Restoring a balance
How to help amphibians
Keeping Score: Amphibian Road Call Counts & Backyard Frog Surveys
Speak Out
Community Green Plans
Wetland Restoration
Ecological planning beyond the birdbath
Before you start
Urban Wetlands
Marshes
Drainage ditches
Stormwater retention ponds
Ephemeral ponds
River valleys
Swamps
Wet meadows
Beaver pond Management
Frog Friendly Backyard
Where to build your pond
Toad ponds
Woodland ponds
Farm ponds
How big and how deep
Shape
Concrete, fiberglass or clay ponds?
Flexible pond liners
Digging your pond
Overflow
Water source
Maintenance
The Mitchell Pond
How to attract amphibians to your pond
Norway Maple: Reassessing the threat to natural areas
Other amphibian shelters
How to attract other wildlife to your backyard
Metro Toronto Zoo bat box programme
Snakes in your garden
HELP! - Problems and concerns brought to our attention
through letters from homeowners.
Wetland tales and activities
Literature
Narcissus Toad by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The song of Mr. Toad by Kenneth Grahame.
Birdfoot's Grampa by Joseph Bruchac
The woman who married a frog by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
Word Games
Wetland Word Find
Amphibians of Ontario Word Find
Art Activities
Colour a Toad
Science Activities
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Phytoplankton!
Ghostbusters - Zooplankton at Work.
It's a buggy world after all.
Additional Activities
The Gallery I
The Gallery II
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Fiddlehead
Joe-pye-weed
Sagittaria
Staghorn Sumach
Wildflowers
Marsh marigold
Pickerel weed
Cardinal flower
White water lily
Black-eyed susan
Columbine
Glossary
Appendix
Native Ontario plant species for wetlands and adjacent habitats
Nurseries which carry native plant species for Ontario.
Additional sources of information on amphibians
