"Making
It Happen!"
Success stories
from the field.
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From the Director...
Mission:
The mission of the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network
and Fund (GLAHNF) is to empower citizens to take action
at the community level to protect and restore wetlands,
shorelines, rivers, lakes, and other aquatic habitats
throughout the Great Lakes Basin. Thousands of grassroots
initiatives are working locally to preserve these important
aquatic habitats. Recognizing that citizens and grassroots
citizen groups play an indispensable role in environmental
protection in the United States and Canada, GLAHNF provides
consultation and financial resources, shares information,
and fosters communication between citizens and organizations
working to protect aquatic habitats.
Outcomes:
Outcomes of this program have been many. These outcomes
have included both direct and indirect results for the
benefit of aquatic habitats. Accomplishments that have
directly benefited aquatic habitats include: stopping
threatening developments (i.e., golf course, bridge),
limiting riparian herbicide spraying, restoring wetlands
and riverbanks, protecting thousands of acres of sensitive
wetlands with conservation easements, initiating local
wetland protection and conservation ordinances, protecting
endangered species habitat, promoting brownfield cleanup,
and implementing a national wetland permit project. Accomplishments
that will benefit aquatic habitats indirectly have included:
fostering partnerships and coalitions, raising awareness,
increasing public interest, building organizational capacity,
empowering new citizen leadership, gaining organizational
confidence, raising organizational credibility in the
community, and increasing membership.
How you can benefit from these tools:
In an effort to communicate some of the specific project
results to other groups, citizens, and government leaders
interested in protecting their local habitats, we have
collected the stories that follow from more than 200 projects
that have been funded by GLAHNF over the past 5 years.
These stories are told by the local citizens that worked
diligently to complete projects to benefit their own local
environment. We encourage readers to use this publication
as a tool for your own aquatic habitat protection efforts
by taking the opportunity to network with groups that
have worked on habitats similar to those you are working
on, by borrowing creative project ideas, and by finding
inspiration, the way I do, from knowing there are so many
dedicated, concerned citizens and grassroots groups working
across the Great Lakes Basin to protect these vital resources.
Jill Ryan- Director
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
Success Stories 2003
Archive:
Read 2001's Success Stories
Archive:
Read 2002's Success Stories
Saving
a Prairie and Wetland Complex
Save the Prairie Society-Illinois
Searching
for Bats in an Effort to Save Cedar Creek
ACRES Land Trust-Indiana
Monitoring
Produces Dramatic Results
Mill Creek Volunteer Monitoring Project-Michigan
Building
Coalition on Spirit Mountain
Written with Input from Cathy Podeszwa and Tim Larson
of the Duluth Audubon Society, Nancy Nelson of the Skyline
Planning and Preservation Alliance, and Jennifer Tahtinen
of EAGLE-Minnesota
Members
Provide On-The-Ground Strength
Cayuga Lake Watershed Network-New York
Flexibility,
Collaboration, and Perseverance Save Edison Woods
Firelands Land Conservancy, Friends of Wetlands-Ohio
Groundwater
Victory in Ontario
Grey Association for Better Planning-Ontario
Freddy
the Fish Works to Increase Awareness of Toxic Fish
Lake Erie Allegheny Earth Force-Pennsylvania
Land
Use Forums in Bayfield and Ashland Counties lead to the
Bad River Watershed Association
Bad River Watershed Association-Wisconsin
Archive:
Read 2001's Success Stories
Archive: Read
2002's Success Stories
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