Spring is just around the corner, but efforts already are underway to make Bruce County greener.
The Bruce County Stewardship Network has kicked off its annual Evergreens for Streams Campaign to raise money to plant evergreens to help rehabilitate watercourses in rural lands and improve forest management.
Stewardship Co-ordinator Craig Todd says for every fifteen dollars donated, ten evergreen seedlings will be planted along a Bruce County stream that has been deforested by farming.
He says the planting of the trees will provide shade that will cool the water creating a better habitat for fish and also prevent silt and other run off from entering the stream.
Todd says that most of the planting is done on private land with the co operation of the landowner who wants to see a stream on his property better protected.
He says while the landowner gets free trees, it is up to him to manage and take care of them as they mature.
Community Foundation Grey Bruce official Roberta Brignall says the Evergreens for Streams fund is managed under their umbrella and donations must be made out to the Foundation.
She says this is one way the Foundation is getting environmental programs out into the public view.