2006 Theme Grants
Midwest Environmental Advocates
Project Title: Sustaining Communities Campaign: Connecting Smart Growth and Clean Water in the Great Lakes Basin
Project Grant Award: $8000
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
Project Title: Minimizing Residential Construction Impacts on Lake Superior Shoreline: A Citizen's Stormwater Initiative
Project Grant Award: $8000
River Alliance of Wisconsin
Project Title: Building Wisconsin Watershed Organizations' Ability to Protect their Waters from Conservation Activities
Project Grant Award: $6000
Wisconsin Wetlands Association
Project Title: Wetlands and Stormwater Management: A Proactive Approach to Protecting Watershed Health
Project Grant Award: $8000
Spring 2006 GLAHNF Grant Recipients
Beaver Island Property Owners' Association
Project Title: "Beaver Island: A great Lakes Jewel' - a grassroots eduaction/advocacy project
Project Grant Award: $3000
Friends of Silver Lake
Project Title: Promises Kept - Watchdogging the construction of the Vale Park Link
Project Grant Award: $3100
Georgian Bay Association
Project Title: Wetland Monitoring and Preservation (Eastern Georgian Bay)
Project Grant Award: $2500
Lone Tree Council
Project Title: Protect and preserve wetlands/floodplain in Saginaw Bay Watershed
Project Grant Award: $3800
Maumee Bay Association
Project Title: There is little to no need for lawn treatment companies to put phosphorus on existing lawns.
Project Grant Award: $3000
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Project Title: MI Citizens for Water Conservation v. Nestle' and the MI Supreme Court
Project Grant Award: $3500
Niagara River Area Property Owners Group
Project Title: Protect Our Wetlands (Niagara River/Lake Erie/Fort Erie)
Project Grant Award: $3300
Quinte Watershed Cleanup Inc.
Project Title: Reduce the use of cosmetic pesticides in the Bay of Quinte Watershed
Project Grant Award: $3000
Residents for Responsible Government
Project Title: Protecting the Lake Ontario Watershed and the Health of the Community
Project Grant Award: $5000
Save Lake Superior Association
Project Title: Protecting Minnesota's Waters from Sulfide Mining
Project Grant Award: $3500
Save Lighthouse Point
Project Title: Legal Assistance-Building Save Lighthouse Point's Organization to Protect the Two Harbors Waterfront
Project Grant Award: $5500
Watershed Watchers/ Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Project Grant Award: $3000
2005 GLAHNF Special Opportunity Grant Recipients
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Stop the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Highway 164 four-lane expansion project
Project Grant Award: $500
Duck and Otter Creeks Partnership, Inc.
Project Title: Special Opportunity Grant to finance consultant for Duck and Otter Creeks Partnership strategic planning.
Project Grant Award: $300
Illinois Audubon Society
Project Title: Attendence to the US Fish & Wildlife Service's pre-season Piping Plover conference in Pellston, MI
Project Grant Award: $250
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council
Project Title: Newsletter and website evaluation grant award recipient
Project Grant Award: $250
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Inc.
Project Title: Hydrology Plan - Yellow Dog Plains
Project Grant Award: $500
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Project Title: Printing and mailing over 3,000 pieces of mail to residents in the city of Evart and 2 surrounding townships
Project Grant Award: $500
Ann Kierst
Project Title: Deny any movement of existing soils, new soils, any dredging, including the building of homes on this property (SOG05)
Project Grant Award: $500
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
Project Title: Defray the legal costs of working to save Lighthouse Point from development (SOG05)
Project Grant Award: $500
Fall 2005 GLAHNF Grant Recipients
Protect The Earth-Anishinaabe Niijii
Project Title: Protecting Our Wild Endangered Rice ("P.O.W.E.R".) Sharing Circles
Project Grant Award: $2,500
Citizens Concerned for Michipicoten Bay (CCMB)
Project Title: Utilizing the OMB process to protect coastal habitat on Lake Superior
Project Grant Award: $5,000
Friends of the Crooked River
Project Title: Green Energy? Brown Valley!! Save the Cuyahoga River from Hydro Proposal
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Mona Lake Watershed Council
Project Title: Water quality monitoring to justify a flow-through marsh project
Project Grant Award: $1,420
Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, Inc.
Project Title: Strategic Communications and Fundraising Capacity Building for Watershed Protection
Project Grant Award: $1,750
Friends of the Coves Subwatershed Inc.
Project Title: Community Aquatic Rehabilitation Project (CARP)
Project Grant Award: $2,000
Harbor Friends
Project Title: Develop grassroots community involvement in protecting the Grand Marais harbor
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Pesticide Free Ontario
Project Title: Lawn Care That Won't Cost the Earth
Project Grant Award: $2,800
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Grassroots initiative to stop an environmentally-destructive road expansion project in Wisconsin
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Citizens Against Toxic Substance (CATS)
Project Title: Citizens Against Toxic Substances
Project Grant Award: $5,000
Save Lighthouse Point
Project Title: Building Save Lighthouse Point's Organization to Protect Two Harbor's Waterfront
Project Grant Award: $4,000
Spring 2005 GLAHNF Grant Recipients
Antrim County United Through Ecology (ACUTE)
Project Title: Antrim Citizen Coalition Seeking Solutions to Trillions of Gallons of Groundwater Contamination by TCE
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Bad River Watershed Association
Project Title: Citizen Advocacy to Improve Town Road Work in Streams
Project Grant Award: $3000
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,000
Bob Cragin
Project Title: Protect the Viability of the Clough Island Complex
Project Grant Award: $2000
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $1,000
Friends of the Boyne River
Project Title: Save the Boyne River
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,800
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Disseminating Public Information About the Environmental Problems Along the Detroit River
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Gaia Defense League
Project Title: The Gaia Defense League On and In the Streams
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Kalamazoo River Protection Association
Project Title: Informing stakeholders along the Kalamazoo River of failures to remove 6 million cubic yards of contamination
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,000
Niagara River Area Property Owners
Project Title: Protect Our Wetlands (Niagara River/Fort Erie)
Project Grant Award: $2,000
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $3,500
Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition
Project Title: The Wave: Healthy Yards - Healthy Waters program to reduce phosphorus in runoff
Project Grant Award: $2,500
Residents for Responsible Government
Project Title: Lake Ontario watershed sampling and educational program
Project Grant Award: $2,800
Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,000
Tinkers Creek Land Conservancy
Project Title: A grassroots initiative to encourage and facilitate land conservation priorities in the watershed
Project Grant Award: $3,200
Wolfe Island Wildlife Association
Project Title: The Wolfe Island Wetland Corridor, Phase II - Mobilizing Community for Aquatic Habitat Protection
Project Grant Award: $500
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $1,800
2005 Theme Grants
Biodiversity Project
Project Title: Great Lakes Blog: Connecting Communities on the Web
Project Grant Award: $8000
Clean Water Fund
Project Title: Grassroots Media Training
Project Grant Award: $7100
Great Lakes State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)
Project Title: Stormwater as a resource in the Great Lakes: Grassroots Communications Tools
Project Grant Award: $8000
Native American Educational Technologies (NAET)
Project Title: Giving Voice to Gitchi Gumi (Lake Superior): Organizing our Indigenous Homelands
Project Grant Award: $7000
2004 Special Opportunity Grants
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Fees for Friends of the Detroit River Board Development Workshop
Project Grant Award: $500
Michigan United Conservation Clubs
Project Title: Efforts to greatly expand the grassroots network of citizens involved in the protection of aquatic habitats.
