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March 26, 2026 Public open houses were held in Port Rowan (March 24th), Port Stanley (March 25th) and Rodney (March 26th). Each day featured two 2-hour sessions that were well attended and filled with lively discussion and engagement. Representatives from Long Point Biosphere Region, Canada Water Agency and Zuzek Inc. were on hand to speak

January 10, 2026 Partners from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN), Zuzek Inc. and the Long Point Biosphere Region (LPBR) gathered to assemble beachgrass micronurseries. Native beachgrass is essential for building healthy beaches, but is currently not available in sufficient quantities for most dune restoration projects. These micronurseries were planted with seed gathered

December 9, 2025 Fencing was installed at the Pines Parkway municipal access path in Long Point.  This path was previously planted with native grasses and trees, with support from surrounding landowners.  The vegetation assists in reducing wind blown sand to both the road and adjacent properties, in addition to building protection against storm surges and

November 5, 2025 Community volunteers gathered to plant native grasses (beachgrass, Switchgrass, Little Blue Stem) and trees (Cottonwoods, Eastern Red Cedar) on the Port Burwell municipal beach.  The North Shore Resilience Project area reaches from Port Glasgow to Long Point, spanning seven municipalities each with their own unique connection to the coast.  Each community within

October 27, 2025 Port Bruce community volunteers gathered to plant Switchgrass, Little Blue Stem and Cottonwoods at the Port Bruce municipal beach.  This beach is already well vegetated and healthy, so adding defined access paths with protective fencing was an important aspect of the Port Bruce project.  Additional vegetation was planted by volunteers to improve

October 17, 2025 Community volunteers and staff from the Long Point Biosphere Region and Zuzek Inc. planted native vegetation including Beachgrass, Little Blue Stem, Switchgrass and Cottonwood trees to encourage dune formation on both municipal and private properties. Healthy dunes create a barrier against natural coastal hazards, such as flooding and erosion. Dunes are a

October 16, 2025 Beachgrass plants and seeds were collected from a healthy, dense population of grass located in the Long Point National Wildlife Area. Beachgrass native to the Great Lakes region is better suited to building dunes in the North Shore Resilience Project area, and provides improved biodiversity outcomes when compared to non-native grasses. This

October 1-2, 2025 The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) met for two days to tour the project area and review the data collection, methodology and preliminary analysis conducted over the summer months. Members include coastal engineers and coastal scientists who actively research coastal changes, sediment transport in the nearshore and hydraulic modeling (see the Governance page

Summer 2025 Throughout the summer and early autumn of 2025, field work was conducted to collect the data necessary to: better understand the changes occurring in the bluffs and nearshore, build the sediment budget and develop the hydrologic model of sediment transport within the project area. This included: Collecting lake bottom samples and having the