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They published a white paper Thursday urging continuation of the multi-million dollar Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and to put it on a five-year rather than annual renewal.
Clickable map details Great Lakes Restoration Initiative projects.
A senior adviser to the EPA administrator describes the impact of federal funding to restore the Great Lakes.
Think all ice is the same?
That’s not the case on the Great Lakes.
And now scientists have found out how to detect the differences.
With math.
You can now track progress on restoring the Great Lakes at a new database provided by the Great Lakes Commission. It focuses on conservation plans implemented by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative over the past three years, and includes several projects in each of the eight Great Lakes states. The initiative, which is managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, has received more than $220 million since 2010 for wildlife restoration. It has led to hundreds of different environmental endeavors ranging from turtle protection research in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to a dam removal in eastern New York. The database contains fact sheets on all work from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The idea is to find the best places to get the most value from investing in environmental restoration.
The project examines the intersection of multiple problems with their impact on the services provided by the environment.
One finding: The places most valued by people are the most at risk.
Meet comedian Marty Milfoil, one of the stars of a campaign to teach waterfowl hunters how they can help limit the spread of invasive species.
The Wildlife Forever campaign includes billboards and public service announcements.
President Obama’s effort to jumpstart long-overdue cleanup projects could be in trouble. Insiders wonder if the new Congress will set the budgetary needle closer to zero. But it will take more than money for the lakes to reach their potential.
Time Magazine just released a list of the world’s most influential individuals of 2010.
They include pioneers, pop stars and politicians.
Is the Great Lakes region adequately represented? Who did Time miss?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday released its final version of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan. The plan spells out the agency’s goals and benchmarks for fixing up the world’s largest freshwater system through 2014. The document updates a draft of the plan that was released in December and was open to public comment until Jan. 8. The EPA pulled the old version from its Web site, but since I had a copy sitting on my hard drive, I though I’d take a look at what’s changed.