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["Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com>]

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:31:25 -0400
From: "admin@muskegonriver.org" <admin@muskegonriver.org>
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Subject: GLIN==> Muskegon River Initiative Assessment
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Great Lakes Fishery Trust Announces River Initiative Assessment for 
Muskegon River Watershed, MI
LANSING--The Great Lakes Fishery Trust (GLFT) has funded several fisheries 
research and angler
access projects since it began distributing grants in 1997. The Trust is 
now interested in targeting efforts that
enhance and protect fisheries habitat through development of a strategy 
that ensures projects contribute
measurable habitat improvements for use by Great Lakes fish species. This 
strategy, called the "River
Initiative," will be a model enhancement program focusing on a single 
watershed. The Muskegon River
watershed is the first such river system being considered as the recipient 
of this targeted GLFT program
funding. The strength of the program will rely on the ability of 
stakeholders in a watershed to cooperate and
make maximum use of existing and new funds for the next three to five 
years. Before committing such targeted
funding, the GLFT first will assess the capacity of existing organizations 
and groups within the Muskegon
River watershed to implement such a model program.
The environmental consulting firm of KIESER & ASSOCIATES ( 
http://www.kieser-associates.com ), based in
Kalamazoo, MI, has been retained by the GLFT for this project, the 
"Muskegon River Initiative Assessment."
The firm's task over the next two months is to establish contact with 
groups and individuals in the Muskegon River
watershed to identify the organizational resources, goals, and activities 
of these groups. The firm also will identify future
efforts and ways that these and other groups that have worked in the 
watershed, could contribute toward successful
enhancement of the Muskegon River fishery through the River Initiative. 
Kieser's primary means of collecting information
will be through questionnaires accessible at an independent Internet Web 
site ( http://www.muskegonriver.org ) and subsequent
interviews with representatives from various groups. You may contact the 
firm through this Web site or call
Mark Kieser at (616) 344-7117 to obtain a questionnaire.
The Trust hopes to see broad participation in this assessment to ensure 
that the watershed receives
representative consideration for this significant funding opportunity. Any 
organization, foundation, business,
agency, or advocacy group that directly or indirectly contributes to the 
protection, restoration, and enhancement
of the Muskegon River is encouraged to be a part of this assessment by 
contacting the Web site.
The Great Lakes Fishery Trust is a private foundation established in 1996 
to mitigate for damages to the
Great Lakes fishery caused by the Ludington Pumped Storage Facility. Since 
its inception, the GLFT has
provided government agencies, nonprofit conservation organizations, and 
universities with more than $8.6
million in grants to improve the Great Lakes fishery and the public's use 
and enjoyment of the fishery.
E-mail info@muskegonriver.org for more information. Additional information 
about the Great Lakes
Fishery Trust can be found at http://www.glft.org .


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