Lake Huron North

What we Do

We work together in a coordinated effort with local community groups, landowners, and the public service, to protect and improve overall water quality and habitats in/around the St. Marys River and West North Channel of Lake Huron.

our funders

Lake Huron North is currently supported by the Ontario Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks, under the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health. We also rely on project-based funding opportunities and in-kind support from our partners to implement many of our community activities.

Vision

We work together in a coordinated effort with local community groups, landowners, and the public service, to protect and improve overall water quality in the St. Marys River and North West Channel of Lake Huron and to provide information related to this effort.

Mission

We coordinate and collaborate on actions that support water quality objectives in Lake Huron and the St. Marys River. We increase the engagement and capacities of local persons.

Values

Lake Huron North members and collaborators uphold four core values in all projects: collaboration, diversity and inclusion, community-based stewardship, and global thinking. These values are described below.

Collaboration: We co-create knowledge, projects, and goals with local community groups, landowners, and the public service.

Diversity and inclusion: We respect and foster diversity and inclusivity, both within and outside the Collaborative (e.g., staffing that represents diversity, collaborations with BIPOC communities and organizations).

Community-based stewardship: We recognize the immense value that water has for each person, organization, and community, and we promote shared stewardship and responsibility of our local waters.

Global thinking: As stewards of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, we recognize our greater responsibility to ensure it is not degraded. We act in recognition that water is experienced and valued differently worldwide.

Our Code of Ethics

In everything we do, we expect our members and collaborators to act with the following ethics:

Conduct practices toward others with courtesy and good faith.
Engage in respectful communications.
Act with integrity and sense of responsibility, both of our day-to-day actions but also with our decisions regarding fresh water.
Complete obligations to the best of our ability.
Behave within the law.

Exercise due diligence to represent information in a factual, politically neutral manner, and disclose sources of information.
Be transparent and declare conflicts of interest.
Protect vulnerable sectors of the population.
Safeguard confidential information.

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