Project Grant Award: $500
Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers
Project Title: Assistance with funding to send Cheryl Nenn to a one-week training.
Project Grant Award: $500
Riversides Stewardship Alliance
Project Title: Purchasing equipment to continue the RiverSafe Carwash Campaign in order to achieve zero discharge of polluted runoff to storm sewers.
Project Grant Award: $426
Black Swamp Conservancy - Lake Erie Islands Chapter
Project Title: Purchasing a traveling exhibit to be used as part of a membership campaign and to promote conservation easement programs for Lake Erie water snake habitat.
Project Grant Award: $295
Climate Change Awareness Rally
Project Title: Facilities, phone and travel expenses for an event at the Michigan state capital on global warming and its impacts on our environment.
Project Grant Award: $250
Dunkirk High School Earth Science Club
Project Title: Planting beach grass plugs on Dunkirk's Point Gratiot to stop erosion.
Project Grant Award: $300
Erie County Environmental Coalition
Project Title: Purchasing a replacement computer for communicating with members.
Project Grant Award: $350
Greg Reisig
Project Title: Publicity and expenses for promoting the Rock the Wetlands event.
Project Grant Award: $500
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Professional consulting services performed by Cedarburg Science, LLC.
Project Grant Award: $500
Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Airfare and part of registration costs for the annual conference of the Waterkeeper Alliance in San Diego, CA.
Project Grant Award: $280
Lower Dead River Watershed Citizen Advisory Council
Project Title: Spring stream clean up along Badger Creek.
Project Grant Award: $100
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Project Title: Upgrading the computer system utilized by the organization for communication on water issues.
Project Grant Award: $350
Mona Lake Watershed Council
Project Title: Develop a display board and materials for use in May 2005 Second Annual Mona Lake Watershed Day.
Project Grant Award: $450
Niagara River Area Property Owners Group
Project Title: Protect Our Wetlands (Niagara River/Fort Erie)
Project Grant Award: $500
North Toronto Green Community
Project Title: Assisting with the tuition costs for the Institute for Conservation Leadership's Complete Fundraiser Program.
Project Grant Award: $300
River Raisin Watershed Council
Project Title: Office transition expenses.
Project Grant Award: $500
Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Project Grant Award: $500
Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay
Project Title: Airfare to/from San Diego for the annual Waterkeeper Alliance meeting.
Project Grant Award: $280
Wisconsin Association of Lakes
Project Title: Host a symposium on October 8, 2004 about managing aquatic exotics in Wisconsin's inland lakes.
Project Grant Award: $250
Fall 2004 GLAHNF Grant Recipients
Cirque du Lake Water Cycle Circus
Project Title: Go Deeper - A video documentary about watershed issues and community.
Project Grant Award: $2,809
Citizens Against Toxic Substance (CATS)
Project Title: Protect wildlife, wetland/100-year floodplain and quality of human environment.
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Citizens' Environment Watch
Project Title: Improving citizen engagement in water quality monitoring in southern Ontario
Project Grant Award: $3,442
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $1,978
Duck and Otter Creeks Partnership, Inc.
Project Title: Public input on watershed and wetlands restoration plans plus build organizational capacity.
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Friends of the Bayfield River
Project Title: Protecting the Huron shoreline: A guide for home & cottage owners
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Friends of the Boyne River
Project Title: Save the Boyne River
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Grassroots initiative to stop an environmentally-destructive road expansion project in Wisconsin.
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,000
Kalamazoo River Protection Association
Project Title: A report and film on the Kalamazoo river to clean it up.
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $2,000
Les Cheneaux Watershed Council
Project Title: Les Cheneaux Watershed Council community education and capacity development.
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $1,440
Michigan River Alliance
Project Title: Strengthening the Michigan River Alliance by building capacity and coalitions.
Project Grant Award: $2,750
Technical Assistance Grant Award: $1,000
Mona Lake Watershed Council
Project Title: Mona Lake Watershed Council Capacity building through equipment purchase.
Project Grant Award: $2,500
People in Need of Environmental Safety
Project Title: Pines Citizen Empowerment Project Phase II
Grant Award: $3,500
Presque Isle Audubon Society
Project Title: Alternative Lawn Care Conference
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Residents for Responsible Government
Project Title: Protecting the Lake Ontario Watershed and the Health of the Community
Project Grant Award: $3,500
Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association
Project Title: Seneca Lake Watershed Community Environmental Awareness: Town of Torrey, Yates County
Project Grant Award: $3,500
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Project Title: Manoomin Ogitchidaag (Defending the Rice) through video documentation and distribution.
