Historical Archives

Our first year of promoting and arranging for shoreline advisors to visit Halls and Hawk Lake properties was most successful. The visits were held on the somewhat rainy weekend of August 21 and 22. In order to handle the requests we received from members Lakeland Alliance, who runs the program, assigned two advisors to our [...]

During a recent Coalition for Equitable Waterflow (CEWF) meeting I attended, Dave Ness from the TSW mentioned that all dams on the waterway now had automated devices to read water levels.  They are powered by solar and provide real-time levels.  These devices are intended to help TSW operations manage the levels more effectively by ensuring [...]

The Lake Trout fishing season has ended as of Sept 30th. One can begin fishing for Lake Trout on the first day of the new year on January 1 when the season opens. There are special regulations for Halls lake when ice fishing after Jan. 1;  only 1 line is to be used and one [...]

From the Haliburton County Voice – September 30, 2010 By Liz Danielsen When it came to water levels, this spring and summer was an extremely interesting experience for everyone along the Trent-Severn Waterway, but especially for the people trying to manage a very complex system and for those on reservoir and flow through lakes throughout [...]

CEWF has provided us with a great update on all of the things they have been working on.  Take a couple of minutes to read their report – amongst other interesting points, it has a good section on the surprising water fluctuations we have seen this past summer.  Click here to read on…

On June 8th 2010 Joan Chisholm a long time Director of the Association passed away. Joan and her husband John purchased land on Big Hawk Lake in 1957 and shortly after built a cottage which is now in the hands of their son Chris. Not long after arriving on Big Hawk Joan became a Director [...]

The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust is pleased to announce our grant application to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Species at Risk Stewardship Fund has been approved. Six birds – new species at risk (SAR) have been added and indentified in Haliburton County: the Whip-poor-will, Chimney Swift, Canada Warbler, Common Nighthawk, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and Bald [...]

There is no need to worry about algae that, until last week, had been covering part of the Kennisis River between Big Hawk and Halls lakes. That is the message from Michael Longpre, senior environmental officer with the Peterborough Environment Ministry, who visited the river last week. By the time of Longpre’s visit, the algae [...]

Your executive has been working hard throughout the year and is eager to update you at the Annual General Meeting on their progress on key issues such as…..

The attached letter is the response we received from Dawn Bronson, the Field Superintendent for Park Canada. Although I don’t expect any significant change in either Parks Canada’s water management policies, they have at least taken some steps to fill the lakes to a better level, albeit mostly with the assistance of all the rain [...]