Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News
The Newsletter of the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News is the newsletter of the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund, published five times per year. The News is intended to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas among citizens and organizations working to protect aquatic habitats in the Great Lakes Basin.
Volume 15, Number 6 • Spring 2007
In the Media
Great Lakes Connections Aired this Spring
Wisconsin residents were asked to make the “Great
Lakes Connection” this April as a part of a special
partnership between Great Lakes Forever and
Wisconsin Public Television. The partnership
produced a special series of broadcasts about
Wisconsin's connection to the Great Lakes this year
on Wisconsin Public Television’s award-winning,
weekly news magazine program In Wisconsin with
Patty Loew.
The April In Wisconsin programs featured the
following Great Lakes topics: Lighthouse Rehab;
Safe Catch; Grandma Gen; Quagga Mussels; and
Biofouling. You too can make make the “Great Lakes
Connection” and watch these broadcasts online at
www.greatlakesforever.org/html/wpt/index.htm.
The website is a gateway to watching all the
Wisconsin Public Television stories with special outtakes,
producer's diaries, a talk back diary and more.
Great Lakes Forever is a public education initiative designed
to raise awareness of the value and vulnerability of the Great
Lakes. The program, initially launched in 2004 by the
Wisconsin-based Biodiversity Project is being expanded to
Chicago in 2005 with the support of the John G. Shedd
Aquarium and other Chicago and regional partners. This
coalition shares a common desire to create a broader, more
engaged constituency that sees reasons to get involved in
protecting the Great Lakes. Long-term, the campaign also
seeks to foster an institutional commitment and a
sustainable capacity to build that more engaged Great Lakes
constituency.
Great Lakes Forever frames discussion of the Lakes around
four key issues: water quality, water quantity, habitat
protection and invasive species control. This coalition of
partners and regional advisors is working to raise the profile
of important, but poorly understood Great Lakes issues, such
as: polluted run-off, groundwater depletion and habitat loss.
The program combines several communications components
in an effort to reach the public on these issues: media
outreach (press kits,) educational advertising (print and
radio,) point-of-experience signs (at lakefront areas,) and
Web-based outreach.
More than 20 U.S. and Canadian advisors are involved in the
Great Lakes Forever campaign including the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat and Network Fund.
For more information contact
Jeffrey Potter at 608-250-9876 or
info@greatlakesforever.org.
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