Habitat and Wildlife Protection and Restoration
Specifically, this project is intended to reforest Maumee Bay and Thurston State Parks which have sustained extensive losses of Ash trees due to the Emerald Ash Borer. Damaged trees are being removed at Maumee Bay State Park and 500 replacement trees are needed. At Thurston State Park, 159 trees must be removed due to...
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Specifically, this project will establish riparian buffers and restore/enhance wetland areas along intermittent and perennial streams of the Green Bay west shore in the area of the Pensaukee River watershed that provides spawning and rearing for northern pike.
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Specifically, this project will restore habitat that will result in increased populations of northern pike and increased use of the west shore of Green Bay by waterfowl and other birds, thus moving the area toward delisting the "fish and wildlife population" and "fish and wildlife habitat" beneficial use impairments for the Green Bay/Fox River...
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Specifically, it consists of constructing a 2.5 mile barrier in Lower Green Bay to begin the process of restoring the Cat Island Chain of barrier islands. Three barrier islands will be created over the next 20 years. These islands will protect and enhance 1,400 acres surrounding Duck Creek (a tributary to Green Bay). This...
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Midwest Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Tom Melius, recently announced more than $3.2 million in Federal funding under the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act to support Regional Projects that will expand mass marking capabilities for lake trout and salmon, and protect important habitat surrounding state and federal...
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Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency President Obama has made restoring and protecting the Great Lakes a national priority. To meet the goals we’ve set the President proposed and Congress approved hundreds of millions of dollars for community-based projects to revitalize and protect the Great Lakes. These investments we are making will...
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NOAA’s Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program protects more than 1,600 acres in the Great Lakes The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP) has selected five new projects in the Great Lakes region to be funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The $4.75M funding will help...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its state of Indiana partner agencies have begun work on a two- to three-year undertaking to dredge sediment from a heavily polluted one-mile stretch of the West Branch Grand Calumet River in Hammond. This is a very unique region as it is one of the most industrialized areas in...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pleased to announce the recipients of the Endangered Species Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants!
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership are pleased to announce the approval of over $1 million in grants aimed at supporting on-the-ground fish habitat work in the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).
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