Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Author: J. Alfredo Gomez

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-19

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781457870095

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The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) seeks to address issues such as water quality contamination and nonnative, or "invasive," species that threaten the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. A Task Force of 11 federal agencies, chaired by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, oversees the GLRI. Task Force agencies conduct work themselves or through agreements with nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, or other entities. This report examines the (1) amount of federal funds made available for the GLRI and expended for projects; (2) process the Task Force used to identify GLRI work and funding; and (3) information available about GLRI project activities and results. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Author: Óskar Strobel

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781631175251

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The Great Lakes ecosystem is recognised by many as an international natural resource that has been altered by human activities and climate variability. These alterations have led to degraded water quality, diminished habitat, lower native fish and wildlife populations, and an altered ecosystem. In response, the federal governments of the United States and Canada and the state and provincial governments in the Great Lakes basin are implementing several restoration activities. These activities range from mitigating the harmful effects of toxic substances in lake waters to restoring fish habitat. This books provides the reader with a background on and issues of the Great Lakes restoration initiative, as well as the action plan for the years 2010-2014.

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-04

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781974182312

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" The Great Lakes contain about 84 percent of North America's surface freshwater and provide economic and recreational benefits in the Great Lakes Basin. However, the Great Lakes face significant stresses-such as toxic pollution-that have caused ecological and economic damage to the region. Approximately $1.3 billion has been appropriated to the GLRI, created in fiscal year 2010, which an interagency Task Force of 11 federal agencies, chaired by the EPA Administrator, oversees. In 2010, the Task Force issued an Action Plan for fiscal years 2010 to 2014 to develop a comprehensive approach to restoring the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. GAO was asked to review the GLRI. This report examines (1) how the GLRI is implemented by the Task Force agencies and other stakeholders, (2) the methods that EPA has in place to assess GLRI progress, (3) the progress identified by the Task Force agencies and nonfederal stakeholders, and (4) the views of nonfederal stakeholders on factors, if any, that may affect or limit GLRI progress. GAO analyzed the Action Plan, surveyed 205 non-federal recipients of GLRI funding, and interviewed Task Force agency officials and nonfederal stakeholders. "

The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes
The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes

Author: Lynne Heasley

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2021-08-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1628954493

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2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE—In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial history, remains wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies. With dazzling illustrations from Glenn Wolff, the book helps us know the Great Lakes in new ways and grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth. Suffused with curiosity, empathy, and wit, The Accidental Reef will not fail to astonish and inspire.

The Best Part of Us
The Best Part of Us

Author: Sally Cole-Misch

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1631527428

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2021 15th Annual Indie Excellence Juror's Choice Award Winner “The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch is a lush debut novel which explores nature, family, and land with nuance and patience.” —Affinity Magazine Beth cherished her childhood summers on a pristine northern Canadian lake, where she reveled in the sweet smell of dew on early morning hikes, the loons’ evening trills across the lake’s many bays, every brush stroke of her brother’s paintings celebrating their cherished place, and their grandfather’s laughter as he welcomed neighbors to their annual Welsh harvest celebration. Theirs was an unshakeable bond with nature, family, and friends, renewed every summer on their island of granite and pines. But that bond was threatened and then torn apart, first as rights to their island were questioned and then by nature itself, and the family was forced to leave. Fourteen years later, Beth has created a new life in urban Chicago. There, she’s erected a solid barrier between the past and present, no matter how much it costs—until her grandfather asks her to return to the island to determine its fate. Will she choose to preserve who she has become, or risk everything to discover if what was lost still remains? The Best Part of Us will immerse readers in a breathtaking natural world, a fresh perspective on loyalty, and an exquisite ode to the essential roles that family, nature, and place hold in all of our lives.

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781718973732

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Some Information on Projects and Progress Made Available to Congress and the Public

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

Author: Dorceta E. Taylor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2016-08-04

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0822373971

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In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781981271528

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The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative : a review of the progress and challenges in restoring the Great Lakes : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, September 30, 2015.

Climate Ghosts
Climate Ghosts

Author: Nancy Langston

Publisher: Mandel Lectures in the Hum

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781684580644

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Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three "ghost species" in the Great Lakes watershed--woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a particular area. Their traces are still present, whether in DNA, in small fragmented populations, in lone individuals roaming a desolate landscape in search of a mate. We can still restore them if we make the hard choices necessary for them to survive. In this meticulously researched book, Langston delves into how climate change and human impact affected these now ghost species. Climate Ghosts covers one of the key issues of our time.