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Southeast Environmental Association SEA is a registered charity with a goal to improve PEI's environment and contribute to the community.

Watershed Wednesday 💦Our watersheds connect land, water, wildlife, and people. Each week we’ll share a simple fact or st...
10/14/2026

Watershed Wednesday 💦

Our watersheds connect land, water, wildlife, and people. Each week we’ll share a simple fact or stewardship tip to help protect the waterways we all depend on.

Today’s Topic: What Happens When We Remove Trees and Vegetation? 🌿

Trees, shrubs, grasses, and other vegetation play an important role in keeping our watersheds healthy. But what happens when they’re removed?

🌱 Increased Erosion: Plant roots help hold soil in place. Without them, soil can wash away more easily, especially during heavy rainfall.

💧 Poorer Water Quality: Without vegetation to slow and filter runoff, more sediment, nutrients, and pollutants can enter nearby streams and rivers.

🌊 Increased Runoff and Flooding: Vegetation helps absorb rainfall and slow the movement of water across the land. Removing it can lead to faster runoff and a greater risk of flooding.

🐟 Loss of Aquatic Habitat: Trees along streambanks provide shade that helps keep water cool. Without this shade, water temperatures can rise, affecting fish and other aquatic organisms.

🦋 Reduced Biodiversity: Vegetation provides food, shelter, and habitat for countless species. Removing it can disrupt ecosystems both on land and in the water.

The good news? Protecting existing vegetation and restoring native plants along streambanks can help reduce erosion, improve water quality, support wildlife, and keep our watersheds healthy. 🌳

Every tree, shrub, and patch of vegetation plays a part in protecting our water. 💚

Healthy vegetation = Healthy watersheds!

SEA works to protect and restore watersheds across southeastern Prince Edward Island so our ecosystems, wildlife, and communities can thrive.

Watershed Wednesday 💦Every week we share a quick fact about watersheds and why they matter. Healthy streams, wetlands, a...
10/07/2026

Watershed Wednesday 💦

Every week we share a quick fact about watersheds and why they matter. Healthy streams, wetlands, and rivers help support wildlife, clean water, and strong communities.

Today’s Topic: Keeping Tabs on Our Streams using CABIN! 💧

CABIN is a national monitoring program that provides a standardized way to collect and assess information about aquatic ecosystems. Using a consistent approach called the Reference Condition Approach (RCA), we can compare stream communities and identify changes in their ecological condition.

It’s not just about water chemistry! 🔬

Along with traditional measurements of the chemical and physical characteristics of a stream, CABIN monitoring also looks at benthic macroinvertebrates — small organisms that live on or near the bottom of streams, such as insect larvae and other aquatic invertebrates.

These little creatures can tell us a lot about what’s happening in a stream. Their presence, absence, and diversity can help us detect changes in water quality, habitat conditions, and even the presence of invasive species.

Why is this monitoring important?

Regular monitoring helps us:
🌱 Detect changes in aquatic ecosystems
🔎 Identify potential environmental impacts
📊 Track changes over time
💧 Better understand the health of our waterways
🛠️ Support informed conservation and restoration efforts

By combining physical, chemical, and biological information, we can get a more complete picture of stream health and better understand what our waterways need.

Healthy streams support healthy watersheds — and monitoring helps us understand, protect, and restore them. 💙

SEA works to protect and restore watersheds across southeastern Prince Edward Island so our ecosystems, wildlife, and communities can thrive. 🐟

WILD FACT MONDAY! 🌿Today's fact is: Not all red foxes are red! 🦊While the familiar reddish-orange coat is what most of ...
10/05/2026

WILD FACT MONDAY! 🌿

Today's fact is: Not all red foxes are red! 🦊

While the familiar reddish-orange coat is what most of us picture when we think of a red fox, Vulpes vulpes can actually come in a variety of natural colour patterns.

