Links

Water Quality

Find Secchi Disc and Phosphorus information for individual lakes on this MOE page

Information about invading species in Ontario http://www.invadingspecies.com/indexen.cfm

The Dorset Environmental Science Centre contains information and data on various lake's volunteer water sampling for Secchi Disc and Phosphorus .under the Lake Partner Banner

Parks Canada Trent Severn Waterway Water Levels for Canning Lake.  Go to: Accept disclaimer/ Burnt River Watershed/ Canning Lake.

Government & Associations

Ministry of the Environment. The general link to this set of government pages where they have many interesting reports 

The Federation of Ontario Cottagers Associations FOCA is an organization that follows and supports many lake organization issues. 705.749.3622

The Township of Minden Hills site will allow you to search for reports, history and other news about your local government.  705.286.1260

Environment Haliburton is a site that is dedicated to help us all protect and support the ecology and natural environment in Haliburton county.

The Haliburton County web site will give you access to county wide issues and information.

Pest Alerts is a government food inspection web site to inform you about pests, food alerts and invading species that may be headed our way.

Haliburton Web Cam is mounted on the hill above the village of Haliburton and looks our over Head lake past the village. This is a link to the static view so it will not take a long time to open on slower dialup service. You can change the page once open to the live motion view, which refreshes frequently.

TheHaliburton Highlands Outdoors Association is a non profit volunteer organization that is committed to sustainable natural resource management. They operate the Haliburton Fish Hatchery and the Haliburton Lake Trout Project as well as other initiatives.

Property taxes and assessments www.captr.org

www.foca.on.ca/fire-smart Fire Smart for articles of interest about fire safety in Ontario's waterfront communities. 705.249.3622

www.BoatsmartExam.com or call 1.877.792.3926 ext 214

Coalition for Equitable Water Flow (water levels) www.cewf.ca

Home emergency Prepardness: www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/video/esk_english.html     1.888.795.7635

Haliburton Fish Hatchery http://www.hhoa.on.ca/about.html

Local Media

The Minden Times is a local newspaper that will allow you to see and read about top stories in the area.

The Haliburton Echo is another local newspaper with an alternate view to some of the same stories.

CThe Highlander is a local independently owned newspaper.

Weather

The Stanhope Airport site has detailed weather information is you wish to see current information as well as highs and lows from the last 24 hours

Environment Canada www.ec.gc.ca or call 1.800.668.6767

.Tornadoes (General Information): www.pnr-rpn.ec.gc.ca/air/summersevere/ae00s02en.html

Summer sever weather warnings information: www.on.ec.gtc.ca/severe-weather/summerwx_factsheet_e.html

Cottage Days General Interest

For dates and times of the International Space Station passes and other satellite information go to www.heavens-above.com