It's Canada Agriculture Literacy Month! During this event, put on by Agriculture in the Classroom, volunteers and professionals are matched up with grades 2-4 classrooms to teach kids about agriculture. 🌾 This years theme is "What's in your lunch?"

The Seine River IWMP outlines 6 main issues to improve watershed health. #1: Surface water management #2: Surface water quality #3: Groundwater #4: Management of the Seine River #5: Land Use Planning #6: Watershed Awareness

The Rat Marsh Watershed has two main rivers. Beginning in Sandilands Provincial Forest and travels West, then North West, meeting the Red River at St Agathe. The landscape is fairly flat, prone to flooding, and consists of plenty of forests, crown lands, hay and pasture.

Although freshwater ecosystems are so important, they are the most threatened in the world.💧 Organizations like saveourseine.com are fighting for the protection and enhancement of rivers.

Runoff water can pick up sediments and pollutants (oil from cars, fertilizers from lawns, and salt from deicing roads) as it runs down hill. The goal of storm water management is to reduce the amount of storm water runoff or decrease the speed of it's flow.

We still need more volunteers to make the Eastern Regional for Envirothon an amazing day!! Please check out the registration link to see how you can help! permission.click/XjzxX/ca

Today we're celebrating the crucial roles of forests! Forests support soil fertility, protect water resources, and offer habitats for biodiversity, including vital pollinators and are essential for the survival of forest-dependent communities.

We're giving away trees again! 🌳🌲🌳 They went FAST last year, so make sure to get your orders in as soon as possible! srrwd.ca/2025/03/24/202…

Surface water management is about managing runoff, water that is not absorbed into the ground and continues downstream. This can be managed in urban areas by developing rain gardens and vegetated swales (a well planted ditch).

The Roseau River Watershed District is a diverse watershed that contains several permanent wetlands that hold onto water, capture runoff and recharge groundwater, creating vital habitat for wildlife, water foul, and aquatic species.

How to protect water quality: practice proper disposal of wastes (oil, paints, medicines and cleaners), reduce fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticide use, and properly maintain septic systems.

Beavers are amazing at what they do and have the ability to change landscapes and improve ecosystems. We try our best to build water retentions to replicate what beavers do, but there's nothing quite like a good old beaver dam! 🦫

The Roseau River Integrated Watershed Management Plan outlines 4 watershed priorities for the region: Surface Water Management, Groundwater Quality and Quantity, Surface Water Quality, and Ecosystem Health and Natural Areas.

There are 5 key ways that we can implement Stormwater Management: 1. Shape the land's surface 2. Minimize impervious surfaces 3. Capture stormwater for reuse 4. Protect catch basins from sediment and pollutants 5. Plant deep-rooted native species

Riparian areas in their natural states provide water filtration, slowed runoff, enhanced biodiversity, preservation of natural vegetation, habitat and food supply and shoreline stability.

Joey started with us in 2019 as the Watershed Assistant before becoming the GROW/ALUS coordinator, eventually taking over as District Manager in 2022. When he's not working, Joey is rooting on his Winnipeg Blue Bombers or at the golf course #SRRWD #OurTeam #DistrictManager

Happy Easter from all of us at SRRWD 🐰🌸

The Alternative Land Use Systems (ALUS) exemplifies the phrase "Farm the best, leave the rest." The programming aims to improve water quality by reducing nutrient runoff, reduce soil erosion, and providing carbon sequestration. srrwd.ca/funding/

This Earth Days theme is Our Power, Our Planet! Some ways to celebrate Earth Day include: reducing your carbon emissions in the way we produce power, encouraging the move towards renewable sources like wind and solar, and using electricity wisely.

We're looking forward to hosting the 2025 Eastern Regional Envirothon tomorrow! 9 teams will be competing at the Tourond Creek Discovery Centre and we are excited to see all the the learning and fun that's going to happen!