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The Sustain Our Great Lakes partnership announced $14.8 million in competitive grant funding for 48 projects that will restore key habitats for wildlife, improve water quality and enhance urban greenspace throughout the Great Lakes basin.

After extensive remediation work and monitoring led by the Buffalo River Restoration Partnership, levels of harmful industrial contaminants historically present in sediments within the Buffalo River AOC have been sufficiently reduced to remove the Restrictions on Dredging Activities BUI. This is the third BUI to be removed from the Buffalo River AOC.

Local, state, and regional guests toured Van Fleet Ditch in Lucas County, Ohio, the site of the county’s latest two-stage ditch restoration project.

What's up with the fish in the library and the wild rice in the classroom? Through a Center for Great Lakes Literacy program, one Wisconsin mentor worked with her mentees to provide opportunities for their students to help raise brown trout and wild rice to increase their interest in the Great Lakes.

Evidence of healthy mink reproduction and reduced contaminants in the AOC as a result of sediment remediation work has led to the removal of the Bird or Animal Deformities or Reproduction Problems Beneficial Use Impairment. One BUI remains in the Rochester Embayment AOC.

Grant applications requested by November 14 for Forest Restoration and for Cooperative Weed Management Areas. Informational webinars will be held September 22 and September 27, respectively.

Demonstration Farm Networks demonstrate the best, leading-edge conservation practices to reduce phosphorus and sediment from entering the Great Lakes.

With the help of the Natural Resources Conservation Service through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Hunter Strebig made his dreams of turning his grandfather's farm into a successful and sustainable beef cattle operation a reality, with water quality benefits from reduced erosion and nutrient losses.

This year marks the Bay Watershed Education and Training program’s 20-year anniversary. In the 20 years the program has been working around the country, B-WET has been a powerful catalyst for environmental literacy.

Improvements protect wetland by managing water flow, providing passive fish passage, and reducing threats of invasive species in Maumee Area of Concern.