Islands are bit like a Noah's Ark for the Great Lakes, helping to preserve birds and other wildlife from mainland predators, development and other pressures. To fortify such protection, federal officials seek a piece of the $475 million Congress is considering for Great Lakes environmental improvement. See GreatLakesEcho.org David Poulson Associate Director Knight Center for Environmental Journalism Michigan State University 517 432 5417 Blog: CoverThePlanet.org Twitter: DPoulson Editor: GreatLakesEcho.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/enviro-mich/attachments/20090729/6aba0c12/attachment.html