Some red foxes have coats that are much darker—ranging from brown and grey to almost black. These colour variations are known as colour morphs and are caused by differences in the genes that control pigmentation. 🧬

One particularly striking example is the silver fox, which has a predominantly dark coat with silvery-tipped hairs that can give it a frosted appearance. Another is the cross fox, which has a darker, greyish-brown coat with a distinctive dark stripe running along its back and across its shoulders.

So, if you happen to spot a fox that looks a little different from the classic orange-and-white version, you may have encountered one of nature's fascinating colour variations!

Nature is full of surprises. 👀

🌿It’s National Seniors Day! 💚Today, Southeast Environmental Association is celebrating seniors who bring knowledge, stor...
10/01/2026

🌿It’s National Seniors Day! 💚

Today, Southeast Environmental Association is celebrating seniors who bring knowledge, stories, experience, and connection to our communities.

Through a new 5-year initiative, Connecting Seniors to Nature Through Technology and Teaching (CSNTT) project, we are creating opportunities for seniors across Prince Edward Island to connect with nature, learn new skills, build relationships, and stay engaged in their communities.

From nature walks and gardening to wildlife monitoring, workshops, digital learning, and intergenerational activities, CSNTT is all about creating meaningful opportunities to connect, learn, explore, and share.

Today, we recognize and appreciate the many ways seniors contribute to our communities—and the valuable knowledge they pass on to future generations. 🤝

Happy National Seniors Day from all of us at SEA! 💚

Wild Fact Monday!Meet one of PEI’s helpful backyard residents — the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)! 🐸Here’s a fun f...
09/28/2026

Wild Fact Monday!

Meet one of PEI’s helpful backyard residents — the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)! 🐸

Here’s a fun fact: it’s the only species of toad naturally found on Prince Edward Island. 🌿

These little amphibians can turn up in all kinds of places, from forests and wetlands to gardens and backyards. And they’re doing more than just hanging around — American Toads help control populations of insects, slugs, and other small pests. 🐜

👀 Toad spotting tips: 👂
• Look for the ones with dry, bumpy skin
• Watch for brown, reddish, or gray colouring with darker spots
• Listen for their distinctive long, trilling call in spring

So the next time you spot a toad hopping through your yard, give it a little space and appreciate the important job it’s doing! 💚

Throwback Thursday ⏳SEA has been part of many meaningful projects, partnerships, and milestones across Eastern PEI. Each...
09/24/2026

Throwback Thursday ⏳

SEA has been part of many meaningful projects, partnerships, and milestones across Eastern PEI. Each week we’ll look back at moments that helped shape our communities and protect the environment we all share.

Today’s Throwback is: Boughton Island Shoreline Clean-up

In August of 2023, our field team joined the PEI Government crew and PEI Watershed Alliance for a clean-up on Boughton Island’s shoreline. Together, they cleared 280 kg (617 lbs) of debris from a 2 km stretch of shoreline! 💪

A big thank you to everyone who helped out—and to the PEI Aquaculture Alliance for supporting this clean-up! 💙

Looking back shows the power of collaboration and the impact of environmental stewardship in our communities.

Watershed Wednesday 💧Every week we share a quick tip or fact about watersheds and why they matter. Healthy streams, wetl...
09/23/2026

Watershed Wednesday 💧

Every week we share a quick tip or fact about watersheds and why they matter. Healthy streams, wetlands, and rivers help support wildlife, clean water, and strong communities.

Today’s Topic: Wetlands - Nature’s Sponges, Filters & Wildlife Hotspots! 🧽

Wetlands play a huge role in our watersheds! They store excess water, reduce flooding, trap sediment, filter pollutants, and provide important habitat for wildlife. 💦

And not all wetlands look the same! Common types include:

Marshes – dominated by grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. They provide habitat for ducks, great blue herons, frogs, dragonflies, and mosquitoes. 🌾 🐸

Swamps – dominated by trees and shrubs can provide food, shelter, and water for beavers, muskrats, frogs, shrews, birds, and many insects. 🌲 🦦

