IISD Experimental Lakes Area Facility Day Tours We are happy to organize private tours Access to the road is restricted for schools and independently coordinated by the Ontario Ministry for groups of 10 persons or larger. Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF), and requires a permit. Please coordinate with your Touring IISD-ELA tour organizer to ensure that all Our standard day tour of the IISD-ELA facility vehicles have an OMNRF permit. begins at 10:00 a.m. and may include: The IISD-ELA site is located at • A welcome presentation that gives an the end of the gravel road, 30 overview of the history of IISD-ELA and our km from the highway. Continue Our road is signed, science. straight on the main road until careful not to miss it. • A tour of our facilities and closest research you arrive. lakes including: discussions of water flow, Arrival water quality and fish sampling; tours of the chemistry and fish labs; a tour of the We ask that you arrive no later than 10:00 am for Environment Canada metrological station; a day tours. Please respect speed limits on our road hands-on netting activity to collect small fish and drive slowly past the meteorological site. We or zooplankton. would rather you be late than drive too quickly. We will meet you in the parking lot upon your arrival. • Lunch at the beach in our camp recreational area. Please pack your own lunch. We ask that Tours are free of charge, you help us to reduce waste by packing your however, as a registered lunch as waste-free as possible. charity we welcome • A visit to the ongoing whole-ecosystem donations to IISD-ELA. experiment in which scientists have reduced Donations can be made water flowing into a lake to mimic drier online at iisd.org/ela/donate conditions expected in the Canadian Boreal or by cheque made out to Shield due to climate change. IISD Experimental Lakes • Tours typically conclude between 2:00 and Area Inc. Donations support 3:00 pm. research and education at IISD-ELA, contributing If you have any specific topics you would like to the production of data discussed, or areas/demonstrations you wish to used globally to inform see, please request through your tour organizer in The meteorological site is sustainable use of the advance. We will do our best to accommodate all also signed. world’s freshwater resources. tour requests. Getting Here The IISD-ELA facility is located four hours east of Tours can be booked through our Winnipeg off of Highway 17. The turn off of Hwy 17 Education Assistant at [email protected] is on the right side when travelling from Kenora, approximately 2 km past Gordon Lake. If travelling Be sure to check out our website at iisd.org/ela from Dryden, the turn off is on the left side of the @IISD_ELA ExperimentalLakes highway, just past the Stewart Lake Lodge..