All local conservation authorities are facing significant funding cuts from the province.
Brian Horner, the general manager of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority, said the first major cut was the 55 per cent reduction in funding for flood management.
But Brian Horner said the 50 Million Trees program will also be cut for 2020, as well as the Summer Experience program for the coming year, and the $120,000 that they received annually for Healthy Lake Huron projects.
"Unfortunately if we can't find other funding, there will have to be some services that are certainly reduced or cut," he said. "For example, the Summer Experience program this year, we know definitely that we weren't getting the funding, so we didn't hire any summer staff."
Horner added they have some current staff that went through the Summer Experience program in the past, but this year, students won't get that opportunity.
