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After decades of declines, local fauna in the St. Louis River Area of Concern have sufficiently recovered to prompt the removal of the Degradation of Fish and Wildlife Populations Beneficial Use Impairment. This achievement comes in response to extensive habitat restoration work by local, state, tribal, and federal partners.

The NOAA Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training for Indigenous Communities Federal Funding Opportunity is now open. This competitive grant program supports environmental and place-based educational programs in the Great Lakes watershed. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2023.

Brothers Mark and Joe Van Asten pay it forward with the knowledge and conservation practices gathered from a long-time partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

A Gary, Indiana green infrastructure project reduces city hall parking lot stormwater runoff to Lake Michigan by over 80 percent.

Students from two schools, located on the east and west sides of the Maumee River, analyzed litter along the river before and after the annual walleye run. The investigation spurred students to think about the human impact on local watersheds.

New York landowners plant over 50 acres of eroding cropland to permanent grass, leading to visible and measurable improvements in soil and water quality in the Keshequa Creek watershed.

A recent field day at a farm in the Upper Fox-Wolf Demonstration Farm Network demonstrates the effectiveness of conservation practices like cover crops, no-till, and prescribed grazing.

U.S. EPA and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency substantially complete remediation of 55,000 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with legacy pollutants at Scanlon Reservoir in the St. Louis River Area of Concern.

Culvert replacements by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians restore fish passage and increase fish spawning habitat on Tannery Creek.

A recent Great Lakes Commission video highlights its work to restore a former confined disposal site in the Maumee River Area of Concern in Ohio.