Established in 1968 for the Preservation of Williams Lake
Exploring your neighborhood and its natural habitats is all part of the science curriculum for grade 4 students in the Halifax Regional Centre for Education. Learners are encouraged to have a “hands-on minds-on” approach to learning about the characteristics of different habitats and their interconnectedness in their own neighbourhoods.
The McNamara Trout-a-Rama has just resurfaced. The two-year Covid-lockdown and the recent wildfire closure of forests and parks shut down this popular family fishing derby in Spryfield. The Halifax Wildlife Association (HWA) revived the sport fishing event at the beginning of June on Cunard Pond on Williams Lake. Families with kids, folks from surrounding neighbourhoods and enthusiastic groups of fishing buddies arrived early, eager to register, hook their free worms, and start casting. [photo: Cathy Vaughan]
Bird surveys, LakeWatchers program, Lake Water Quality testing, HRM’s Regional Review, Backlands additions, a fix for the dam, the expansion of the Shaw Wilderness Park and more have kept us busy this year. We will be reporting on these important projects at our Annual General Meeting and invite you to join us to get a sense of how you and your family can be citizen environmentalists.
Shaw Wilderness Park just Super-Sized! Healthy Lake Water Quality Tests Results! Successful Bird Watching Series and Surveys! A Fix for the Dam are just some of the headlines in our 2024 Newsletter. And don’t forget our AGM coming up on June 11th. Read more….
Raptors, songbirds, waterfowl and many other migratory birds consider Williams Lake and its watershed their home sweet home. They can be spotted in the treed canopy in the Shaw Wilderness Park and tucked in the globally rare Jack Pine-Broom Crowberry community along the glacier-sculpted granite ridges on the Osprey Ridge Trail in the Backlands next to the Williams Lake watershed.