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March 2008 Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River proposal for public comment International Joint Commission (IJC) (3/31) The IJC has released for public comment a proposed new Order of Approval and a proposed new plan for regulating the flows through the Moses-Saunders Dam between Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York. Regulation affects water levels and flows in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River downstream to Trois-Rivières. Great Lakes United Survey (3/27) To better understand the needs of coalition members and the broader Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River protection community, Great Lakes United is conducting an online survey. Your responses will better help to meet the needs of the coalition and ensure efforts are effective in protecting the Great Lakes ecosystem. 2008 Great Lakes Student Summit (3/26) The Great Lakes Student Summit (GLSS), is an environmental education program for students in Grades 5-8 from throughout the Great Lakes States and Canada. In May of 2008, in Buffalo, New York, students will make formal presentations to their peers and leading Great Lakes scientists from throughout the basin. Landscape Patterns and Ecosystem Processes (3/24) This 23rd annual symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology will focus on current frontiers in landscape ecology and consider the demand for the scientific underpinnings of landscape planning and management. Great lakes Maps (3/21) This exhibit traces the evolution of mapmaking since the 1600s and the historical influence of the Great Lakes on the history of Wisconsin. The collection features an illustrated, hand-colored map of North America made in 1670, one of the first maps to show all five Great Lakes. Lake Superior national parks and Grand Portage Band of Chippewa approve VHS prevention and response plan U.S. National Park Service (3/19) VHS (viral hemorrhagic septicemia) is a deadly fish virus that was first detected in the lower Great Lakes in 2003 and continues to spread to additional locations each year, but has not yet been found in Lake Superior. Park and tribal fishery biologists believe the virus has significant potential to impact the ecological integrity of fishery resources in these protected areas and recreational fishing opportunities. Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) (3/18) GLUE was developed as a forum for people to exchange stories, ideas, and best practices between otherwise isolated cities ranging from Buffalo to St. Louis to Minneapolis. The GLUE coalition, comprised of young urbanists, was founded to promote the power, aide in the positive transformation, and address the shared challenges of similarly-storied older industrial cities situated in the Great Lakes watershed. Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region Michigan State University (3/17) Following on last spring's symposium, this conference brings together researchers, decision makers, educators, activists and citizens to examine how climate change will affect the Great Lakes region and how we can respond to it. The conference will be a day and a half (full day April 9, half day April 10), and will be held at the Michigan State Union. There is no fee for participants. Coastal Ohio Wind Project Green Energy Ohio and Bowling Green State University (3/11) The Coastal Ohio Wind Project is a research project focused on using technologies to monitor avian interaction within or near an active turbine site. Area residents are invited to attend meetings in March to hear from wind, avian, and economic experts on the subject of wind energy, and share their thoughts. Western Great Lakes Research Conference (3/10) This conference, April 1-2, in Marquette, Mich., provides a forum for information and idea sharing between researchers and managers of national parks and other public lands throughout the Western Great Lakes area. It provides an opportunity for participants to share current research, monitoring, and management issues affecting parks and protected areas. Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge (3/7) U.S. EPA issues this Earth Day Challenge to residents, businesses and community organizations throughout the Great Lakes basin to plan or participate in collection events of e-waste or unwanted medicines during Earth Week April 19 – 27. The Challenge is to collect a million pounds of e-waste for proper management and a million pills of unwanted medicines for responsible disposal during Earth Week. Door County Environmental Council (3/5) Environmental activists in Door County, Wisconsin (Green Bay area) formed the DCEC in 1969. Even then, caring citizens could see looming threats to the their waters, bays, wild shores, bluffs, sand dunes, woodlands, wetlands, farms, orchards and fields. Energy 2100: Making the Lakes Great (3/4) Energy 2100: Making the Lakes Great, April 22-23, in Toronto, marks the first time experts from Canada and the United States will gather to confront an emerging public policy challenge. The challenge is to develop energy policy that sustains the Great Lakes ecosystem and the health of people living within the Great Lakes basin. Greening of the Great Lakes GLIN's March 2008 Site of the Month (3/1) Michigan State University and News/Talk 760 WJR have launched this web site with the goal of providing information and insight into the organizations committed to making the Great Lakes region a leader in environmental practices. With video, podcasts, pictures, graphics and numerous links to other relative sites and news stories, Greening of the Great Lakes is designed to be an entertaining online resource for anyone interested in learning about the Great Lakes region.
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