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Lake Erie resources
Lake Erie is both a global treasure and the local reservoir
of our environmental sins. It's the thing we need to protect, but we still
don't appreciate it the way we should. The lake does have many advocates,
however. Here are some of the groups and planning processes focusing on
the lake.
- Council of Great Lakes
Governors.
- Environment
Canada.
- Great Lakes Commission.
- Great Lakes
Information Network.
- Great Lakes National
Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Great Lakes United.
A binational citizens organization working to protect the Great Lakes/St.
Lawrence River ecosystem.
- International Joint
Commission. The U.S./Canadian agency which monitors boundary issues
between the two nations, with a special focus on Great Lakes water quality
and lake levels.
- Lake
Erie Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP). Part of a broad-based U.S./Canadian
program to set objectives for the lake.
- National
Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Natural Resource Center.
- Ohio Coastal
Management Program, Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
- Ohio Coastal Resource Management Project, PO Box 3160, Kent, OH 44240
(330-673-1193). Citizens group advocating wise use of Lake Erie coastal
resources.
- Ohio Lake
Erie Office. Coordinates the state's Lake Erie programs and administers
the Lake Erie Protection Fund, which supports research and programs
to protect and restore the lake.
- Ohio
Sea Grant. Promotes promote research and public education about
Lake Erie resources.
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