Project Grant Award: $3,000
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation
Project Title: Environment Stewardship Research Project
Grant Award: $2,000
Citizens Concerned For Michipicoten Bay
Project Title: Enforcing existing legislation for the protection of coastal habitat on Lake Superior
Grant Award: $3,500
Family Farm Defenders
Project Title: Building a Statewide Grassroots Network to Challenge Factory Farm Expansion in Wisconsin
Grant Award: $1,000
Friends of Silver Lake
Project Title: Save Silver Lake, Create Community Park
Grant Award: $2,500
Maumee Bay Association
Project Title: Maumee Bay - Dredging & Power Plant Intakes
Grant Award: $2,800
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Project Title: Water: Safeguarding the Commons and Public Trust
Grant Award: $3,100
Midwest Environmental Advocates
Project Title: Clean Water Act Implementation and Enforcement Project
Grant Award: $2,000
Niagara River Area Property Owners Group
Project Title: Protect Our Wetlands (Niagara River Fort Erie)
Grant Award: $1,800
Northwoods Wilderness Recovery
Project Title: Front 40 Media Project
Grant Award: $1,500
Pennsylvania Lake Erie Watershed Association
Project Title: PLEWA: Creating Change In Our Watersheds
Grant Award: $1,500
Port Hope Nuclear Environmental Watchdogs
Project Title: Environmental Issues Involving the Nuclear Industry in Port Hope, Ontario - Community Tabloid
Grant Award: $1,800
Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources (POWER)
Project Title: Appeal to Ontario Cabinet to Deny Expansion of Massive Niagara Escarpment Quarry
Grant Award: $3,000
Saving Wetlands and Trees in Chesterfield Township, Inc
Project Title: Protecting Citizen's Rights To Speak Out
Grant Award: $3,100
Southeast Environmental Task Force
Project Title: Lake Calumet Vision Implementation
Grant Award: $1,500
Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Grant Award: $1,300
Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation
Project Title: Groundwater study to provide scientific data to stop proposed confined hog operation
Grant Award: $2,300
2003 Special Opportunity Grants
Earthology
Project Title: Recruit New Volunteers for Great Lakes Organizations
Grant Award: $500
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Dinner and Forum Meeting
Grant Award: $500
Erie Streams Association of Volunteer Monitors
Project Title: Data Collection on Lake Erie Basin Streams
Grant Award: $500
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Professional Fees for Effort to Stop Construction of HWY J
Grant Award: $500
Lone Tree Council
Project Title: Project to Stop Pier Expansion in Bay City
Grant Award: $500
Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Travel costs to Waterkeeper Alliance
Grant Award: $380
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Project Title: Prevent Bridge Construction Across the Boardman River
Grant Award: $500
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund
Project Title: Sunoco Refinery Good Neighbor Campaign
Grant Award: $500
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
Project Title: Ecofluency: the Video
Grant Award: $494
Greg Reisig
Project Title: Advocacy Work at two Endangered Wetland Sites in the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed
Grant Award: $500
Troy Wildlife and Wetlands
Project Title: Grassroots Activism to Protect Aquatic Habitats in the City of Troy, Michigan
Grant Award: $455
Citizens Environment Watch
Project Title: Changing Currents in the Greater Toronto Area: Strengthening Citizen Involvement in Aquatic Habitat Protection
Grant Award: $2,500
Environmentally Concerned Citizens of the Lakeland Area
Project Title: Shoreland Connection Toolkit and Advocacy Campaign
Grant Award: $2,500
Erie Streams Association of Volunteer Monitors
Project Title: Watershed Awareness and Community Involvement Project
Grant Award: $2,000
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Partners Fighting the Riverview Trenton Railroad and Supporting the Wildlife Refuge
Grant Award: $3,300
Friends of the Salmon River
Project Title: Protect Deer Creek Marsh, Selkirk Fen, the Salmon River and its estuary
Grant Award: $3,000
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Grasssroots Initiative to Stop An Environmentally-Destructive Road Expansion Project in Wisconsin
Grant Award: $2,900
Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation
Project Title: Empowering Citizens to Protect Wetlands from Off-Road Vehicle Damage
Grant Award: $3,000
North Shore Watershed Watch
Project Title: Power Analysis of Citizen Opportunities to Shape Policy on Minnesota's North Shore
Grant Award: $3,000
People in Need of Environmental Safety
Project Title: PINES Citizen Empowerment Project
Grant Award: $3,500
Residents for Responsible Government
Project Title: Protecting the Lake Ontario Watershed and the Health of the Community
Grant Award: $3,000
Taxpayers Against Airport Growth
Project Title: Grassroots Citizen Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
Grant Award: $2,700
Troy Wildlife & Wetlands Coalition
Project Title: Grassroots Activism to Protect Aquatic Habitats in the City of Troy, Michigan
Grant Award: $2,000
Waukegan Harbor Citizens' Advisory Group
Project Title: Waukegan Harbor CAG Public Outreach Funding Request
Grant Award: $1,500
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Project Title: Manoomin Ogitchidaag (Defending the Rice) Community Outreach Campaign
Grant Award: $2,500
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Inc.
Project Title: Hydrology Pan - Yellow Dog Plains
Grant Award: $2,000
Bi-state Council of Wolf Lake Stewards
Project Title: Development of Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration at Wolf Lake Natural Area Sites
Grant Award: $1000
Residents for Environmental Action & Community Health
Project Title: Implementing More Effective and Less Toxic Methods of Controlling West Nile Virus
Grant Award: $797
Saving Wetlands and Trees in Chesterfield Township, Inc
Project Title: Protecting Chesterfield Township's Wetlands Through Action
Grant Award: $3000
Lone Tree Council
Project Title: The Beauty and Benefits of Saginaw Bay's Coastal Marshes: An Educational Outreach Program
Grant Award: $2800
Save Lake Superior Association
Project Title: Cessation of Wetland Destruction by MNDNR Resulting from Beaver Dam Removal
Grant Award: $2500
Earthology
Project Title: Waterfest: A Great Lakes Wetland Education and Recruitment Campaign
Grant Award: $3000
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Alliance
Project Title: Tracing Toxins in runoff to Canandaigua Lake
Grant Award: $2000
Friends of Sheldon Marsh
Project Title: Legal Intervention Supporting Protection and Restoration of Sheldon Marsh
Grant Award: $3000
Friends of Red Hill Valley
Project Title: Red Hill Valley - No Place for a Road
Grant Award: $3500
Shoreline Stewardship Association of Cloud Bay
Project Title: Cloud Bay Wetland Public Awareness & Long Term Protection Programme
Grant Award: $3000
Grey Association for Better Planning
Project Title: Conserving Ontario's Water Supplies
Grant Award: $3000
Oakvillegreen Conservation Association
Project Title: Saving the Trafalgar Moraine from Encroaching Development
Grant Award: $3300
Junior PA Lake Erie Watershed Association
Project Title: "Making the News" - Project Clean Sweep's public education effort
Grant Award: $2000
Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Building an Internet Community for Lake Superior Waterkeeper
Grant Award: $2750
2002 Special Opportunity Grants
Blue Mountain Watershed Trust
Project Title: Silver Creek Wetlands Research and Public Information Campaign
Grant Award: $500
A Few Friends for the Environment
Project Title: Transcripts for a Contested Case Hearing
Grant Award: $500
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe
Project Title: Travel to the Great Lakes United Meeting in Chicago
Grant Award: $500
Duluth Audubon Society, Inc
Project Title: Bird Census in the Spirit Mountain Old Growth Forest and Wetlands Area
Grant Award: $500
Highway J Citizens Group
Project Title: Stop Unnecessary Road Expansion
Grant Award: $500
Lake Superior Walkers
Project Title: Travel to the Great Lakes United Meeting in Chicago
Grant Award: $344
River Alliance of Wisconsin
Project Title: Statewide Rivers Conference
Grant Award: $500
Thunder Bay Field Naturalists
Project Title: Saving Williams Bog
Grant Award: $500
EUP Conservation Design Task Force
Project Title: Exhibit on Conservation Design and Zoning at County Fair
Grant Award: $125
Friends of the St. Joe River Association
Project Title: Upgrading Website to Include Water Quality Monitoring Goals
Grant Award: $500
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Project Title: Education Video For Water Wars
Grant Award: $500
Bad River Watershed Association
Project Title: Purchasing a Stereoscopic Microscope for Water Quality Monitoring
Grant Award: $500
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: International Wildlife Refuge Media Advocacy
Grant Award: $500
Quinte Watershed Cleanup, Inc.
