In addition to reflecting Guelph’s community values, the City’s Natural Heritage Action Plan supports our Strategic Plan and Official Plan by prioritizing goals, policies, guidelines and actions designed to maintain, enhance and restore woodlands, wetlands, watercourses, valley lands and meadows, surface water and groundwater features in Guelph.
Actions completed 2019
- Guelph is a designated Bee City in partnership with Pollination Guelph
- Guelph’s wildlife refuge protocol helps protect and preserve wildlife when cleaning stormwater ponds
- Guelph’s Natural Heritage Advisory Committee provides input on City-led natural heritage conservation initiatives
- Improved information about environmental stewardship on City website
Actions completed 2020
- Adopt-a-space community stewardship program
- Ecological technical guidelines for road ecology, bird-friendly design, construction impact mitigation, trails, natural area offsetting and soil health
- Low impact development standards for stormwater management
- Natural heritage data management system
- Stormwater management monitoring program
- Subwatershed study prioritization framework
- Weather monitoring station network
Actions completed 2022
For more information
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