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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.

A Michigan educator from Alpena Public School shines as a Center for Great Lakes Literacy mentor, working alongside a former student. This former student is launching her own science teaching career and a new local watershed investigation with Alcona Community School students.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces availability of the publication "Strategies for Adapting Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change," a tool to bridge the gap between general climate science concepts and local conditions.

U.S. EPA has announced the public release of the Great Lakes Advisory Board’s Final Report. The Report addresses six important Great Lakes issues: (1) innovative strategies to address legacy phosphorus; (2) managing excess nutrients; (3) GLRI outreach; (4) invasive species; (5) outcome-based investments in the Great Lakes; and (6) GLRI’s role in the vitality and reinvestment of Great Lakes communities.

NOAA Fisheries is recommending more than $14 million in funding for eleven projects to continue restoration of important habitat for fisheries in the Great Lakes.

EPA GLNPO Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program cooperators at Cornell University reexamined zooplankton specimens identified as Cyclops strenuus from the St Marys River and from western Lake Erie. Their study reclassifies C. strenuus as two different non-native zooplankton species and resolves a long-standing debate regarding the identity of these rare Cyclops specimens in the Great Lakes.

Fifty years ago, the United States and Canada first signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a commitment to work together to restore and protect our shared and increasingly precious resource. Since 1972, the Agreement continues to be a catalyst for strong regional partnerships and innovative approaches to environmental actions.