Clinic Project Proposal: Lake Huron and Ontario Great Lakes

DESCRIPTION

The North American Great Lakes are a Global Priority for The Nature Conservancy, and the Michigan/Great Lakes Project and other Great Lakes OUs are focusing unprecedented resources on conservation of this unique system. In essence, the primary question is: What steps must we take to safeguard and restore the health of a Great Lake? Confounding our pursuit of answers, the effects of climate change are already being felt in the Great Lakes, yet we are not adequately incorporating those effects into strategy development. Lake Ontario's Lakewide Management Plan and Lake Huron's Bi-national Partnership are notable for their bi-national approaches to this question. We are building upon these two efforts to develop bi-national strategies for conserving and restoring the biological diversity of these two North American Great Lakes. These strategies will integrate the natural resource information and habitat priorities at the scale of whole lake basins and across international borders.

CREATION DATE	April 13, 2009
LAST MODIFIED	April 13, 2009
CREATED BY	Kristin Richards Betz
KEYWORDS	Lake Huron and Ontario Great Lakes; Climate Clinic; project proposal; Estuaries, Lakes and Wetlands
DOCUMENT PURPOSE	Site Profiles
PUBLICATION YEAR	No Publication Year
LICENSE	Attribution Non-Commercial