Angling Effort
  • Benthics/spawning habitats
  • Natural Edge program data
  • chemical sampling
  • TDS, TSS
  • Invasive spp. data
  • Biological data (contaminants)

Trends that can be derived where data is sufficient:

  • Changes in area volume of anoxia
  • Changes in natural shoreline levels
  • Changes in water quality/eutrophication
  • and more….

Contact Us

Find out more

    Better yet, give us a call or email

    Blue Lakes
    The Land Between Charity. Box 1368, Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0, ca

    (705) 457-1222

    info@thelandbetween.ca

    The Blue Lakes Pilot Year has been generously supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation

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    We respectfully acknowledge that The Land Between is located within Williams Treaty 20 Mississauga Anishinaabeg territory and Treaty 61 Robinson-Huron treaty territory, in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. The Land Between respectfully acknowledges that these First Nations are the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters in perpetuity and that they continue to maintain this responsibility to ensure their health and integrity for generations to come. 

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