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The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority (LRCA) is a community-based environmental non-profit agency that provides for the organization and delivery of programs and services that further the conservation, restoration, development and management of natural resources in the Lakehead Watershed. The LRCA was established in 1954 (initially the Neebing Valley Conservation Authority) by the Province of Ontario at the request of municipalities in the Lakehead watershed.

As legislated, the LRCA provides mandatory programs that manage the risk of natural hazards, manage lands owned by the Authority, protect sources of drinking water and monitors groundwater and surface water.  The Authority also provides non-mandatory programs including programs at the request of a municipality (GIS mapping service, water sampling) and programs that the LRCA considers to be beneficial to the watershed such as, stewardship on public and private lands and environmental education programming.  

The Authority is responsible for the administration of Ontario Regulation 41/24 which regulates development in areas where the control of flooding, erosion, dynamic beaches, unstable soil and bedrock may be affected by development.