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Stewardship 

What is Stewardship?

Stewardship means to take good care of something. It requires sound planning and informed choices to ensure continuous improvement in environmental, health, and safety and social performance. With the responsible and careful use of the natural environment around us we can become good stewards of Muskoka.

Stewardship can also be a personal commitment to care for your land, sustaining or enhancing it for the enjoyment of future generations. Stewardship programs encourage landowners to manage their lands in ways that maintain, restore or enhance the diversity of native plants and wildlife.

Why is Watershed Stewardship Important?

Watershed stewardship involves understanding and respecting the interrelatedness of the watershed. It will provide significant benefits for current and future generations.

Maintaining a natural balance in the watershed reduces the likelihood of environmental deterioration and the need for expensive remedial action plans. In the long run, proper stewardship is cost effective with economic and environmental savings in the preservation of our natural watershed.

Stewardship is the best insurance policy a landowner can have to ensure long-term protection of the investment made in shoreline property.