Michigan Clean Boats, Clean Waters Program awards $19,800 to stop the spread of aquatic invasive species
Seven projects received funding to educate boaters on the importance of cleaning, draining, and drying equipment.
Many grant awardees are integrating boat washing into their projects. Recently Clean Boats, Clean Waters joined forces with the Michigan State University and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy Mobile Boat Wash outreach program. Photo by Jo Latimore
The Michigan Clean Boats, Clean Waters program is funding seven outreach projects across Michigan to educate boaters about aquatic invasive species prevention. The awardees include lake associations, watershed groups, local units of government, and other nonprofit organizations. Grant funds will be used to communicate aquatic invasive species prevention information through outreach materials and in-person events. Projects range from the installation of signage at boat launches to boat and trailer
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Green landscaping will prevent polluted run off from the Richard and Theresa Barch Center for Freshwater Research and Education building soon to be built along the St. Marys River. Image: SmithGroup
By Taylor Haelterman
High school students, community groups and Lake Superior State University will use landscaping this summer to reduce pollution flowing into the St. Marys River.
The project recently received $250,000 from the United States Forest Service as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program that protects Great Lakes drinking water and habitat.
Stormwater carries things like trash and bacteria from the city, through the drainage systems and into the river, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Landscaping, also known as green infrastructure in this context, reduces or treats stormwater runoff on its way to a river or lake.
Photo provided by the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
Ford House study could lead to a raft of natural shoreline improvements
Softer, more natural shoreline changes to Ford Cove would create better habitat for creatures like turtles to rear their young.
Photo provided by the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
A study this spring will determine what types of improvements might be made to Ford Cove to make it more welcoming to a range of birds, fish and other wildlife.
Photo provided by the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
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GROSSE POINTE SHORES/ST. CLAIR SHORES A feasibility study this spring at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House could lead to a more natural restoration of the shoreline.
February 3, 2021
Trees are seen by the private sector as an attractive and accessible offset, easy to measure, easy to invest in and easy to promote. Photo by Jacob Lund on Shutterstock.
If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low-priority issues the next. In 2020 all sectors business, government and NGO saw their best laid plans unravel or become irrelevant in the global chaos of the pandemic.
As we look to 2021, it might be foolish to make predictions since the world is still an uncertain place. But five key issues taking center stage in 2021 give cause for modest hope and provide signals for businesses looking to advance biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration in the new year.