Are you a post-secondary graduate looking to gain some experience in the environmental field? Come work with our team of watershed enthusiasts on a wide range of projects.

The Restoration and Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for our riparian restoration projects within the watershed. The selected candidate will coordinate the Landowner Conservation Program, including report-writing and budgets. S/he will co-lead education programming for children and youth in both the public school and summer camp setting with grades 3 and 4 as the primary focus. The position will include time spent in the field – assisting with culvert assessments, field trips, restoration projects, work in the tree nursery, and water quality monitoring. S/he will assist in representing the organization at external events, and be active in the planning, development and implementation of NWAI sponsored events. The project assistant will represent the association at special events in rural communities in our watershed e.g. Stanley Fair, Nashwaak Music Festival and Taymouth Community Market.

The application deadline is Friday, February 21st.

To celebrate National Tree Day we planted 80 trees on the Stanley Fairgrounds with community members. There were participants from the Stanley Agricultural Society, Stanley Mutual Insurance Company, Ms Humble’s grade 8 class, the Stanley High basketball team and NWAI members & volunteers.

Restoring our riverbanks provides habitat for wildlife and helps fight climate change by sequestering carbon, shading streams, and improving air and water quality. Since 2005, the NWAI has planted at least 30,000 trees, shrubs, and live stakes, restoring over 7 km of shoreline along the Nashwaak and its tributaries with the help of many funders and volunteers over the years.

We would also like to thank our funders; the NB Environmental Trust Fund, the NB Wildlife Trust Fund, Wildlife Habitat Canada, Eco-Action Community Funding Program (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and LUSH Cosmetics. We would like to thank all of our in-kind partners as well ~ the Stanley Agricultural Society provided the restoration site and opened their doors to the community, providing warm apple cider and home-baked cookies. The Canadian Forest Service donated 10 butternut trees for National Tree Day.

The NWAI repaired a 40m section of eroding riverbank bank on Nashwaak Valley Farms in Penniac. We installed a rock toe to prevent undercutting and re-sloped the bank to allow water to spill over into the floodplain. We will plant native grasses, shrubs, and trees. This restoration was part of a larger Atlantic Ecosystems Initiative project taking place in the lower Wolatoq watershed. A number of watershed groups are working on a Restoration Handbook and Toolkit that will be available in spring 2020.

It is recognized by climate change scientists that one of the most effective ways to limit the negative impacts of climate change on freshwater resources is through maintaining naturalized and well-vegetated shorelines with native plants that are resistant to the impacts of a changing climate.

Support for this work was provided by EcoAction – Environment and Climate Change Canada, Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation, Lush Cosmetics, NB Environmental Trust Fund and NB Wildlife Trust Fund.

For more details read the media coverage on this project: CBC News Story, CTV News Story

Click below for the video clip on CBC New Brunswick News
August 15, 2019

Click to read the article from the Daily Gleaner

The final report for this project  will be available on our website soon. You can contact our office for a copy.