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BUFFALO, N.Y., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is honored to have received federal funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative totaling nearly $300,000. This grant will help the group and its partners lead an effort across the Great Lakes Basin for coordinated cleanups throughout 2022. This cleanup campaign is essential to preserving the future of the Great Lakes. It will also help keep today s drinking water resources safe and protect habitats throughout the entire interconnected Great Lakes Basin. Events run from April 24 until May 2, 2021.
The Great Lakes CleanUP is a collaborative single-week trash removal event to protect habitats throughout the Great Lakes Basin, from April 24 - May 2, 2021.
Prescribed burns planned at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this spring
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National Park Service fire personnel patrol the fireline on a 2019 prescribed burn in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.National Park Service
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EMPIRE, MI – Don’t be alarmed if you notice smoke and fire at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this month.
The National Park Service plans to conduct a prescribed fire in up to four burn units as early as April 19.
A prescribed fire is a management tool used to maintain healthy ecosystems, replenish fire dependent ecosystems, reduce available fuels in the event of wildfire, and assist with the management of invasive species.
April 7, 2021
Solutions to today s most complex sustainability challenges require new interaction models between university researchers and decision-makers in government, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations. The problem is that traditional research models rarely produce knowledge with the relevance and speed sufficient to inform decision-making in government and corporations. David M. Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CALS), helped overcome these issues in order to reduce the introduction, spread and impact of invasive species in the North American Great Lakes.
Sea Lamprey, Zebra and Quagga Mussels, Phragmites and many other invasive species cost the Great Lakes regional economy 100s of millions of dollars annually, while many new species, like Asian carps, threaten to arrive and spread each year.
The North Country Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area has been awarded two new grants to continue its work to stop the spread of invasive species in Northern Michigan.
A grant for $50,000 of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding, awarded by the U.S. Forest Service, will be held by the Mason-Lake Conservation District.
The USFS Grant, titled Parks as Showplaces for Control and Restoration, will allow NCCISMA to continue the work that they have been doing over the past several years, to remove invasive plants from area public parks and replace them with native species. Parks that have been the subject of previous work by NCCISMA include Lake City Parks, Big Rapids Parks and Mecosta County Parks. At Paris Park, in Mecosta County, interpretive signage has been installed to highlight the work done there by NCCISMA.
Extension specialistsâ workloads monitored
A newly signed law requires the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and UW-Madison chancellor to develop policies to monitor and report on Extension and outreach workloads of specialists funded by the UW-Division of Extension. The measure pertains to Extension-funded faculty and staff who work in applied agriculture at UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, or UW-Madisonâs College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
âOur state specialists are doing amazing work on the ground and in their communities, helping farmers adapt and grow their businesses and supporting the agricultural industry that is the backbone of our state,â said Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. âIâm glad to sign this bill so they can continue doing their good work and be recognized for going above and beyond for our farmers and our state.â