Community Stewardship Program 'Adopt' a restoration site in the Don Participants in this program work in teams to care for a restoration site in the Don River Watershed. The need for the Stewardship Program has become increasingly necessary over the years as the number of Bring Back the Don projects have expanded. Established projects need more attention. Competition with exotics, pollution in the soils and river, soil compaction and dry conditions make it difficult for native plants to establish themselves without assistance. Community Monitoring Program Get down to the 'nitty-gritty' of the Don Participants in this program work in teams to monitor vegetation or benthic invertebrates at a restoration site in the Don River Watershed.
Vegetation is monitored to quantify spatial dominance of main native and non-native plant species.
Benthic invertebrates, bottom dwelling organisms that live in the muck of wetlands, rivers, and lakes, are monitored because they provide important information on water quality.