Project Title: Back to Nature Campaign: Display and Workshops
Grant Award: $500
Waukegan Harbor Citizen's Advisory Group
Project Title: Dunal Area Amphibian Community Inventory
Grant Award: $1000
THE LIVING BY WATER PROJECT
PROJECT TITLE: On the Living Edge: Your Handbook for Waterfront Living
GRANT AWARD: $2,800.00
CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR MICHIPICOTEN BAY
PROJECT TITLE: Preserving the Integrity of the Coastline and Coastal Habitat of Michipicoten Bay
GRANT AWARD: $3,300.00
CITIZENS FOR BUCKEYE BASIN PARKS, INC.
PROJECT TITLE:: Appraisal of Marsh Headwater Land to Leverage $50,000 Purchase Grant Awarded by NAWCA
GRANT AWARD: $1,400.00
BEAVER ISLAND PROPERTY OWNER'S ASSOCIATION
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Assessment of Beaver Island Shoreline Public Land
GRANT AWARD: $2,500.00
FRIENDS OF THE CEDAR RIVER
PROJECT TITLE: Cedar River Designated Natural River
GRANT AWARD: $2,900.00
CLEAN WATER ACTION COUNCIL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
PROJECT TITLE: Fox River Cleanup and Compensation Project
GRANT AWARD: $3,500.00
FRIENDS OF THE BUFFALO NIAGARA RIVERS, INC.
PROJECT TITLE: Restoration of the Niagara River Ecosystem through Power Project Relicensing
GRANT AWARD: $3,200.00
SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
PROJECT TITLE: Calumet Community Development and Open Space Enhancement
GRANT AWARD: $2,750.00
TAXPAYERS AGAINST AIRPORT GROWTH
PROJECT TITLE: Grassroots Citizens Opposition to the City of West Bend Airport Expansion
GRANT AWARD: $2,800.00
HIGHWAY J CITIZENS GROUP
PROJECT TITLE: Grassroots Initiative to Stop an Environmentally Destructive Road Expansion Project in Wisconsin
GRANT AWARD: $3,300.00
FIRELANDS LAND CONSERVANCY
PROJECT TITLE: Outreach to Landowners on the Vermillion River
GRANT AWARD: $1,500.00
BERNACCHI WETLAND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
PROJECT TITLE: Bernacchi Wetland Defense
GRANT AWARD: $2,200.00
CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK, INC.
PROJECT TITLE: Increasing Collaboration of and Access to Water Monitoring Data
GRANT AWARD: $2,500.00
ADIRONDACK WATERSHED INSTITUTE
PROJECT TITLE: Adirondack Lake Assessment Program
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,800
BALLYCROY AREA RURAL CONSERVATION ALLIANCE
PROJECT TITLE: Opposing a large golf course resort and recreational facility located within the upper reaches of the Humber River Watershed on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
BULL CREEK STAKEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION
PROJECT TITLE: Monitoring Water Quality and Aquatic Habitat Improvements of Bull Creek Stabilization/Restoration Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
CEDAR CREEK WILDLIFE PROJECT
PROJECT TITLE: Supporting the State of Indiana's Authority to Regulate Isolated Wetlands
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,000
SERPENT RIVER FIRST NATION ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
PROJECT TITLE: Investing Today for Tomorrow's Environmental Leaders
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
FAMILY FARM DEFENDERS
PROJECT TITLE: Building Rural-Urban Coalitions to Challenge Factory Dairy Farms in Wisconsin
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1,000
FRIENDS OF THE DETROIT RIVER
PROJECT TITLE: Community Action Fund for Gibraltar, Michigan
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,800
FRIENDS OF SHELDON MARSH
PROJECT TITLE: Continued Advocacy for the Restoration and Protection of Sheldon Marsh
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
GREY ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER PLANNING
PROJECT TITLE: Conserving Ontario's Water Supplies
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA (INDIANA DIVISION)
PROJECT TITLE: Cedar Creek Natural Areas and Water Quality Preservation Advocacy Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR WATER CONSERVATION
PROJECT TITLE: Protecting Michigan's Water Resources: The Case Against Perrier
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES
PROJECT TITLE: Factory Farm Citizen Education and Enforcement Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,500
PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIVERS
PROJECT TITLE: Lake Erie Watershed Clean Water Act Training
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,800
PESTICIDE FREE ONTARIO
PROJECT TITLE: Front Page Challenge: A Coordinated Media Campaign
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,800
2001 SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS
Bayfield County Lakes Forum
PROJECT TITLE: Northern Wisconsin Lakes Fair 2001
AMOUNT FUNDED: $340.00
Citizens United for Action
PROJECT TITLE: Citizen Wetland Protection, "The Meadows" Proposed Subdivision
AMOUNT FUNDED: $163.36
Friends of Sheldon Marsh
PROJECT TITLE: Public Information Campaign
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Hamilton Naturalists' Club
PROJECT TITLE: Drawing the Line Against Urban Sprawl: Challenging the Decision to Expand Hamilton's Urban Boundary at the Ontario Municipal Board
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Lake Bluff Open Lands Association
PROJECT TITLE: Open Lands Day Community Restoration Workday Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $300
Lake Superior Alliance
PROJECT TITLE: Shoreline Development: The Economic and Environmental Impacts Talk
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Public Access Keweenaw
PROJECT TITLE: Website to Educate the Public re: State of Michigan Purchase of Sensitive Aquatic Habitat Lands in Keweenaw Peninsula
AMOUNT FUNDED: $174
River Alliance of Wisconsin
PROJECT TITLE: Scholarships to Great Lakes Grassroots Leaders to Statewide Rivers Conference
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Shiawasee River Task Force
PROJECT TITLE: Promote Watershed Stewardship and Conduct the First Annual "Shiawasee River Headwaters Day"
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
C.U.F.A. (Citizens United for Action)
PROJECT TITLE: Fight to Preserve Inkster Wetland
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,500
FRIENDS OF ROSE TOWNSHIP
PROJECT TITLE: Action to Protect The Buckhorn Lake Complex
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
H2INFO
PROJECT TITLE: What's In Your Sewers?
