Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News
The Newsletter of the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
Volume 11, Number 3 • Summer 2003
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat NewsThe Newsletter of the Great Lakes
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August 23 - September 21, 2003,
2003 Coastweeks, Ohio’s Lake Erie
Shore, coordinated by the Ohio
Lake Erie Commission.
Environmental organizations, schools,
libraries, community groups and individuals
throughout the Lake Erie region are encouraged to
plan activities for the 2003 Coastweeks observance.
For more information contact: Jill Woodyard at 419-245-2514,
E-mail: jill_woodyard@ameritech.net, or visit
http://web.epa.state.oh.us/oleo/cw/cw.html.
August 29-30, 2003, Purple Loosestrife Workshop Spooner,WI
A free workshop to share information, pool ideas, and forge
strategies to control this invasive plant. Participants will be
trained in the Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s Purple Loosestrife
Monitoring Program.
For more information contact:Wendy Smith
at 219-926-7561 ext. 349, E-mail: Wendy_W_Smith@nps.gov.
September 7-12, 2003, Temperate Wetland Restoration Training
Course Romulus, MI, Ontario, Canada, held by Trent University
This course offers practical field sessions and classroom
instruction on the principles and techniques of wetland
restoration. The course travels to several stops within southern
and central Ontario to show a variety of wetland types and
methods of restoration.
For more information contact:
Leslie Collins at 705-755-2269, E-mail: lcollins@trentu.ca, or visit
http://www.trentu.ca/wsc/wetlandrestorecourse.shtml.
September 8-11, 2003, 11th National Nonpoint Source Monitoring
Workshop, Dearborn, Mich.
This workshop will share information on the effectiveness of
best management practices in improving water quality, effective
monitoring techniques, and statistical analysis of watershed data.
For more information contact: Tammy Taylor at 765-494-1814,
E-mail: taylor@ctic.purdue.edu, or visit
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/NPSWorkshop/NPSWorkshop.html
September 13-21, 2003, Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup,
Canadian Shorelines, presented by Friends of the
Environment Foundation
Join thousands of volunteers across Canada to clean up river,
stream, lake, and ocean shorelines.
For more information
contact: Lisa Richardson at 416-848-7603,
E-mail: richarl@vanaqua.org, or visit
http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup/