Earth Day: Sunday,
April 22 www.earthday.org
The Earth Day Network
promotes environmental citizenship and year-round progressive action
worldwide. Find
or schedule an event in your area!
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Wisconsin's Great
Lakes Connection www.greatlakesforever.org/html/wpt
The Madison, Wisconsin-based Biodiversity Project and
Wisconsin Public Television are teaming up for a special series of
broadcasts about Wisconsin's connection to the Great Lakes this
April on Wisconsin Public Television's In Wisconsin, which airs
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Icebreaker
Mackinaw Maritime Museum, Inc. www.icebreakermackinawmuseum.org
The Icebreaker
Mackinaw, following its decommissioning in June 2006, is now
moored at its home in Mackinaw City, Mich. The ship is now operating
as a public
museum telling the story of its 62-year career breaking ice on
the upper Great Lakes.
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Lake Superior
Pathfinders 2007 www.northland.edu/Northland/Soei/ Programs/Pathfinders
Pathfinders
allows high school students to learn about leadership style using
ropes courses and climbing walls, get immersed in the Lake Superior
environment and explore its estuaries, kayak to its sea caves and
investigate the lake's critical issues. The 2007 summer program
offers three sessions in July.
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New
York State Wetlands Forum www.wetlandsforum.org
The New York State Wetlands Forum, Inc. is a
non-advocacy organization comprised of individuals and groups with
diverse backgrounds, interests and viewpoints regarding wetlands and
their science, use and management. The 2007
Annual Meeting will be held April 25-26 in Lake Placid, New
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National Park Week www.nps.gov/npweek
National Park Week, April 22-29, is an
annual Presidentially proclaimed week for celebration and
recognition of our National Parks. Check for events in your area
or participate in March For Parks, an
event held annually as an initiative to celebrate and conserve
local, state, regional and national parks.
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