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TLB is hiring a Digital Communications Technician

September 3, 2019 by Leora Leave a Comment

We are hiring!

Title: Digital Communications Technician

Specifications:

30 hours a week; 6 months from October to March

Skills/Background and Qualifications:

Background, experience and training/education Environmental Science and/or Biology/Conservation Ecology

Background, experience and training/education in Environmental Visual Communications

Ability to work independently and in a team

Own transportation

Adept at Adobe software

Responsibilities:

Communicating the work of the charity to public audiences.

Communications strategy design. Content development.

Digital recording of charity work, programs, and elements through all relevant media of photography, video and audio. Production and editing of media. Content, communications (brand and messaging) and layout design for printed and social media products.

Social media, mail-out, and e-news coordination and management

Apply by email with covering letter and resume detailing how you meet each and all qualifications; to Leora Berman at info@thelandbetween.ca by September 30

This opportunity is offered as part of the Government of Canada’s Digital Skills for Youth Program.

Free Shoreline Naturalization Site Visits and Garden Plans

August 1, 2019 by Leora 4 Comments

Do you have a lawn down to the shore? If so, you may qualify for a free site visit and a shoreline starter kit, which, at $250.00 is deeply reduced offering of 50 shoreline plants, tree guards, planting guide, mulch and coconut fibre bundles too!

To book a site visit, contact Leora at info@thelandbetween.ca

Also this summer, as we do each summer, The Land Between is offering our most popular workshop to landowners and lake associations: The Design Your Own Shoreline Garden workshop is an exciting workshop where landowners receive knowledge, advise and walk away with custom native garden designs for their shore. Book a workshop by calling Leora at 705-457-1222 or emailing info@thelandbetween.ca

The Annual General Meeting

July 19, 2019 by Leora Leave a Comment

Join us for our Annual General Meeting on August 27th from 2 to 5 pm at the new Land Between Field Office and Turtle Guardian Headquarters in Haliburton. Located at 6712 Gelert Road, next to the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association and Hatchery.

The Annual General Meeting will review all the work and achievements of 2018, will include presentations from field staff on our Turtle Reasearch, and will employ a Traditional Talking Circle to help decipher and choose the road ahead.

This event is open to the public. Please RSVP to Leora by calling 705-457-1222 or emailing info@thelandbetween.ca

Turtle Research in Full Swing in The Land Between

July 3, 2019 by Leora Leave a Comment

Since early June The Land Between through the Turtle Guardians program and Scales Nature Park have been involved in turtle-research. Ecologists and biologists have been hired for the summer to “run the roads” across Simcoe, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Haliburton, north Peterborough, and City of Kawartha Lakes to assess where and how many turtles are travelling, crossing, and also being injured on roads. “The data will give us a picture of what changes and fixes need to take place to save turtles in these areas” says Leora Berman, COO of The Land Between and coordinator of the Turtle Guardians program. In addition to road surveys, the crew will assess the relative health of turtles found in the area through wetland and habitat reconnaissance and, under permits issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ministry of the Environment, Climate Change and Parks, to take body condition measurements , and to estimate sex ratios and age classes of turtles here.

Leora says, “community members can also help.” The Team are offering training for community volunteers to monitor wetlands, roads, nest sites and aid in other Citizen Science and conservation efforts. To support the initiative, simply log on to turtleguardians.ca and register as a guardian, or send Leora an email through info@thelandbetween.ca, leora@turtleguardians.ca or text her at 705-854-3578

Stewardship Excellence for Lakes – The New Blue Lakes Pilot Project

January 10, 2019 by Leora Leave a Comment

Thanks to a seed grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, The Land Between in partnership with Watersheds Canada will launch a pilot project to understand the benefits of a new eco-label. The Blue Lakes project delivers an eco-label that will be awarded to lakes that voluntarily undertake stewardship actions. This pilot project is being tailored, launched, and evaluated to see if we can transfer the model across Ontario and beyond. The project has a great team of supporters who are helping to design and implement the label of 20 lake associations, and Trent University and University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

If you want to be part of the pilot project, get in touch with us by emailing Leora at info@thelandbetween.ca

Also, find out more by visiting the project website: www.bluelakes.ca

The Donald Chemical/Building Between Project On-Hold…Forever?

August 26, 2018 by Leora 1 Comment

The building affectionately called The Donald Chemical, built in 1908, is an important antique building with national significance. For many years the building was left, by its owner, to deteriorate. In 2009 it was taken for tax sale, and that is when a collaborative of charities stepped in…While the charities’ cooperative venture made progress, and in only 3 short years the building received provincial attention and the efforts were sufficient to secure the building so that it could stand for another 100 years, a treasure hunt for blueprints began and search for new solutions to an ancient puzzle ensued. Yet what was most elusive may have simply been, patience …

See the project update as of August 31, 2018 on the main page of BuildingBetween.ca

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