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

The cleanup of the former Zephyr Oil Refinery in Muskegon Lake Area of Concern is taking us one step closer to clean, healthy, usable habitat for fish, wildlife, and people. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Michigan completed a sediment cleanup of wetlands contaminated with lead and petroleum hydrocarbons.

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.