Freshwater Voices

The Newsletter of Freshwater Future

Freshwater Voices is the newsletter of Freshwater Future, published four times per year. Freshwater Voices 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 17, Number 1 • Winter 2009

Freshwater Future Spring 2009 Grants Available
Deadline March 31, 2009

The passion shown by residents in the Great Lakes region for their local resources is inspiring and represents an important part of the environmental movement. Citizens participate in local decisions affecting our lakes, rivers, and wetlands, watchdog the enforcement of environmental laws, and create change through civic engagement. Through these important local activities, the citizens and community groups provide an important voice for water resource protection where the majority of land use decisions are made— at the local level. Realizing the importance of grassroots involvement, Freshwater Future provides financial assistance through our grants program to grassroots projects working to protect inland lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Organizations must be a member of Freshwater Future to be eligible for our grants program.

Our priority funding areas include:

  • Projects to protect and restore wetlands
  • Restoration activities
  • Land use planning and zoning
  • Watershed planning
  • Development, implementation and enforcement of local, state, provincial and federal habitat protection regulations.

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;