Great Lakes Restoration: One Community at a Time Toolkit Available Now
Freshwater Future is thrilled to announce the release of our latest toolkit focused on Great Lakes Restoration. Restoring the Great Lakes happens--One Community at a Time. Every community that undertakes a project to restore the health of the lakes, rivers, wetlands, and shorelines brings great benefits.
This resource packet is designed to provide resources to help those working on or interested in working on such restorations in their communities by providing:
- Examples of five successful projects that incorporated meaningful citizen input into the process;
- A summary of why restoration is needed and solutions and the benefits that can accrue to communities undertaking such efforts;
- A resource manual to help citizens participate in and plan restoration projects of all types.
We hope this packet will be of use in planning and implementing restoration projects as well as in talking with decision makers and potential funders and project partners. Whether you are already working on a restoration project or might be able to provide comments to an ongoing project, your efforts are critical to restoring this global treasure.
Five Stories (pdf format)
Online content(pdf format)
More Online content coming soon:
- Longer Version for Each Story
- Brief Summaries for Each Story
Brief Summaries of Other Restoration Successes:
- Waukegan
- Kalamazoo River
- Detroit River
Submit you restoration success story
Additional copies of thepacket are available by calling (231) 348-8200 or emailing info@freshwaterfuture.org.
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, Inc. is a non-profit organization.
For more information, please contact:
info@freshwaterfuture.org
P.O. Box 2479, Petoskey, MI 49770
PH (231) 348-8200