U.S. EPA announced grants totaling $1.85 million toward restoration efforts in the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern on Lake Michigan and the Saint Louis River Estuary AOC in Lake Superior.

After an eventful summer, the piping plover chicks that hatched at Montrose Beach in Chicago have headed south for the winter.

Pennsylvania 2019 GLRI Success Story: The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is working with the Headwaters Resource Conservation & Development Council through a cooperative agreement to establish a demonstration farm network in the Upper Genesee River Watershed of Pennsylvania. Conservation practices implemented as part of this demonstration farm network help to reduce nutrient runoff from agriculture.