News &amp; Events

June 9, 2025

Coffee and Donuts – 2025 Spring Newsletter

2025 is off to a roaring start at TIWLT, and our Spring Newsletter is here to get you filled in…

November 30, 2024

2024 Year End Update Newsletter with lots to share.

To share all the very exciting things happening at Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust, we have created a newsletter with…

News Projects

August 28, 2024

Charleston Lake – Saving a Special Place

In the heart of the Thousand Islands Watershed is a dramatically green and blue landscape, with Charleston Lake at its…

News Resources

June 25, 2024

$ave Some Green (VOD)

... is an intentional play on words. Tools to save nature and money. Together. Over some 30 years, the Thousand…

News Resources

April 4, 2024

Conservation Café with Caleb Musgrave (VOD)

Deep Roots: The History and Future of our Forests Caleb Musgrave joins our Conservation Café to walk us through the…

News Resources

April 4, 2024

Conservation Café (VOD) Case Study: Whip-poor-will Woods

TIWLT has purchased a key piece of property called Whip-poor-will Woods (WPWW) that will protect water quantity and quality from…

February 9, 2024

Conservation Café with Calder Schweitzer (VOD)

Calder Schweitzer, Executive Director of the Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust is the host of our first Conservation Café for…

January 5, 2024

Pawpaw Asimina triloba

Pawpaw is a rare Carolinian species of tree native to the United States and eastern Canada. In Ontario, it…

December 6, 2023

Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund (CSRF) helps build Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust

The Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust (TIWLT) is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of $100,000 from the…

November 7, 2023

Ontario Trillium Grant sets Glen Elbe Learning Centre up for extended Real World Learning opportunities.

On Monday November 6, local MPP Steve Clark met with TIWLT at the Glen Elbe Learning Centre (GELC) east of…

June 23, 2023

Mackintosh Property Walk

Join us for a walk around the Mackintosh Property on July 18th at 9:30am! We hope to spot some turtles…

June 6, 2023

TED TALK

Earlier this year, our Executive Director Calder spoke about Climate Change at the Queens University Ted Talk. Calder spoke about "how land…

May 15, 2023

TIWLT May Plant Sale

ATHENS, Ontario - The Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust (TIWLT) will be hosting a plant sale on May 27th from…

April 25, 2023

Science Café – Maggie Stevenson on Invasive Plants (VOD)

April's Science Café featured TIWLT's own Wildlife Biologist, Maggie Stevenson! Maggie talks about the ecology of some of Ontario's most…

April 25, 2023

Science Café – Bryan Scholes on Bird Photography (VOD)

February's Science Café featured local wildlife photographer Bryan Scholes. He speaks on some of the tools and tricks of the…

News Projects

December 30, 2022

Thanking Conservation Heroes Dick and Bonnie Mabee

Hidden away from major roads is this 169-acre headwater property, where the waters flow to Charleston Lake and its surroundings.…

September 2, 2022

Science Café – Paul Coté on the History of Glen Elbe (VOD)

Our August Science Café features local historian Paul Coté who took us on a deep dive of the Elbe area's…

August 17, 2022

Science Café – Maggie and Fox on Summer Fieldwork (VOD)

In July of 2022, TIWLT Summer Staff Maggie Stevenson and Fox Creighton hosted a Science Café, outlining all of the…

June 9, 2022

Science Café – Mathieu LeCompte on Turtles in the Thousand Islands (VOD)

On May 24, 2022, Mathieu LeCompte of Thousand Islands National Park joined us to give a talk on turtles in…

April 29, 2022

Science Café – Calder Schweitzer on The Science of Species Interactions (VOD)

On April 22, 2022, Executive Director Calder Schweitzer hosted a talk discussing the science of species interactions and the concepts…

February 17, 2022

Science Café – Chris Wooding on “The Backyard Planet” (VOD)

On February 15 2022, owner of Ironwood Organics Chris Wooding gave a talk on "The Backyard Planet", a deep dive…

January 31, 2022

Science Café – Don Ross on Green Infrastructure (VOD)

On January 18, 2022, TIWLT President Don Ross gave a talk on Green Infrastructure as part of TIWLT's Science Café…

October 1, 2021

Trevelyan Farm Project Update

The Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust is happy to announce that the Trevelyan Farm Project is complete, adding more than…