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,600
LAKE SUPERIOR ALLIANCE
PROJECT TITLE: Strategic Planning for Long-Term Organizational Sustainability
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
MILL CREEK BIOLOGICAL VOLUNTEER MONITORING PROJECT
PROJECT TITLE: Saving Mill Creek
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN AUDUBON, INC. (NEW AUDUBON, INC.)
PROJECT TITLE: Wisconsin Frogs - Places to Hear Frogs and Toads Near
Our Urban Areas
AMOUNT FUNDED: $800
PLACE (Portage Land Association for Conservation & Education)
PROJECT TITLE: Breakneck Creek Conservation Area Strategic Conservation Initiative
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,600
SAVE THE PRAIRIE SOCIETY
PROJECT TITLE: Wetland and Watershed Seminar at Wolf Road Prairie
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,000
SCAJAQUADA CREEK WATERSHED ADVISORY COUNCIL
PROJECT TITLE: Best Management Practices to Protect and Restore Riparian
Aquatic Habitat on Scajaquada Creek
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,200
SKYLINE PLANNING & PRESERVATION ALLIANCE
PROJECT TITLE: A Concerned Citizen's Guide to Exploring and Protecting the
Threatened Creeks of Duluth
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
TROY WILDLIFE & WETLANDS COALITION
PROJECT TITLE: Grassroots Activism to Protect Aquatic Habitat in the City of Troy
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,500
UXBRIDGE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
PROJECT TITLE: Duffins Creek Watershed Program
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,600
WALNUT CREEK S.E.W.E.R. PROJECT
PROJECT TITLE: Walnut Creek S.E.W.E.R. Project: The Next Step
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1,500
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF LAKES, INC.
PROJECT TITLE: Waterfront Property Owners' Education Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
AWAKE (Association Working Against Keweenaw Exploitation)
PROJECT TITLE: Citizen Watershed Monitoring Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1,600
CAYUGA LAKE WATERSHED NETWORK, INC.
PROJECT TITLE: Member Recruitment
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,750
FOREVER GREEN
PROJECT TITLE: Strategic Planning for Land and Habitat Preservation
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF SENECA PARK
PROJECT TITLE: Consultation Regarding the Seneca Park Zoo Expansion
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
FRIENDS OF SHELDON MARSH
PROJECT TITLE: Advocate for the Restoration and Protection of Sheldon Marsh
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,100
FRIENDS OF THE BRANCH RIVER
PROJECT TITLE: Provide Advocacy to Restore and Protect Lake Michigan
Bluffs and Habitat
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,750
GLINODO EARTH FORCE
PROJECT TITLE: Earth Force Aquatic Habitat Project 2001-2002
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA
PROJECT TITLE: Vegetative Assessment of Spirit Mountain
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,800
LAPORTE COUNTY CONSERVATION TRUST, INC.
PROJECT TITLE: Craven Pond Restoration - Botanical Survey
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES
PROJECT TITLE: Organizational Development
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
MUTUAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF LAKE ENVIRONMENTS (MAPLE)
PROJECT TITLE: MAPLE Manual, Website, and Nursery Development
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,000
SAVE OUR LAKES AND RIVERS
PROJECT TITLE: Log Off
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,500
SHORELINE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION OF CLOUD BAY
PROJECT TITLE: Cloud Bay Wetland Public Awareness and Protection Programme
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3,100
WAUKEGAN HARBOR CITIZENS' ADVISORY GROUP
PROJECT TITLE: Plant Survey of Dunal Areas
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2,600
2000 Special Opportunity Grant Recipients
Clean Water Action Council of Northeast Wisconsin
PROJECT TITLE: Cover extra costs related to local citizen participation in the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA)
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Huron River Watershed Council
PROJECT TITLE: Provide technical assistance to citizens and other key stakeholders in watershed communities
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Citizens Environment Alliance
PROJECT TITLE: Provide financial assistance to interested people unable to afford the full cost of the boat tour
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Northern Tittabawassee River Task Force
PROJECT TITLE: Mailing
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Friends of the Detroit River, Inc.
PROJECT TITLE: Activities to build appreciation and support for protection of the Detroit River
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Friends of the Land of Keweenaw
PROJECT TITLE: Public Meeting
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Indigenous Environmental Network
PROJECT TITLE: Educational Workshop
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Macomb Land Conservancy
PROJECT TITLE: Creating a citizen-based water-monitoring program
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
The Mill Creek Biological Monitoring Project
PROJECT TITLE: Monitoring of Mill Creek
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Citizens' Environment Watch
PROJECT TITLE: Conference
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Sugarloaf Interpretive Center Association
PROJECT TITLE: Stream water testing and analysis
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Ohio Environmental Council
PROJECT TITLE: "Starting Up - Friends of Euclid Creek"
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2500
Buffalo Audubon Society, Inc.
Project Title: Urban Wetlands Outdoor Education to Promote Preservation
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1500
West Creek Preservation Committee
PROJECT TITLE: West Creek Watershed Awareness and Preservation Campaign
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1500
New York Conservation Education Fund
PROJECT TITLE: Dombind in the U.S.
