The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society Is No More

The Society has joined the Monty Python parrot. Story published in the Sylvan Lake News on August 12, 2021

Professor David Schindler Predicted the Future of Sylvan Lake

Watch Professor David Schindler's 2010 CBC video interview about Sylvan Lake: Are his predictions still valid today? See the full CBC production here: https://youtu.be/mcH12ZMl3_0

Quiet Enjoyment Initiative Rejected by the Town of Sylvan Lake

The Sylvan Lake News reported on a decision of the Town of Sylvan Lake council on February 12 to decline a request for funding for the Quiet Enjoyment Initiative (QEI). The  QEI project of the SLWSS champions the rights of all Sylvan Lake shoreline populations to enjoy the watershed without disturbance by inconsiderate operators of …

Human noise pollution is disrupting parks and wild places

This article by Rachel Buxton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Colorado State University, is reprinted with permission from the website "The Conversation". Click on this link for the original article: https://theconversation.com/human-noise-pollution-is-disrupting-parks-and-wild-places-78074 As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, …

SLWSS Newsletter for July 2017

The Sylvan Lake watershed includes about 150 square kilometres of land and water that need the attention of the community.   State of the Watershed Update Two summary reports compiled by the Alberta Lake Management Society included Sylvan Lake water quality data collected during our 2016 campaign. Because of the low nutrient concentrations, which are …

Quiet Enjoyment Initiative-QEI – The Official Poster

  Click on the image to enlarge the poster. Click on this link for a pdf version that you can save: Quiet Enjoyment Initiative Poster 2016-06

The Safe Boating Guide Applies to You

The open water season is near so preparation for boating will start soon. A helpful place to begin is with a checkup on the boating regulations that apply to pleasure craft as explained in the Safe Boating Guide. Anyone with a Pleasure Craft Operator's Card should already know the rules. Help Sylvan Lake by applying them. As Sylvan Lake …

President’s Annual Report for 2015

State of the Watershed 2015 The Society monitored and reported on the water quality and lake level of Sylvan Lake as each topic is important to members and visitors to the watershed. We also tracked precipitation in 2015 as the key environmental variable that determines runoff into the lake. The LakeWatch report on the 2014 …

Join the Watershed Stewardship Society

Here is the text of a message recently sent to members of the Society. Some computers and devices have not received all the electronic content correctly, so it is reproduced here. Click on all the active links to read all the news and to discover what's been happening. Please note that memberships may be renewed, or …

Annual Meeting 2014

President Graeme Strathdee presented the following annual report on SLWSS projects and activities during the last year: Monitoring Sylvan Lake Tributaries The Golf Course Creek Project funded by the Land Stewardship Centre, and the Northwest Creek Project co-funded by the SLWSS and the member municipalities of the Sylvan Lake Management Committee have collected data on …