Welcome to the Waterloo Stewardship Network Home Page. Based in the southern part of the province, Ontario Stewardship, answers the question, "What positive role can agencies play in influencing the land management practices of private landowners?" In today's era of financial constraints, partnerships and self-regulation, Ontario Stewardship seeks to link landowners with funding, information and expertise to ensure that good management practices flourish. The Program's strength lies in its 40 Community Stewardship Councils, volunteer groups of representative landowners and land interest groups who determine what are the environmental priorities for a given area (usually a county) in Ontario. CLICK HERE to visit the Ontario Stewardship Home Page. Each Community Stewardship Council has, dedicated to it, an Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources staff person known as a Stewardship Coordinator, an individual who through work experience, training and aptitude acts as an Executive Director and facilitator to the Council and hence the community. All Community Stewardship Councils have project and operational funding which act as the catalyst to ensure that good ideas can be translated into great projects . . . . Examples of these projects include: landowner workshops on woodlot and wetland management, pamphlets an extension notes, stream restoration projects, endangered species conservation, environmental school programs, demonstration projects, community tree plants, etc | 