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3300
Superior Hiking Trail Association
Project Title: Teaching Leave No Trace Ethics to promote responsible hiking and camping
AMOUNT FUNDED: $500
Toronto Bay Initiative (TBI)
PROJECT TITLE: Toronto Bay Initiative Maple Leaf Aquatic Habitat Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3200
Environmental Bureau of Investigation
PROJECT TITLE: Establishment of a Water Keeper program on the North Shore of Lake Ontario
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3500
Friends of the Coves Sub-Watershed
PROJECT TITLE: Office Start-Up Project
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3452
WILDHEARTS
Project Title: Elk River Chain-Of-Lakes Watershed: Loon Protection Project Initiative #1 - Habitat Preservation: Lake Bellaire Loon Nursery
AMOUNT FUNDED: $3500
Sierra Club Eastern Canada Chapter
PROJECT TITLE: The Sierra Club Conference on intensive livestock operations and the environment
AMOUNT FUNDED: $1700
Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council
Project Title: State of the Aquatic Habitat of the Mid-Michigan Region
AMOUNT FUNDED: $2800
Coalition for Sensible Growth
Project Title: Smarter Roads to Protect the Boardman River
Grant Award: $3000
EUP Conservation Design Task Force
Project Title: Conservation Design Project
Grant Award: $3000
Northwoods Wilderness Recovery
Project Title: Wild and Scenic Rivers Project
Grant Award: $2000
West Skyline Planning and Preservation
Project Title: West Skyline Planning and Preservation Alliance Lawsuit
Grant Award: $2500
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Task Force
Project Title: Direct Impacts: Direct Drainage
Grant Award: $2000
New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Project Title:Genesee River Watershed Network
Grant Award: $2000
Coalition for a Safe Environment
Project Title: Portage River Pollution Prevention Project
Grant Award: $3000
Bert Miller Nature Club of Fort Erie
Project Title: Marcy Woods Preservation Project
Grant Award: $2500
GreenCASE
Project Title: Public Education on Local Wetland and Woodland Conservation: Values and Management
Grant Award: $1800
The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
Project Title: Beach and Dune Management Guidance Manual for the Town of Saugeen Shores, Ontario
Grant Amount: $2500
Ontario Streams
Project Title: River Rendezvous
Grant Award: $2000
Glinodo Earth Force
Project Title: Earth Force Aquatic Habitat Project 2000-2001
Grant Amount: $3000
League of Women Voters - Ashland
Project Title: Land Use Forums in Ashland County
Grant Award: $2500
Midwest Environmental Advocates
Project Title: Factory Farm Enforcement Project
Grant Award: $3000
1999 Special Opportunity Grant Recipients
Michigan Environmental Protection Foundation
Description: Information dissemination regarding a recent DEQ administrative law judge decision
Grant Award $500.00
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Description: Reed Lake Lakewatch Program's water quality monitoring citizen involvement campaign
Grant Award $490.00
Michigan Drain Code Coalition
Description: Production and distribution of a series of articles and case studies to inform citizens of the need for Drain Code reform
Grant amount $500.00
Friends of the Crystal River
Description: Support for a court case, Friends of the Crystal River vs. Kuras Propoerties, MDNR, in the form of preparation of legal briefs and a media campaign
Grant amount $500.00
Black River Audubon Society
Description: Application for IRS tax-exempt status
Grant amount $500.00
WATER
Description: Teaching high school students to perform water sampling and sampling sites requested by community groups
Grant amount $500.00
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Description: Legal representation to help fight an appeal to place a vehicular access bridge across the North Branch of the Boardman River, a state-designated Natural River
Grant amount $500.00
Aki-kwe
Description: Travel expenses for a strategy meeting at Walpole Island
Grant amount $500.00
SmallMediaLarge
Description: Expenses associated with the development of a grassroots coalition to form a regional buying association in order to stimulate growth of the green power industry to help protect aquatic habitats in the area
Grant amount $500.00
Firelands Land Conservancy
Project Title: Launching the Firelands Land Conservancy
Amount Funded: $2000
Fischer Creek Alliance
Project Title: Strengthening and Expanding the Fischer Creek Alliance
Amount Funded: $2500
Friends of the Crooked River
Project Title: Parma Wetlands Permit Appeal
Amount Funded: $3000
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Wetlands Project
Amount Funded: $$1800
Hastings Price Edward Land Trust
Project Title: Pt. Petre to Prince Edward Pt. Conservation Project
Amount Funded: $1750. (U.S. Funds)
Improving Kids' Environment (IKE)
Project Title: Right-to-Know for CSO's
Amount Funded: $1500
Michigan Environmental Law Center
Project Title: Capacity Building for the Michigan Environmental Law Center
Amount Funded: $3000
Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation
Project Title: Mobilizing Citizens to Prevent Off-Highway Vehicle Damage to the Great Lakes Watershed
Amount Funded: $2750
Northeastern Wisconsin (New) Audubon, Inc.
Project Title: Wisconsin Frogs - A Guide to Listening Sites in Urban Wetland Habitats
Amount Funded: $1000
Quinte Watershed Cleanup Inc.
Project Title: Eliminate Dombind
Amount Funded: $1500 (U.S. Funds)
Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition (STORM)
Project Title: To build more effective network of STORM's membership and increase outreach to affiliated groups-individuals
Amount Funded: $2500
Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association, Inc.
Project Title: Advocating Water Quality through Municipal & Grassroots Partnerships in the Seneca Lake Watershed
Amount Funded: $2750
Uxbridge Conservation Association
Project Title: Oak Ridges Watershed Intervention
Amount Funded: $3000 (U.S. Funds)
Waukegan Harbor Citizens' Advisory Group
Project Title: Breeding and Migrant Bird Population Survey of the Dunal Area of Concern
Amount Funded: $2100
Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund (WCAF)
Project Title: Family Farm Stewardship Campaign - East River Watershed Protection Initiative
Amount Funded: $3000
Lake Bluff Open Lands Association
Project Title: Newsletter Announcement of Ravine Control and Pond Enhancement Open Lands Workday
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
ACRES, Inc.
Project Title: An Examination of the Cedar Creek and Its Tributaries to Determine the Status of the Endangered Indiana Bat
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
Charlevoix County Land Conservancy
Project Title: Office Basics for Building Grassroots Protection and Networking Capabilities
Amount Funded: $1,000.00
Coalition for Sensible Growth
Project Title: Boardman River Transportation Alternatives
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Friends of the Crystal River
Project Title: US Army Corps Hearing and Comment Period for Homestead 404 Permit Application
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Neighborhood Wetland Monitors
Project Title: The Inventory, Monitoring, and Education of Vulnerable and Unprotected Wetlands in Kent County
Amount Funded: $1,125.00
Friends of the North Shore
Project Title: Community Education Project Concerning Lake Superior
Amount Funded: $2,475.00
Great Lakes Regional Indigenous Environmnetal Network
Project Title: Walk Around Lake Superior
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Finger Lakes Land Trust
Project Title: Leadership Training for Key Volunteers
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Friends of Edison Woods
Project Title: Awareness Campaign to Protect Edison Woods
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
David Vasarlhelyi
Project Title: West Creek Preservation Public Awareness, Education, and Involvement Campaign
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Environment North
Project Title: Identifying and Assisting Grassroots Community Support for the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Proposal
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Save Our Ravines
Project Title: Opposition of Appeal to Ontario Municapal Board
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Water Protection Coalition of South Grey
Project Title: Protection of Wetland Habitat Through Opposition to Proposed Water Taking by Artemesia Waters Ltd.
