Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News

The Newsletter of Freshwater Future

The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News is the newsletter of Freshwater Future, published four 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 16, Number 1 • Spring 2008

Events and Deadlines

River Network’s River Rally comes to the Great Lakes!
May 2nd- 5th, 2008 - Sawmill Creek
Resort, Huron, Ohio

The River Rally brings together hundreds of friends of rivers, water keepers, monitors, watchdogs, stewards, guardians, and others involved in watershed protection and restoration. River Rally is an exceptional training opportunity for Great Lakes conservation organizations and watershed partnerships. Participants inspire and teach each other, and celebrate efforts for healthier, sustainable communities and cleaner waters. This is the first time the Rally has been in the Great Lakes – let’s give it a Great Lakes welcome and turnout.

Freshwater Future’s 5th Annual Grassroots Symposium
We hope you’ll join us for a day of networking, training opportunities, tons of practical information, and tools on how to make our organizationsmore effective. The Symposium brings together grassroots advocates from throughout the Great Lakes basin to share, network, and reenergize. Please see back page for more information.

Spring Grant Cycle Deadline!
The deadline for Freshwater Future’s spring grant cycle is fast approaching! The deadline is 3/28/2008! Make sure to visit to our website, www.freshwaterfuture.org and check out the NEW Request for Proposals. For more information or to discuss your proposal call Gina at (231) 348-8200.

Disclaimer: The interpretations and conclusions presented in this newsletter represent the opinions of the individual authors. They in no way represent the views of the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, the C.S. Mott Foundation, subscribers, donors, or any organization mentioned in this publication.

Freshwater Future builds effective community-based citizen action to protect and restore the water quality of the Great Lakes basin. We work toward this goal by providing financial assistance, communications and networking assistance and technical assistance to citizens and grassroots watershed groups throughout the Great Lakes basin. Through these efforts we work with over 1,800 grassroots watershed groups and citizens to protect and restore the rivers, lakes and wetlands in their communities. Freshwater Future is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.

For more information, please contact:

info@freshwaterfuture.org
P.O. Box 2479,
Petoskey, MI 49770
PH (231) 348-8200;