North Shore Resilience Action Plan

Port Glasgow to Long Point

The Long Point Biosphere Region was selected for funding by the Canada Water Agency to develop a Resilience Action Plan for the north shore of Lake Erie, from Port Glasgow to Long Point. To learn more about the project objectives and schedule, please visit the About page. The Governance page explains how the project is being managed.

The first three years of the project, from September 2024 to March 2027, will focus on three key activities:

  1. Engagement with stakeholders and landowners in the study area.
  2. Development of a North Shore Resilience Action Plan, informed by technical studies and community feedback, to restore natural shoreline processes and increase resilience to coastal hazards.
  3. Complete beach and dune restoration projects in the study area with nature-based solutions.

The Working Group will continue to explore other funding opportunities to advance the Action Plan beyond year three.

Bluffs West of Port Stanley RE

PROJECT UPDATES

Beachgrass Propagation with Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
January 10, 2026 Partners from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN), Zuzek Inc. and the Long Point Biosphere Region (LPBR) gathered to assemble beachgrass micronurseries. Native beachgrass is ...
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Wawanesa Climate Champions Grant Awarded
December 10, 2025 The Long Point Biosphere Region was awarded the Wawanesa Climate Change Champions grant which will fund on-going efforts to increase the resilience of the North Shore Resilience ...
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Pines Parkway Beach Access Improvement, Long Point
December 9, 2025 Fencing was installed at the Pines Parkway municipal access path in Long Point.  This path was previously planted with native grasses and trees, with support from surrounding ...
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Port Burwell Dune Restoration
November 5, 2025 Community volunteers gathered to plant native grasses (beachgrass, Switchgrass, Little Blue Stem) and trees (Cottonwoods, Eastern Red Cedar) on the Port Burwell municipal beach.  The North Shore ...
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Port Bruce Beachgrass Planting
October 27, 2025 Port Bruce community volunteers gathered to plant Switchgrass, Little Blue Stem and Cottonwoods at the Port Bruce municipal beach.  This beach is already well vegetated and healthy, ...
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Dune Restoration at Long Point
October 17, 2025 Community volunteers and staff from the Long Point Biosphere Region and Zuzek Inc. planted native vegetation including Beachgrass, Little Blue Stem, Switchgrass and Cottonwood trees to encourage ...
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Beachgrass and Seed Collection
October 16, 2025 Beachgrass plants and seeds were collected from a healthy, dense population of grass located in the Long Point National Wildlife Area. Beachgrass native to the Great Lakes ...
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Technical Advisory Committee Field Tour and Meeting
October 1-2, 2025 The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) met for two days to tour the project area and review the data collection, methodology and preliminary analysis conducted over the summer ...
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Summer Data Collection and Field Work
Summer 2025 Throughout the summer and early autumn of 2025, field work was conducted to collect the data necessary to: better understand the changes occurring in the bluffs and nearshore, ...
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Long Point Biosphere Wine and Cheese and Learn
On July 10, 2025, the Long Point Biosphere Area hosted a Wine and Cheese and Learn session at Birds Canada's facility in Port Rowan. Pete Zuzek, a professional geoscientist, provided ...
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Austin Parkway Beach Access Signage
On July 2, 2025 informational signage was installed along the Austin Parkway Beach Access. This project is restoring protective sand dunes along the municipal access path, with the goal of ...
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Public Advisory Committee Tour
On May 24th, 2025, the Public Advisory Committee (PAC) participated in a Coastal Tour of the littoral cell from Port Glasgow to Long Point. We began in the west and ...
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Foredune Restorations
May 16, 2025 The North Shore Resilience team has been busy restoring foredunes on private property at Long Point and the municipal walkway at 53 Beach Avenue from May 8 ...
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Beach Access Improvements Underway
May 1, 2025 Dear Long Point Community Members, You may have noticed some changes to municipal walkway 53 on Beach Avenue at Long Point. This Beach Access Improvement Pilot Project ...
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PROJECT AREA

The project area extends from Port Glasgow to Long Point, along the north shore of Lake Erie. This area is known as a littoral cell or sediment cell, which is a coastal segment that defines the supply, longshore transport, and deposition of sand and pebbles. Within a littoral cell, there are erosional areas (e.g., bluffs), a net direction of longshore sediment transport, and a downdrift area where sediment accumulates (e.g., beaches). Refer to the adjacent map of the project area and littoral cell boundaries.

Figure - Central Lake Erie Reg Units with Long Point West Littoral Cell (Crop)