Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News
The Newsletter of the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News is the newsletter of the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund, published five times per year. The News is intended to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas among citizens and organizations working to protect aquatic habitats in the Great Lakes Basin.
Volume 14, Number 3 • Summer 2006
Director's Notes: Great Lakes Stormwater
by Jill Ryan
This issue of
the Great Lakes
Aquatic Habitat
News focuses on
several pieces of
legislation that
have been passed,
as well as several
local efforts to ensure appropriate
implementation of existing laws. By
working both at the policy level –
helping to create laws and regulations
that are protective of our lakes, rivers
and wetlands, and at the community
level – ensuring that proposed projects
meet the requirements of our laws and
regulations, our efforts are maximized.
You may ask how you can get involved
at the regional or national level if you
are spending so much of your valuable
time working on a project in your
community. We hope to help you with
that. By utilizing electronic tools such
as e-mail alerts and action alerts on our
website, we will be bringing you
important information about regional
and national policy initiatives that may
impact your local community. Our goal
is to provide you with occasional
information about the most pressing
issues that may impact your local work
and how you can have your voice heard.
By working together in this way, we can
minimize the time each of us has to
spend deciding which policy efforts will
impact each community project and
maximize our collective voice. I hope
you will keep an eye open for these
alerts from GLAHNF and let us know
what you think of this service.
Individually,we are one drop.
Together,we are an ocean.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
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