Projects

Leafy Spurge Beetle Collection

Tackle Leafy Spurge with Beetles!

Yellow Fish Road

Did you know storm water goes to our rivers untreated? Unwanted household products discarded in storm drains flow directly through underground pipes into our river. As stewards for water protection, our goal is to educate the community on the best practices for maintaining clean water sources.

Invasive Species Key Tags

Tree For Life Program

The Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds is selling trees as a part of their Tree For Life Program. Buy a tree and help support healthy lakes, rivers, and wildlife habitat.

Another year at the Co-op Community Food Farm

The Co-op Community Food Farm has gone through it's first full growing season. Check out what has happened over the summer of 2022!

Co-op Community Food Farm Manuals

The MJRWS have written five garden manuals. They cover topics related to pollination, culture, harvesting, marketing, and irrigation.

Purple Loosestrife Pull- Year 3!

The MJRWs had another successful year pulling purple loosestrife from the banks of the Moose Jaw River.

Saskatchewan Tree For Life 2022

The Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds, the Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards, and the 8 other watersheds in the province are pleased to announce that the Tree For Life Program is back for 2022.

Leafy Spurge Beetle Collection

Every year the MJRWS collect Leafy Spurge Beetles to distribute them throughout the watershed to help control Leafy Spurge.

Co-op Community Food Farm and Pollinators Garden

The MJRWS received $45,000 from the Co-op community spaces for a new project! The Co-op Community food farm and pollinator garden at Prince Arthur School in Moose Jaw.

Purple Loosestrife Control- Year 2!

The MJRWS team and our volunteers help us tackle a large patch of purple loosestrife for the second year!

Aquatic Invasive Species Monitoring

Each summer, Watershed Stewardship Groups around Saskatchewan monitor numerous lakes for invasive Zebra and Quagga mussels. The MJRWS have monitored the Watson Reservoir for many years, but this year we are also monitoring Plaxton’s Lake in Moose Jaw.

Watershed Wonders

The MJRWS, South Saskatchewan River Watershed Stewards, Swift Current Creek Watershed Stewards, Wascana & Upper Qu’Appelle Watersheds Association Taking Responsibility, and Old Wives Watershed Association are working together to create a series of fun and educational watershed kits.

Tree For Life

The MJRWS is partnering with SAW to bring free trees to residents in our watershed.

2021 "Wetlands and Wildlife" Poster Contest

It is time for the annual poster contest. Enter for a chance to win a $500 grand prize! *Must be a resident of the Moose Jaw River Watershed*

Purple Loosestrife Control

We recently discovered a patch of purple loosestrife located in the City of Moose Jaw. Purple loosestrife is an incredibly invasive plant that loves water, and wetlands. Volunteers came out on August 5th to help manually pull the plants from the river bed.

RM of Baildon Agriculture Water Management

Located just south of Moose Jaw, we are working with a massive amount of land and over one hundred land owners, government agencies (both local, provincial, and federal) to address concerns with agricultural drainage, water quality, and flow controls in the project area.

Yellow Flag Iris Control

Thanks to the help of the Wakamow Valley Authority, Moose Jaw River and Adventure Tours, and our locals in our watershed. We were able to identify, map, monitor and then control the spread of a new (to Saskatchewan) invasive species, Yellow-Flag Iris.

Leafy Spurge Beetle Collection Day

The MJRWS partnered with three watersheds on July 9th, and together we were able to collect 55,000 beetles to be distributed throughout southern Saskatchewan as a biocontrol for the invasive plant, leafy spurge.