Third Annual New Brunswick Lakes Conference
Eastern Charlotte Waterways hosted the third Annual New Brunswick Lakes Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Inspiring Stewardship.’ The goal of the event was to help establish a foundation on which to build New Brunswick’s future lake stewardship efforts. The conference connected professionals, academics and community representatives from across the province and Living Lakes Canada’s program coordinator, Ryan van der Marel, provided a keynote presentation about water stewardship across the nation, highlighting exciting successes and notable challenges.
Eastern Charlotte Waterways is a not-for-profit, environmental resource and research centre based in Blacks Harbour. Its mandate calls for collaboration with like-minded organizations to promote community well-being through sound environmental health. This is accomplished by facilitating projects that integrate common social, economic and environmental concerns.
Related: Eastern Charlotte Waterways Executive Director, Donald Killorn, blogs on ‘Our Living Waters’ about his watershed for 2014 Canada Water Week.
