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Dredging at the Munger Landing in Duluth, MN is complete, and restoration is underway. The project is part of the St. Louis River Area of Concern effort to remediate contaminated sediment and restore degraded habitat.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced $367,694 in funding for four projects in the inaugural indigenous communities priority under the Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program.

EPA Great Lakes National Program Office scientists Megan O’Brien and Matt Pawlowski were interviewed by reporter Susan Bence for WUWM’s podcast “Lake Effect.” In the interview, O’Brien and Pawlowski give Bence a tour of EPA’s Research Vessel Lake Guardian, explain how various sampling equipment is deployed, and discuss the different types of data collected while the GLNPO Summer Water Quality Survey is underway.

After extensive sediment remediation work, which reduced sediment toxicity to levels that are no longer harmful to bottom-dwelling invertebrates in the river, the Degradation of Benthos BUI has been removed at the Buffalo River AOC.

A father-and-son farming team in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin are demonstrating what conservation practices and welcoming vital pollinators can do for soil health and crop yields.

Through extensive habitat restoration work, modified dredging practices, and implementation of long-term plans to improve wastewater and stormwater management, habitat connectivity and water quality in the Buffalo River Area of Concern AOC have sufficiently improved to remove the Loss of Fish and Wildlife Habitat Beneficial Use Impairment.

Grant applications requested by October 23 for Cooperative Weed Management Areas and Forest Restoration. Informational webinars will be held September 5.

More than 45,000 newly planted trees are providing important ecological benefits in Duluth, Minnesota.

A new report on the GLRI Fox Demo Farms evaluates a pilot mentorship program designed to assist farmers who are transitioning to conservation.

The 2023 Summer Survey marks 40 years of long-term water quality and biological monitoring across the Great Lakes.