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
Lake Huron
Basin Update - U.S.Side
An Open Letter to Grassroots Advocates in the Saginaw Bay area,
Re-printed above is an editorial by the Bay City Times about the
state of citizen involvement in the Public Advisory Committee
(known locally as the Partnership for the Saginaw Bay Watershed)
for the Saginaw River/Bay Area of Concern.
Put simply – they need your help!
The Saginaw Bay could be so much more of an asset to the region.
Instead it’s getting by on life support.
The Partnership for the Saginaw Bay Watershed has done some
great work already. In 2000 they published Measures of Success a
guidebook that greatly informed the State of Michigan’s efforts to
develop criteria for taking the state’s 14 polluted areas off the
Areas of Concern list.
But they can’t move onto the next critical stage of actually tackling
the issues comprehensively without full community support.
As the Lake Advisor for the U.S. portion of the Lake Huron basin, I
pledge to help the Partnership benefit from the GLAHNF network
by facilitating information sharing from similar groups in other
Areas of Concern, like Waukegon Harbor.
If you’d like to get more involved please contact the Michigan DEQ
liaison to the Partnership, Michelle Selzer at (517) 241-3731.
Sincerely,
Chris Grubb, GLAHNF Lake Huron Lake Advisor - U.S. Side
PH: 734-769-3351 • E-mail: grubbc@nwf.org
Website:www.nwf.org/greatlakes www.restorethelakes.org
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