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The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation was founded in 1998 with the goals of protecting and restoring Lake Huron's coastal environment and promoting a healthy coastal ecosystem.

While many environmental advocacy groups address local issues within the region, the Coastal Centre is the only grassroots organization focused on protecting the coastal environment lake-wide.

We also recognize that our work has to include the economic and social dimensions of sustainability. We believe that our coastal communities cannot have a healthy economy unless they have a healthy environment.

Our Priorities

• Water Quality
  The quality of our near-shore coastal waters and estuaries has become a point of great concern to the Lake Huron community in recent years.

• Coastal Processes
  Coastal processes like water level fluctuations, flooding, erosion, coastal wetland processes, and beach and dune systems, are vital to the ecology of Lake Huron.

• Climate Change
  Climate change has far reaching implications for the Lake Huron environment. All of us who work, rest or play along the Lake Huron coast will be affected.

• Biodiversity
  The biological diversity of Lake Huron’s coast is being compromised by over-development, fragmentation of forest areas, the spread of alien invasive species, and damage to sensitive coastal environments.

Closer to Home

We help local groups with environmental issues in their own communities. By helping people link with groups along other parts of the lake, the Centre serves as a vital bridge between local issues and the larger bio-region:

• All our programs are rooted in a firm commitment to open dialogue and respectful listening, building effective partnerships, and making stewardship and sustainability real in our daily lives.

• We seek agreement on a positive vision and collaboration; where that isn't possible, we maintain respectful relationships from which these can emerge in the future.

• All of our work is about caring for our coastal environment in practical ways that can improve the health of the lake, its coastlands and its people. We take the big issues that affect our region and bring them to life at the local grassroots level.

The Coastal Centre is a registered not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the conservation of Lake Huron's natural shoreline environment. The Coastal Centre functions as the local coastal management resource team for lakeshore communities, partnering conservation authorities, government agencies and the public.