Author: PEI Watershed Alliance

07 Feb

by Vivian Ulinwa published on Monday, February 5th, 2024, in The Guardian (online) A grazing workshop for P.E.I. farmers held in O'leary on Jan. 25 aimed to promote pasture management and increase yield for local farmers. The living lab workshop was a partnership between Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the East-prince Agri-environment...

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30 Jan

The PEI Watershed Alliance, the umbrella organization that supports all 25 watershed groups on PEI was awarded almost a million dollars in funding in October of 2023 to assist watershed groups in the recovery and restoration of their areas post-Fiona. All of our groups have been hard at work rebuilding, restoring, and clearing...

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30 Jan

A woodchip bioreactor (nitrate filtra­tion system) was installed in a field over­looking the Seal River estuary in the fall and was aimed at providing valuable data about the severity of nitrate pollution in the area. The pilot project is a collabora­tion of Agri-Watershed Partnership, Pis­quid River Enhancement Project Inc (PREP) and Shady Lane Farms. The Seal River...

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18 Oct

Charlotte Large, Juliana Fernandes Granzoti, and Heather Laiskonis had the opportunity to appear before the standing committee on natural resources and environmental sustainability to recommend shoreline protection measures for future Island land developments. On Oct. 12, members of the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance presented their recommendations to the standing committee, focusing primarily...

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