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Glinodo Earth Force
Project Title: Earth Force Aquatic Habitat Projects
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
EarthWINS
Project Title: Grassroots Rural Online Webworks (GROW)
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
League of Women Voters
Project Title: Public Information Campaign for Shoreline Zoning Ordinance Revision
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Wisconsin Stewardhip Network
Project Title: Protecting Wisconsin's Environment by Empowering State Employees
Amount Funded: $2,200
Northwoods Alliance
Project Title: Northwoods County Initiative to Protect Waters from Metallic Mining
Amount Funded: $2,350
Lake Superior Alliance
Project Title: Northshore Activist Project
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Friends of the Chicago River
Project Title: Watershed Action Plan for the North Branch Chicago River Watershed in the Cook County Forest Preserves
Amount Funded: $1,000.00
Illinois PIRG Education Fund
Project Title: Toxics Right To Know
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Bernacchi Wetland Legal Defense Fund
Project Title: Bernacchi Family Wetland Legal Defense Fund
Amount Funded: $1,000.00
Chocolay River Watershed Project
Project Title: Protecting Critical Habitat Watershed by Watershed
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
Friends of the Detroit River
Project Title: Wetlands Project
Amount Funded: $1,500.00
Project Watershed Central New York
Project Title: Project Watershed's Select-A-Stream Program
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association
Geneva NY 14456-0247
Project Title: Building Water Quality Advocacy in the Seneca Lake Watershed
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
Kelleys Island Audubon Society
Project Title: Kelleys Island Natural Areas Preservation
Amount Funded: $2,900.00
The Black Swamp Conservancy
Project Title: Preserving the Maumee River Watershed--A Mini-Conference Series
Amount Funded: $3,000.00
AKI - KWE
Project Title: NIIBI
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Kingston Field Naturalists
Project Title: Little Cat Restoration Project
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Rondeau Bay Watershed Rehab Program
Project Title: Rondeau Bay Watershed Habitat Rehabilitation/Management Plan
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
Toronto Environmental Alliance
Project Title: Getting the Word Out: A Media Campaign About Pesticides
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
WATER
Project Title: Watershed Stewardship Programme, Involving University, Community and High
Amount Funded: $1,000.00
Chequamegon Audubon Society
Project Title: Northern Wisconsin Aquatic Habitat Protection Initiative
Amount Funded: $1,500.00
Fischer Creek Alliance
Project Title: Launching the Fischer Creek Alliance
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
Green Onion Resource Center
Project Title: Woods & Waters Initiative
Amount Funded: $2,500.00
1998 Special Opportunity Grants Program Recipients
Friends of the North Shore
Description: Defray cost of informational mailing concerning the proposed development of a boat launch
Grant Award: $500.00
Coalition to Stop the Des Moines
Description: Support public outreach campaign concerning the proposed establishment of a new state park
Grant Award: $500.00
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund
Description: Support grassroots advocacy through reimbursement of Great Lakes Initiative related expenses
Grant Award: $84.24
Hermantown High School
Description: Enhance efforts of the Miller Creek Task Force through participation in River Congress
Grant Award: $485.00
West Creek Preservation Committee
Description: Generate support for a natural park through publication of West Creek Preservation Committee newsletter
Grant Award: $500.00
Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education
Description: Sponsor the attendance of EAGLE's Debbie Ortman at the Sustainable America Conference
Grant Award: $314.00
Inland Sea Society (ISS)
Description: Sponsor the attendance of ISS's Mike Gardner at the Great Lakes Executive Directors Program Rendezvous
Grant Award: $498.00
Watershed Report Card (Rouge Valley Foundation)
Description: Cover costs associated with hosting a watershed training workshop for community groups
Grant Award: $500.00
Kingston Field Naturalists
Description: Collect and research background information required to proceed with landowner contact for the stewardship and buffer enhancement project on the East Branch of the Little Cataraqui Creek.
Grant Award: $500.00
Paradise Lake Association
Description: Special Opportunity Grant to support the Paradise Lake Eurasian Watermilfoil Biological Control Public Information Program
Grant Award: $500.00
Oakland Land Conservancy
Description: To hire a consultant to conduct financial research for the acquisition of a critical piece of property along the Clinton River.
Grant Award: $500.00
Michigan Environmental Council
Description: Special Opportunity Grant to Prepare Amicus Curie Brief for Friends of Crystal River v. Kuras Properties, et al.
Grant Award $350.00
Belfountain Community Planning Organization
Title: BCPO Watershed Planning Project
Granted Award: $2,500.00
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Task Force
Title: Sucker Brook Survey & Report
Grant Award: $2,750.00
Clean North
Title: Pesticide Bylaw Project
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Coalition for a Safe Environment
Title: Planning & Building to Protect Habitats Beyond 2000
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Duluth Citywide Environmental Coalition
Title: Media & Electoral Training for Environmentalists
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Flintsteel Restoration Assc, Inc./AWAKE
Title: Citizen Based Watershed Monitoring
Grant Award: $2,750.00
Friends of the Land of Keweenaw
Title: Keweenaw Threatened - Keweenaw Preserved
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Inland Sea Society, Inc.
Title: Community Stewardship Program
Grant Award: $2,500.00
League of Women Voters-Milwaukee
Title: Wetland Workshop for Township Elected Officials
Grant Award: $2,750.00
Northwoods Alliance
Title: Voices From Lake Elliot Speaking Tour
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Rivers Unlimited
Title: Campaign for Increased Citizen Involvement in Water Pollution Permitting in Ohio's Great Lakes Basin
Grant Award: $2,500.00
St Joseph River Watershed Initiative
Title: River Friendly Farmer Program
Grant Award: $1,150.00
Superior Wilderness Action Network
Title: Superior Northwoods Wildlands Project, Outreach & Forest Watch
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Inc.
Title: Yellow Dog Watershed Effectiveness Improvement Program
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Bernacchi Family Wetland Legal Defense
Title: Legal defense to protect wetland from drainage by drainage board
Grant Award: $1,000.00
Coalition for Sensible Growth
Title: Boardman River Bridge Alternatives
Grant Award: $3,150.00
Dowagiac Watershed Master's Project/MEANDRS
Title: Feasibility Assesssment of Rehabilitating the Dowagiac River System
Grant Award: $700.00
The Friends of the Jordan River Watershed, Inc.
