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October 11, 2023 -
The Great Lakes National Program Office is pleased to announce that it received a total of 15 applications in response to the FY 2023 Request for Applications (RFA) to Create Great Lakes Environmental Justice Grant Programs. The RFA closed on September 15th, 2023, and the submitted applications are now under review.
- October 3, 2023 -
The Great Lakes Commission announced that it will award more than $1.5 million in grants to reduce the runoff of sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants into the Great Lakes and their tributaries through the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program.
- USDA Wildlife Services and partners work to protect state endangered terns in the Great Lakes regionSeptember 28, 2023 -
USDA Wildlife Services collaborates with natural resources managers to address predation on Ohio’s breeding colonies of common terns, fortifying the future for populations of this state endangered species.
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September 21, 2023 -
Dredging at the Munger Landing in Duluth, MN is complete, and restoration is underway. The project is part of the St. Louis River Area of Concern effort to remediate contaminated sediment and restore degraded habitat.
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September 20, 2023 -
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced $367,694 in funding for four projects in the inaugural indigenous communities priority under the Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program.
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September 19, 2023 -
EPA Great Lakes National Program Office scientists Megan O’Brien and Matt Pawlowski were interviewed by reporter Susan Bence for WUWM’s podcast “Lake Effect.” In the interview, O’Brien and Pawlowski give Bence a tour of EPA’s Research Vessel Lake Guardian, explain how various sampling equipment is deployed, and discuss the different types of data collected while the GLNPO Summer Water Quality Survey is underway.
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September 14, 2023 -
After extensive sediment remediation work, which reduced sediment toxicity to levels that are no longer harmful to bottom-dwelling invertebrates in the river, the Degradation of Benthos BUI has been removed at the Buffalo River AOC.
- September 8, 2023 -
A father-and-son farming team in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin are demonstrating what conservation practices and welcoming vital pollinators can do for soil health and crop yields.
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September 6, 2023 -
Through extensive habitat restoration work, modified dredging practices, and implementation of long-term plans to improve wastewater and stormwater management, habitat connectivity and water quality in the Buffalo River Area of Concern AOC have sufficiently improved to remove the Loss of Fish and Wildlife Habitat Beneficial Use Impairment.
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September 5, 2023 -
Grant applications requested by October 23 for Cooperative Weed Management Areas and Forest Restoration. Informational webinars will be held September 5.
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