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
Resources
Lakewide Management Plans (LaMPs)
released for all five Great Lakes
These comprehensive, binational environmental plans
provide lake-by-lake details on the steps needed to ensure
protection, restoration and environmental maintenance of
Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. They
highlight successes, identify problems, and propose solutions.
The LaMPs may be found on EPA’s web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/gl2000/lamps/index.html
Design Your Own Media Workshop
The Community Media Workshop offers specialized private
workshops on media literacy for grassroots organizations.
They will help create and conduct an ‘affordably priced’
workshop that catered to your group. CMW, ‘Connecting the
Community with Media, the Workshop promotes news that
Matters,’ has worked with coalitions as different as
the Statewide Housing Action Coalition, Chicago Foundation
for Women, and the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation.
From spokesperson training, to strategic communications
planning, they say:‘we can give you the training you need.’
To learn more, visit http://www.newstips.org/index.php.
Science in Your Watershed
A project of the United States Geological Survey,“the purpose
of this site is to help you find scientific information organized
on a watershed basis. This information, coupled with
observations and measurements made by the watershed
groups, provides a powerful foundation for characterizing,
assessing, analyzing, and maintaining the status and health
of a watershed.” This web site provides access to: ‘Map Your
Watershed’ tools, “Information Discovery” tools and “Data
Integration” tools. Check out:
http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/reg/04.html we_are_doing/1058
Free EPA Watershed Training Opportunities Booklet
The booklet provides brief information on EPA-sponsored live
training courses,Web-based training opportunities including
webcasts, training materials such as documents and videos,
and watershed-related web sites that are available to EPA
staff and others.This booklet updates an earlier version of the
booklet also called EPA Watershed Training Opportunities.
Call the National Service Center for Environmental
Publications (NSCEP) at: 800-490-9198 or 513-489-8190
(please include the document number when you request
copies- EPA 841-B-06-001) to request your free copy. The
booklet is also available on the Watershed Academy Web site
at:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/wacademy/
wtopps.html.
Free Web Help
Grassroots.org provides, in addition to free nonprofit
incorporation assistance, various forms of technological
assistance, including free web design services, and web
hosting, to nonprofit organizations charities in the US and
Canada.
Visit www.grassroots.org.
New Environmentally Friendly Email Service Available
CommunityMail.net, a ThinkHost socially responsible project,
is a free email service powered by wind and solar-sourced
energy. CommunityMail offers a wide range of features
including shareable address books, calendars, and
user-friendly interfaces. Visit the website listed above to find
out how to sign up for this environmentally friendly e-mail
service.
Visit http://www.communitymail.net/.
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