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Program Timelines
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Program Timelines

YEAR

PLUARG	Pollution from Land UseActivities Reference Group	GLWQ	Great Lakes Water Quality Program
TRIC	Thames River Implementation Committee	NSCP SQEP	National Soil Conservation Program Soil Quality Evaluation Program
SAREMP	Stratford - Avon River Environmental Management Project	LMAP	Land Management Assistance Program
RBS / CURB	Rural Beaches Strategy / Clean Up Rural Beaches	ESI	Environmental Sustainability Initiative
SWEEP	Soil & Water Environmental Enhancement Program (including Tillage 2000 & OSCEPAP II)	AEI	Agri-Environmental Indicator Project
LS I / LS II	Land Stewardship Program	Green Plan	Canada-Ontario Agriculture Green Plan
LSEMS	Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy		Master Cross-Reference Table for Program Components

Archived Environmental Report Lists

1,052 REPORTS

Archive Main Library (323)
Clean Up Rural Beaches (CURB) Reports (79)
Stratford-Avon River Environmental Program (SAREMP) Reports (32)
Thames River Implementation Committee (TRIC) Reports (7)
Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy (42)
AAFC Agri-Environmental Indicator Project (27)
Land Use Planning & Sustainable Development (23)

Reports NOT directly associated with Archived Programs
Ont. Ministry of Environment- Funded Reports (250)
O.M.E Biological Investigations / Surveys Reports (115)
Misc. Federal Environmental Reports (135) (oldest report... 1886; 17 reports before 1940)
PLUS Can. Agri-Food Res. Council - related Reports + Climate Change Reports (19)

Featured Documents / Reports

Fifty Years of Progress on Dominion Experimental Farms: 1886 - 1936. 1939. [2513 KB]
The Health of Our Soils: Towards Sustainble Agriculture in Canada. 1995. [1080 KB]
The Health of Our Air: Towards Sustainble Agriculture in Canada. 1999. [3257 KB]
The Health of Our Water: Towards Sustainble Agriculture in Canada. 2000. [2801 KB]
Developing Agri-Environmental Indicators for Canada: General Proposal. June 1994. T. McRae [52 KB]
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Canadian Agriculture: Options Report, (Jan. 2000; Pub #: 2028/E), AAFC Climate Change Table [740 KB]
Climate Change Foundation Paper (Spring 1999). AAFC Climcate Change Table [341 KB]
Indicator of Risk of Water Contamination: Concepts and Principles. Mar.,1995. K.B. MacDonald et al.[69 KB]
Design and Development of Environmental Indicators with Reference to Canadian Agriculture. Sept. 1995. T. McRae et al. [1370 KB]
Developing Agri-Environmental Indicators for Canada: General Proposal. June 1994. T. McRae [52 KB]
Reducing Non-Energy Greenhouse Gases. November 1994. VHB-Hickling. [501 KB] (199 pages)
Degrees of Change: Steps Towards an Ontario Global Warming Strategy. June 1991. Ont. Global Warming Coalition [1561 KB] (numerous statistics data tables)
The State of Canada's Climate: Temperature Change In Canada 1895-1991. July 1992. D.W. Gullett & W.R. Skinner [1430 KB]
MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE; 1996 update on initiatives in Ontario to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Dec., 1996. [281 KB]
Measures to Address Climate Change in Ontario Government Operations. November, 1997 [275 KB]
Lake Simcoe and its Environs. 1 July, 1893. A.F. Hunter. Interesting overview of the Lake Simcoe Region in late 1800s. 47p.