Title: Jordan River Watershed Handbook
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Michigan Environmental Protection Foundation
Title: Restructuring and Strategic Planning
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Michigan Hydro Relicensing Coalitionn
Title: Community Involvement in Hydroelectric Dam Operations
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Muskegon Lake and White Lake Public Advisory Councils
Title: Demonstration Plantings and Strategic Planning
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Clean Water Fund
Title: Clean Water Action Activist Network
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Miller Creek Task Force
Title: Miller Creek Restoration and Preservation
Grant Award: $3,200.00
Minnesota Parks and Trails Council
Title: Implementation of North Shore Opportunities Plan
Grant Award: $2,250.00
Atlantic States Legal Foundation
Title: Tuscarora Nation Environment Program
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Cayuga Nature Center
Title: Cayuga Lake Watershed Network Organizing
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Finger Lakes Land Trust
Title: Owning Our Future: Citizen Planning In The Cayuga Watershed
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Nine Mile Creek Conservation Council
Title: Board Development and Critical Environmental Area Monitoring
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation
Title: Landowner Survey/Contract Program
Grant Award: $2,450.00
Couchiching Conservancy
Title: Wetlands Involvement Project
Grant Award: $2,100.00
Wildlands League
Title: Ontario Forest Protection Project
Grant Award: $2,331.00
Mill Creek Project II
Title: Advocacy for a Healthy Watershed
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Friends of Pheasant Branch, Inc.
Title: Land and Water Resource Protection in the Pheasant Branch Watershed
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Nine Springs Network
Title: 1998 Information, Education, and Advocacy Campaign
Grant Award: $2,500.00
1997 Special Opportunity Grants Program Recipients
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Description: Attend Wetland Conference
Grant Award: $500.00
Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination
Description: Support participation as Amicus Curiae
Grant Award: $500.00
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Description: Attend Wetland Conference
Grant Award: $255.00
Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council (Mid-MEAC)
Description: Support participation as Amicus Curiae
Grant Award: $500.00
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Description: Attend Congress of New Urbanism in Toronto
Grant Award: $500.00
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Description: Support participation as Amicus Curiae
Grant Award: $500.00
Whetstone Creek Watershed Project
Description: Generate Support and Promote Volunteer Efforts
Grant Award: $500.00
Michigan Environmental Protection Foundation/
Description: Sponsor meeting to re-generate public interest environmental legal defense services
Grant Award: $500.00
Clean Water Action
Description: Attend Membership Recruitment and Development Training
Grant Award: $335.00
Superior Wilderness Action Network
Description: Cover expenses to host 11th Annual Forest Reform Rally
Grant Award: $400.00
Duluth Community Garden Program
Description: Sponsor Sustainable Landscape Fair
Grant Award: $500.00
Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland
Title: Appeal of Certification for Nationwide Permit 26 in Ohio
Grant Award: $3,500.00
Cedar Creek Wildlife Project, Inc.
Title: Protecting Neotropical Migrant Birds by Saving Watershed Riverine Forests
Grant Award: $2,310.00
Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education
Title: Green Thumb Project
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Friends of the Shiawassee River
Title: Self-help Environmental Assessment of the Shiawassee River
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Kenosha/Racine Land Conservation Fund, Inc.
Title: Local Land Trust Development
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Les Cheneaux Chamber of Commerce
Title: Les Cheneaux Compatible Economic Development Project
Grant Award: $1,250.00
Lake Superior Alliance
Title: Michigan Upper Peninsula Mining Issues Advocacy Project
Grant Award: $3,000.00
Medina County Land Conservancy
Title: Rocky River and Wolf Creek Preservation Project
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Michigan Clean Water Fund
Title: Making the Aquatic Habitat Protection-Drinking Water Connection Project
Grant Award:$3,000.00
Northwatch
Title: North Shore Project
Grant Award: $3,500.00
Rondeau Bay Watershed Rehabilitation Program
Title: The Rondeau Bay Lead Sinker and Jig Awareness Campaign
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Schultz Lake Property Owner's Assoc.
Title: Inform and Advise Schultz Lake Property Owners
Grant Award: $825.00
Friends of Sandy Pond Beach
Title: Establishing the Independence of the Friends of Sandy Pond Beach Group
Grant Award: $1,250.00
Strong Vincent High School
Title: The Cascade Project
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Traverse City Children's Theater
Title: Learn From the Animals
Grant Award: $300.00
Watershed Action Towards Environmental Responsibility
LSB-529, McMaster University
Title: Watershed Stewardship Programme
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Affinity Newspaper
Title: Special Center Spread in Affinity: A focus on Aquatic Habitats
Grant Award: $1,600.00
Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, Inc.
Title: Chautauqua Watershed Habitat Stewardship Project
Grant Award: $2,600.00
Huron River Watershed Council
Title: Community Participation in the Protection of Fleming Creek Watershed
Grant Award: $945.00
Friends of Wetlands
Title: Multi-Media Membership & Fundraising Campaign
Grant Award: $2,080.00
Inland Sea Society, Inc.
Title: Organizational Renewal and Development
Grant Award: $2,250.00
Friends of the Menomonee River
Title: Capacity Building--Computer Purchase
Grant Award: $2,000.00
Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council (Mid-MEAC)
Title: Red Cedar River Homeowner Association Stewardship Project
Grant Award: $2,650.00
Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council (NMEAC)
Friends of Crystal River
Title: Environmental Summit--Judicial Threats to the Protection of Michigan's Wetlands
Grant Award: $2,500.00
Ontario Streams
Title: River Rendezvous
Grant Award: $2,300.00
Friends of Pheasant Branch, Inc.
Title: Restoration and Water Resource Preservation in the Pheasant Branch Marsh
Grant Award: $2,000.00
River Alliance of Wisconsin
Title: Research and Strategy Development to Address Small Dam Removal
Grant Award: $1,500.00
St. Clair/Six Mile Lake Natural Area
Title: Natural Area Protection, Promotion, and Public Outreach Project
Grant Award: $1,000.00
The Wetlands Project
Title: The Wetlands Project Media Network
Grant Award: $3,250.00
Save the Prairie Society
Title: Stream Corridor Recovery Project (Wolf Road Prairie)
Grant Award: $1,000.00
Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy, Inc (SWMLC)
Title: Volunteer Development, Recruitment, and Training
Grant Award: $2,250.00
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Inc.
Title: Yellow Dog Community Outreach Program
Grant Award: $2,250.00