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Are you in a flood plain? Find out more: abca.ca/mapping/
DYK? Your property may be in a floodplain—even if you’ve never experienced a flood. 🌊
Rain and snowmelt can cause rivers, streams, and lakes to overflow onto surrounding lands.
Conservation Authorities use floodplain mapping to inform safe development and reduce flood risks.
ALT An eye-level, wide shot captures a flooded residential street lined with green trees, utility poles, and mailboxes reflecting in the calm, murky water. The floodwater covers the entire road, submerging lawns and the bases of utility poles, mailboxes, and a small green shed. In the background, a few cars are parked on a drier section of the road.
Rock Glen Conservation Area, in Arkona, is open again! Plan your visit today: abca.ca/conservationareas/ro…
The park was closed temporarily (on October 19 and part of October 20) to make it possible for a work crew, with large equipment, to replace Hydro poles.
The work is now done and the conservation area welcomes you back.
NOTICE: Rock Glen Conservation Area in Arkona is closed on Monday, October 19, 2026 and Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
This temporary closure is required to make it possible for a work crew, with large equipment, to replace Hydro poles.
Learn more: abca.ca/news/disruptions/
An Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority property in Hay Swamp, on the northeast corner of Parr Line & MacDonald Road, is temporarily closed to public access for forestry thinning work. The work & closure is expected to be about two weeks. Learn more: abca.ca/news/disruptions/
Monitoring Matters. Read Ausable Bayfield Conservation's new Watershed Monitoring Strategy 2026-2030 (and accompanying Summary document): abca.ca/monitoring/
#MonitoringMatters
(Photos courtesy of OMERS)
Thanks very much to everyone in the Municipality of Huron East who bought a tree through the Tree Power program! Thanks to Festival Hydro, the Municipality of Huron East, Maitland Conservation, and Ausable Bayfield Conservation. Every tree counts! 🌳 Learn more: huroneastasksresidents.ca/tr…
This Oaks and Acorns opportunity, for children ages 18 months to 4 years (with caregiver), is free! Pre-registration is required. Register now: bit.ly/oaks-acorns-2026-autu… In partnership with Lambton EarlyON. Funding thanks to Sunset Community Foundation & Rotary Club of Grand Bend.
Last chance for Huron East residents to order trees through Tree Power. Only a few trees left!
Huron East, Tree Pickup Day is This Saturday! 🌳
There’s still time to take part in the Tree Power Program! Municipality of Huron East residents can order discounted trees this week that are ready to plant this weekend.
Together with the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority, the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority and the Municipality of Huron East, we’re helping grow greener communities one tree at a time. Planting the right tree in the right place can provide shade, support biodiversity and help improve energy efficiency around your home.
🌱 Don’t wait, order before supplies sell out!
👉 Shop the Tree Power Store - abcashop.ca/product/tree-pow…
Spread the word and share with your friends, family and neighbours! 💚
#TreePower #HuronEast #FestivalHydro #EnergyConservation #CommunityGreening #PlantATree #PowerOfTrees
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It's the 20th anniversary of South Huron Trail Mobile! 🎂 Thanks to donors & volunteer drivers like Norm Eckel and Jim Hayter, people with limited mobility have enjoyed a nature experience they could not have otherwise, for more than 20 years! Learn more: abca.ca/post/?ID=1708
While enjoying autumn colours on MacNaughton-Morrison Section of South Huron Trail, check out the interpretive signs. This sign, installed earlier this year, is about the differences between safe, native Purple Angelica & toxic, invasive Giant Hogweed: abca.ca/post/?ID=1678
NOTICE: Rock Glen Conservation Area in Arkona is closed on Monday, October 19, 2026 and Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
This temporary closure is required to make it possible for a work crew, with large equipment, to replace Hydro poles.
Learn more: abca.ca/news/disruptions/
It has been another great year for our wetland program with eight new wetlands excavated across the watershed and native species of plants planted at sixteen wetlands. Learn more: abca.ca/post/?ID=1706 Thanks go to participating landowners and funding partners!
Today (Sunday, October 11, 2026) is the last day of Ontario Agriculture Week.
#ONTAgWeek is over for the year but we appreciate, every day of the year, the farmers who produce our food and implement agricultural best management practices on their properties.
It's a hoot!!! 🦉 The Owl Prowl is Friday, November 6, 2026. It's free (!!! 😁) but you have to pre-register: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/20… Session one is 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. & session two is 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morrison Dam Conservation Area, 71108 Morrison Line, east of Exeter.
Check out the latest issue of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation e-newsletter: mailchi.mp/abca/return-of-so…
Ontario Agriculture Week is October 5-11, 2026. Learn about best practices & innovations taking place at Huronview Demonstration Farm near Clinton through a partnership of agricultural producers & industry & agency partners: huronview.net/best-practices
#HuronviewDemoFarm #ONTAgWeek
Invasive species of plants negatively impact tourism and recreation. Learn how in this article by Bayfield residents Renee Sandelowsky and Helen Varekamp: abca.ca/post/?ID=1704
Ontario Agriculture Week begins today (October 5, 2026).
Today and every day we celebrate the agricultural producers, in our watershed & throughout Ontario, who grow our food & steward soil and water.
Learn about #ONTAgWeek at Farm & Food Care Ontario: farmfoodcareon.org/download/…