Reports Related to Lake Erie

Observations on the Nature & Control of Excessive Growth of Cladophora sp. in Lake Ontario & Lake Erie. 1960. D.A. McLarty [83 KB]
Cladophora Investigations: Observations on the Nature and Control of Excessive Growth of Cladophora sp. in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. 1962. J.H. Neil [433 KB]
Phytoplankton Conditions In The Nanticoke Area Of Lake Erie, 1969 - 1971. Oct. 1972. M.F.P. Michalski [1181KB]
Phytoplankton Conditions in the Nanticoke Area of Lake Erie, 1972-1974. Dec. 1975. G.J. Hopkins. [970 KB]
Inventory Of Land Use & Land Use Practices In The Canadian Great Lakes Basin (Dec. 1977) [289 KB] (IJC: ID477.pdf) (PLUARG)
Investigation of Water Quality in the Leamington Area of Western Lake Erie, 1973-1976. 1978. Y.S. Hamdy & J.D. Kinkead [634 KB]
Bacteriological Studies of the Lake Erie Nearshore and Embayments (1973) & the Mouth of the Grand River (1975-76). April 1978. [1241 KB]
An Assessment of the Bottom Fauna and Sediments of the Western Basin of Lake Erie, 1979. [515 KB]
Phytoplankton Studies in the Nanticoke Area of Lake Erie, 1969-1978. Nov. 1979. G.J. Hopkins & C. Lea
[313 KB]
Recent Changes in the Phytoplankton of Lakes Erie and Ontario. April, 1980. K.H. Nicholls. [1579 KB]
A Water Quality Assessment of Lake Erie Harbours. Oct. 1981. Proctor & Redfern Ltd. [1721 KB]
Biological Availability of Phosphorus. Great Lakes Science Advisory Board. 1981 [157 KB]
Phytoplankton Conditions in the Nanticoke Area of Lake Erie, 1975 - 1978. Sept. 1981. C. J. Hopkins. [1975 KB]
A Survey of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Near the Mouth of the Grand River, Lake Erie, 1981. January, 1983. D.R. Barton [ 221 KB]
Water Quality Studies of Rondeau Bay and Watershed, Kent County, Ontario. 1982. [1185 KB]
The Spatial Distribution of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Residues in the Sediments of Inner Long Point Bay, Lake Erie. Feb. 1983. D.I. Ross & Y. Hamdy. [785 KB]
A Fifteen Year Study of Phytoplankton Biomass and Compostion in the Nanticoke Region of Long Point Bay, Lake Erie. July 1985. G.J. Hopkins, G. Lea. [497 KB]
The Use Of Aquatic Vegetation and Invertebrates to Monitor Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in the Lake Huron - Lake Erie Corridor. August, 1991. D. Haffner, F. Gobas, P. Hebert. (184 p) [2029 KB]
Recent Changes in Lake Erie (North Shore) Phytoplankton: Cumulative Impacts of Phosphorus Loading Reduction and the Zebra Mussel Introduction. Feb., 1994. K.H. Nicholls & G.J Hopkins [713 KB]
Biology and Impact of Zebra Mussels in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. Oct 1995. G.L. Mackie et al. [3355 KB]
Kettle Creek/ Lake Erie Task Force: Water Quality Summary Report (1995) Lori McMaster, Kettle Creek C.A.
[1176 KB]
Western Lake Erie Clean up: Phosphorus Control or Zebra Mussel Effect? - An Example of the Value of Long-term Data. August, 1996. K.H Nicholls. [186 KB]
Occurrence of the Alga Cladophora along the North Shore of Eastern Lake Erie, 1995. Dec. 1998. T. Howell. [367 KB]

Use the Google Search ABOVE to find additional reports related to Lake Erie.

Recent Additions to the Archive

19 Reports from Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy - Implementation Program (1985- )
21 Reports related to Land Use Planning & Sustainable Development
Bibliography of Reports Issued Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements of 1972 and 1978, and the Protocol Amending the 1978 Agreement. July 1990. [106 KB] (incl.PLUARG reports)
A Bibliography of Canadian Soil Science. Pub. 1452. 1971. H.J. Atkinson. [776 KB] (3444 references up to 1969, Indexed author & subject lists)
Fifty Years of Progress on Dominion Experimental Farms: 1886 - 1936. 1939. [2513 KB]
Botryotina and Botrytis Species: Taxonomy, Physiology and Pathogenicity. Monograph No. 15, 1977. W.R. Jarvis. [715 KB] (208p, extensive review & references)
Phytoplankton Studies in the Nanticoke Area of Lake Erie, 1969-1978. Nov. 1979. G.J. Hopkins & C. Lea
[313 KB]
Phytoplankton Conditions In The Nanticoke Area Of Lake Erie, 1969 - 1971. Oct.1972. M.F.P. Michalski [1181 KB]
The Acidification Of Ontario Lakes: An Assessment Of Their Sensitivity And Current Status With Respect To Biological Damage, January 1990. B.P. Neary et al. [3703 KB] (71 graphs, 38 tables + numerous Appendix data tables)
Report on Environmental Research, Technology Development and Awareness Activities, 1991/92. Oct. 1992 [848 KB] (list of about 900 projects)
Ontario Soil Baseline Survey, Analytical Data 1980-1981. Vol. 1, Soil Baseline Program. Nov., 1984 M.A. Griffith et al. [967 KB]
Ontario Soil Baseline Survey. Analytical Data 1980-1981. Vol. 3. Analytical Data For Northern Ontario. Nov., 1984. M.A. Griffith et al. [1303 KB]
A Framework for Discussion on the Environment - (Prelude to the Green Plan in 1990) [229 KB]
A Report on Canada's Progress Towards a National Set of Environmental Indicators. SOE Reporting. January 1991 [2908 KB]
Development Of Prediction Models For Chemical Phosphorus Removal, Volume II. 1978. B.P. Prested et al. [435 KB]
1987 Conservation Trial Report. Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association. [129 KB]
Quality Control Handbook For Pilot Watershed Studies. PLUARG, July 1975 [181KB]
Quality Control Handbook For Pilot Watershed Studies-rev1977, Mar. 1977 [442 KB]
Biological Availability of Phosphorus. Great Lakes Science Advisory Board. 1981 [157 KB]

Other Links

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Advanced Manure Management Technologies For Ontario Program (AMMTO) (2001)
Ron Fleming Collection of Manure & Water Quality Research Papers (1990 - 2009)
N.K. Patni Collection of Manure Research Papers (1978 - 2002)

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