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Multiple partners and funding sources came together to complete a large and complex project at sites in Kingsbury Bay and Grassy Point in the St. Louis River Area of Concern. The project is expected to restore open water, coastal wetland, and shallow sheltered bay habitat.

Scientists will analyze Lake Superior sediment collected in Sept. 2021 to track spatial and temporal distributions of contaminants in sediment in the lake.

Kenosha County, WI, celebrated the completion of the riverbank stabilization portion of the Pike River Phase II Restoration project with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The project will improve habitat and water quality of the Pike River and surrounding areas.

The Great Lakes Commission will award over $1.5 million in grants to reduce runoff of sediment, nutrients and other pollutants into the Great Lakes through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has mapped bird and bat activity in the Great Lakes basin with avian and acoustic monitors. Attend the November 4 webinar!

The USDA Forest Service awards over $5.5 million in grants to support 47 Great Lakes restoration projects in Great Lakes states.

Matt Winker’s Red Line Dairy farm in Belgium, Wisc., has developed a nutrient management plan and implemented soil health practices to ensure stewardship of the Great Lakes, sustainability of the soil and the farm’s economic viability.

The Boerst farm in Manawa, WI implements, soil health and conservation practices to improve their land and, with a “chaos garden” helps feed their community.

A collaboration to restore wetland and connect Powderhorn Lake and Wolf Lake begins the work necessary to create more than 100 acres of wetland and reduce flooding.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District awards contract for additional improvements to Stanford Run watershed in Cuyahoga Valley National Park