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The Wisconsin Great Lakes Restoration
and Protection Strategy 2006

Lake Superior Basin Partner Team Review and Additions

The Wisconsin Great Lakes Restoration and Protection Strategy will be used to set an agenda for Wisconsin’s work on the Great Lakes and will be used in funding decisions. The existing strategy (2006) is available at http://dnr.wi.gov/org/water/greatlakes/wistrategy/

The Lake Superior Basin Partner Team began to add additional Lake Superior basin information and projects to the Wisconsin strategy at its April 23, 2007 meeting.
Over the summer, John Jereczek, Wisconsin DNR Lake Superior Binational Program Coordinator, has integrated comments and projects submitted by the Partner Team and DNR staff into working drafts that were distributed at the Partner Team’s September 10, 2007 meeting.

The working draft of the strategy (word document) shows additions received to date. Text in Green are DNR comments text in Orange are comments from the Partner Team. Comments and additions should be sent to john.jereczek@wisconsin.gov by October 1, 2007.

The Partner Team Sheets show the project concepts submitted under each of the eight priorities. It also lists the ideas submitted that need to be developed into project concepts or fleshed out before they can be included in the project list. Additional project concepts or detail on the ideas should be sent to john.jereczek@wisconsin.gov by October 1, 2007.

Marengo Watershed Pilot Project

The Marengo River Watershed pilot project is a project of the Lake Superior Public Partner Team. In 1998 the Department of Natural Resources formed the Wisconsin Lake Superior Public Advisory Team ("Partner Team"). Invitation letters from Secretary Meyer went to 45 individuals representing a variety of interests. The charge was to advise the state on Lake Superior Binational Program implementation, including special designations. Members include previous vocal proponents and opponents of special designation options. Sec. Meyer participated in their kick-off meeting. The group started with less divisive issues: mercury reduction and project funding, to develop working relationships. From the start, land use and watershed health emerged as priorities.

The Lake Superior Partnership has a poster on the Lake Superior Bi-National Program that you can download here in pdf format.

The Lake Superior Basin also has a poster on UW-Extension forestry resources that you can download here. The poster includes information about the Woodland Leaders Institute and Masters Woodland Leaders course.

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