Our Partners

Intervale consulted to the Endangered Species Recovery Fund, a funding program managed by World Wildlife Fund and Environment Canada for projects aimed at the recovery of species at risk.  Intervale developed guidelines for applicants seeking grants from the ESRF for education and outreach projects and provided review criteria to the Scenitific Advisory Committee of the ESRF.

Tuckamore Lodge is a first-rate accommodation and outfitting service for visitors to the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. Guests from Premiers to sportsmen and women have chosen the lodge as their home base for exploring everything from the wilderness to the historic sites of the region. Intervale is providing technical expertise in packaged programs and other services to this friendly, locally-owned and managed lodge (see www.tuckamorelodge.com). 

Intervale is working with The EJLB Foundation and partners in Canada to demonstrate natural, cost-effective solutions to the urgent need for wastewater treatment in small communities. In conjunction with the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Town of Forteau, Intervale in 2005 installed the first peatbale wastewater treatment systems, which use sphagnum peat moss to treat harmful bacteria and purify the wastewater. With Environment Canada and other partners, Intervale is influencing policy-makers to adopt integrated wastewater management procedures. 

Intervale Associates worked in collaboration with Kalahari Management on a number of sustainable tourism projects including the Gros Morne Institute’s Greening Your Business Program and the Canadian Badlands SAMDA Regional Tourism Plan. In addition, both Intervale and Kalahari Management have participated in the European Nature-based Tourism Program offering training opportunities at their transnational workshops (see www.kalahari-online.com) 

In 2005, Intervale staff worked in partnership with Gros Morne Cooperating Association, Parks Canada, and Gros Morne communities to complete an integrated solid waste management strategy for the region. The strategy aims to significantly reduce waste transferred to landfills through waste minimization (education and incentive mechanisms) and waste reduction and diversion (disposal bans, household hazardous waste separation, increased recycling and composting) (see www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/visit/visit3a_e.asp and www.grosmornetravel.com).

Intervale consulted to Tourism Atlantic’s, Great Atlantic Outdoors Adventure Partnership, a marketing partnership of outfitters in eastern Canada diversifying into the adventure tourism industry (see www.atlanticoutdoors.ca).

Intervale conducted the first audit of municipal wetlands stewardship in Newfoundland and Labrador, a long-term program of the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture, which is a U.S. and Canada joint initiative under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP). NAWMP is an agreement among federal and state/provincial governments in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to restore and manage waterfowl populations and their habitats.

The Cruise Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (CANAL) is mandated to facilitate the successful development of the province’s cruise product. In the spring of 2005, Intervale was hired to administer CANAL’s Port Readiness Program. The program has four main phases including: a needs assessment of the cruise industry, a training manual for ports on how to host a cruise ship, a series of workshops at thirty key ports, and a marketing program to strengthen links with the transatlantic market (see www.cruisenewfoundlandlabrador.com and www.cruisetosuccess.blogspot.com).

Intervale staff member Kathleen Blanchard implemented stewardship programs in Newfoundland and Labrador for Canada’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife habitat. WHC is also a partner in developing wastewater solutions and the protection of critical habitat in Newfoundland and Labrador.
For more information (see www.whc.org). 

Intervale consulted to the VTTA to administer the European-based Destination Viking Sagalands Program in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Through this program, Intervale has helped to coordinate a Viking Market and Fair on the St. John’s waterfront, a Norse seminar at L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada with participants from eight northern European countries, and a marketing program in collaboration with Applecore Interactive and European partners to help promote Norse sites in the North Atlantic. The Destination Viking Sagalands Program was administered in partnership with the Historic Sites Association, Parks Canada, and the Port of St. John’s in Canada as well as the European Union’s Office of North Atlantic Agreement and Interreg IIIB Northern Periphery Program 
(see www.vikingtrail.org). 

Gros Morne National Park, one of only two national parks in Newfoundland and Labrador, draws more than 100,000 annually to enjoy its outstanding geologic features of rugged mountains, ancient bedrock, and fjords. Yet national parks can be more than places to enjoy nature-they can be demonstration sites for how human beings can interact wisely with the land. Intervale introduced Parks Canada to the peat filter wastewater treatment system designed by engineer Dennis Martin. A large peat filter wastewater system was built at Western Brook Pond, in Gros Morne National Park. Intervale is also partnering with Parks Canada and local communities in the development of an environmentally friendly solid waste management strategy for the region.
(see www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nl/grosmorne/index_e.asp). (see www.vikingtrail.org). 

In collaboration with the National Recovery Team for Wolffish and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Intervale developed a stewardship and education program for fish harvesters in eastern Canada. The goal is to reduce mortality due to bycatch for three species of wolffish that are now protected under the new federal Species at Risk Act. Northem and spotted are listed as Threatened, while Atlantic or striped wolffish are listed as Special Concern. 

based at the National Water Research Institute
Under the Science Horizons Program for Youth Internships, Intervale is providing career training and job experience in wastewater technology to a qualified Canadian, while the National Water Research Institute is providing science mentoring in water quality monitoring.

Intervale developed a strategy for how to engage local communities along the Quebec North Shore in migratory bird conservation, with emphasis on seabirds and waterfowl, the nine federal migratory bird sanctuaries, and the involvement of aboriinal communities. Intervale presented the strategy in powerpoint form to the management staff of Environment Canada, Quebec Region, and to the staff of Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec Region. 

A highly readable planning manual developed by the Association of Heritage Industries is getting excellent reviews by practitioners within institutions, municipalities, and community-based organizations who seek to develop natural and cultural heritage projects in their own settings. Intervale conducted research and wrote portions of the text for this manual that draws heavily from case studies in Newfoundland and Labrador and that has application to rural areas in North America and abroad (see www.ahinl.org).