March 2024 – Trout River Environmental Committee

Cross-watershed Tree Swallow Nesting Box Program: Booklet

We have just released a new Cross-Watershed Tree Swallow Box Program booklet on our website! Find this booklet on our website troutriverec.ca under resources or by clicking *here*.

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Trout River Environmental Committee

2 weeks ago

💧 TREC has just recently completed a project on Anderson’s Creek which works to improve fish passage from head of tide, to upstream habitat. As part of our regular Riparian Health Assessments, we also complete crossing assessments which help us to determine if culverts and other crossings allow for proper fish passage or need to be replace/mitigated in the future. 🐟 Last year it was determined that a crossing on St Marys Rd in Stanley Bridge road did not allow for fish passage, making it difficult for brook trout and other aquatic species to migrate to suitable habitat further upstream. With help from local contractors and professionals, as well as guidance from the provincial and federal government, TREC installed rock weirs in order to elevate the water level below the culvert, allowing water to flow within the crossing and allow for proper fish passage. These rock weirs are a series of constructed pools, which work to gradually elevate water levels, and create fish habitat. Check out the before and after photos of this crossing! ... See MoreSee Less

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Trout River Environmental Committee

3 weeks ago

🦇 Happy Bat Week and Happy Halloween from TREC 🦇Pictured is the Little Brown Bat or Little Brown Myotis. Bats are amazing creatures, which roost and hibernate on PEI. They love to live in riparian areas and mixed forest types roosting under the bark of dead trees and in large tree cavities. Bats can also be found roosting in man made structures like buildings and bat boxes, as well as hibernating in old sandstone wells! It is important to conserve sandstone wells on PEI , if you or someone you know has an old sandstone well, please let us know!Little brown bats and other bats on PEI can also make amazing pest control. While nursing their pups these bats can eat up to half their body weight in insects in just one night! We along with other watershed groups under the @peiwatershedalliance PEI Watershed Alliance , with the help of experts like the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative monitor this and other declining bat species on PEI. Bats on PEI and all over North America are being impacted by white nose syndrome and habitat loss, making it all the more important than ever to conserve riparian and forest habitat on PEI 🌲🌳(amazing photos taken by Jean-Jacques Strydom in Millvale area)#BatWeek ... See MoreSee Less

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Trout River Environmental Committee

4 weeks ago

Thank you to Emma MacNeill with @hcwg.pei Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group for helping TREC complete headwater surveys last week! We are thankful for the close partnerships we have with our neighboring watershed groups 🌲 Headwater surveys are conducted twice annually in the spring and fall by collecting data at the very start of a stream. These surveys help us understand the health of our headwaters, collect baseline data, and gather information on sites that are at risk of running dry due to climate change and other impacts 🌎During these surveys we collect data on water flow/presence, where a headwater starts year to year, canopy cover, air and water temperature, as well as presence of springs 💧. ... See MoreSee Less

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Trout River Environmental Committee

1 month ago

🌳 A big thank you to everyone who came out to our TREC Volunteer Tree Planting Day this past Saturday! Together we planted 150 native trees and shrubs! These efforts will work to provide future habitat for wildlife and increase Wabanaki-Acadian Forest on PEI. 🐦This concludes our tree planting for 2025 🌲 If you live in the Stanley Bridge, Cavendish, Granville area and are interested in having tree planting completed in spring of 2026 please contact us at director@troutriverec.ca to see if you have a suitable property. 🌳 TREC focuses our tree planting efforts on areas that:- Are in the riparian zone (an area around a watercourse or wetland)- Lack native species diversity.- Are hedgerows on farm fields.- Where planting could improve habitat, provide shade for streams, restore stream banks, prevent erosion and sedimentation.- Provide a community good, such as in a public park.🌱 You can also sign up for the PEI 2 Billion Trees Program! It just might be the right fit for you if:-you can accept at least 50 trees-are planting in an area without an existing tree canopy-the area is passable for planting crewsSimply apply, then provincial forestry staff and/or PEI Watershed Alliance staff will carefully evaluate your site and goals to determine your eligibility as well as the suitability of six different species available: white spruce, white pine, eastern hemlock, white birch, yellow birch, and red maple.Visit this provincial webpage to learn more and apply through the portal at the bottom of the page if you are interested.www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/service/pei-2-billion-trees-landowner-application ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

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1 month ago

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1 month ago

Want to learn more about what we do? Come see us at the Learning about TREC event, tonight at 7pm! This event will be held at the Sterling WI Community Hall: 4897 St Marys Rd, Stanley Bridge, PE C0A 1N0. ... See MoreSee Less

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Trout River Environmental Committee

1 month ago

We are just over a week away from our TREC Volunteer Tree Planting Day! Please see event page for any updates and email director@troutriverec.ca to sign up 🌳 ... See MoreSee Less

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