Fens – fed by groundwater and rainfall and often rich in nutrients, can support frogs, ducks, dragonflies, shrews, and many wetland plants and insects too. 🌧️ 🦆

Bogs – mainly fed by rainfall and typically acidic, with peat-building plants, can also provide habitat for frogs, dragonflies, mosquitoes, shrews, as well as a variety of birds and insects. 🌱 🦟

Wetland edges and surrounding habitats can also provide important shelter and feeding areas for species such as lizards and other small animals. 🦎

Many species use more than one type of wetland throughout their lives, making these connected ecosystems especially important. 💚

SEA works to protect and restore watersheds across southeastern Prince Edward Island so our ecosystems, wildlife, and communities can thrive. Join us each Wednesday to learn more about our watersheds.

Tip Tuesday 💡Each week, we’ll share practical tips to protect the environment as well as tips to help you connect with n...
09/22/2026

Tip Tuesday 💡

Each week, we’ll share practical tips to protect the environment as well as tips to help you connect with nature and enjoy the outdoors.

Today’s Tip: Grab a jacket and head outdoors! 🍂

Getting outside and enjoying nature is a great way to make the most of a crisp fall day. 🌞

Autumn is a beautiful time to slow down and spend some time outdoors. Cooler temperatures, fewer bugs, colourful landscapes and changing wildlife activity make fall a great season to explore nature. 🍁

Keep an eye out for migrating birds, mushrooms, seeds, berries and other signs of seasonal change. You never know what you might discover! 🍄

So grab a jacket, find a trail, visit a local stream or simply step into your backyard—and enjoy all that fall has to offer. 🍂

What’s your favourite thing to see or do in nature during the fall?

Wild Fact Monday! 🌿Every Monday we highlight a fun or surprising fact about the natural world around us here on PEI. Our...
09/21/2026

Wild Fact Monday! 🌿

Every Monday we highlight a fun or surprising fact about the natural world around us here on PEI. Our island is full of incredible wildlife and ecosystems worth celebrating.

Today’s fact is: The Cecropia moth caterpillar (Hyalophora cecropia) is one of the largest and most colourful caterpillars found right here on PEI! 🐛

Have you ever spotted one of these colourful giants?

They have several distinctive features:

- Bright green body
- Large, colourful blue, yellow, orange, and red bumps (tubercles) along the body
- A chunky, almost “spiky” appearance
- They become very large before pupating — often around 10 cm (4 inches) long.

Those bright blue, yellow, orange, and red bumps may look like spines, but they’re actually harmless tubercles. While in their cocoon they transform into one of North America’s largest native moths! 💚

Keep an eye out for them on trees such as birch, cherry, willow, and poplar. 🌳👀
Nature is full of surprises—sometimes they’re hiding in plain sight!

Throwback Thursday ⏳SEA’s story is built on collaboration and community involvement that reflects a shared commitment to...
09/17/2026

Throwback Thursday ⏳

SEA’s story is built on collaboration and community involvement that reflects a shared commitment to the environment. Each week we’ll highlight the projects and partnerships that make a difference.

Today’s Throwback is: a fish rescue along the Confederation Trail in 2022! 🐟

Late-summer low water levels can sometimes leave trout stranded in isolated pools. Our team, along with PEIFFW’s Rosie and Matt, spent a couple of hours relocating more than 20 trout to safer water. 💦

As these pools warm up, the amount of oxygen available in the water decreases, making it harder for fish to survive. The trout had a better chance once they were relocated.🐟💚

And while the trout were getting a helping hand, lots of Green Frogs nearby were perfectly happy to stay put. Happy little frogs enjoying the warmer water of these pools 🐸

One little pool, lots of wildlife, and a good reminder of how important healthy, connected waterways are. 💧

Looking back shows the power of collaboration and the impact of environmental stewardship in our communities.

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41 Wood Island Hill/PO Box 1500
Montague, PE
C0A1R0

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Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

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