Wisconsin Green Tier Legacy Communities

What is Wisconsin’s Green Tier Legacy Communities program, and why should we want to know?

Green Tier Legacy Communities is a forward-looking, cost-saving approach to good environmental management and sustainability, offered by Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources since 2010. Egg Harbor, Ephraim, the Town of Gibraltar and Door County are all Green Tier participants. Other county communities are exploring the program’s advantages with a view to signing up…

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Friends Coastal Community Stewardship

Crescent Beach is the treasured City of Algoma park located on the shores of Lake Michigan. Since joining LNRP as a watershed partner in 2015, Friends of Crescent Beach (FOCB) has taken an action-oriented approach to augmenting the city’s efforts to protect and improve this important community asset. The group is proud of the broad coalition of community support they have built through the years…

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Coastal Resiliency Update — Winter 2021

In late 2019, LNRP proudly launched an innovative and collaborative Coastal Resiliency with secured funding from the US Forest Service (USFS) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Climate Adaptation Fund. LNRP subsequently secured a Phase Two grant in late 2020 from the USFS with additional funding from the Fund for Lake Michigan…

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Looking Forward to 2021 (and beyond!)…

Our LNRP Team has been hard at work these past few months, as this quarterly newsletter illustrates. Since our Spring newsletter in April, we’ve advanced several project and programming efforts; celebrated several grant awards and a successful “Giving Tuesday Now” appeal; provided support for partner-led online events; and actively connected and communicated with our stakeholders and supporters via weekly “Virtual Happy Hour” engagements…

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Elevating Wisconsin's Niagara Escarpment

The Niagara Escarpment Resource Network (NERN) has been hard at work over the past 18 months to renew and re-invigorate its decades-long effort to build awareness and increase stewardship of this globally unique geologic resource. Formed in 1998, NERN joined LNRP’s efforts in 2010 to expand its ability to implement its mission and achieve its overall vision of a protected Niagara Escarpment corridor that provides economic, social, and environmental values for generations to come.

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Coastal Resiliency: EAB Mitigation and Coastal Infiltration with Trees

LNRP has captured the effort by using drone video to showcase the work and create a tool for long-term management. The Forest Service and Climate Adaptation Fund grants are designed to mitigate the impacts of emerald ash borer and create climate resilient coastal habitats. Project sites include coastal wetlands and forests, cold-water trout streams, riverine habitats, bluff lands, and Lake Michigan shoreline. Each project site is a publicly held property with a group of engaged stakeholders including a local unit of government, funding agencies, and an LNRP partner group.

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Sheboygan Ash Tree Replacement Program Begins Saturday

SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) – When your fall color tour of Sheboygan County reveals large swaths of already-bare trees, then you’re likely not seeing signs of early autumn, but the work of the Emerald Ash Borer, a small beetle which kills ash trees in a few short years when the larvae eat the tree’s sap-carrying tissue beneath the bark…

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CCCDC Founders Recognized as Champions of Conservation

The Lake Michigan Stakeholders (LMS) organization has named Dick and Mary Smythe Champions of Conservation – a recognition that honors outstanding environmental achievements in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan basin to restore, improve or enhance Lake Michigan or any of the watersheds that flow into it…

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Lake Michigan Day summit addresses high water levels, climate change, and more

MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- It's one of the largest bodies of water on the planet. Lake Michigan is part of the Great Lakes, a vital water system for the region, the country and beyond. Environmental challenges and success were highlighted at the 7th annual lake Michigan Day summit…

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Words from the Executive Director

Our LNRP Team has been hard at work these past few months, as this quarterly newsletter illustrates. Since our Spring newsletter in April, we’ve advanced several project and programming efforts; celebrated several grant awards and a successful “Giving Tuesday Now” appeal; provided support for partner-led online events; and actively connected and communicated with our stakeholders and supporters via weekly “Virtual Happy Hour” engagements…

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Centerville Creek Restoration

One long-term project that was initiated in 2008 focused on a partnership with the Village of Cleveland and repairing the abandoned millpond created by the removal of the dam that powered the grist mill in 1996.

The first phase of the Centerville Creek Restoration Project was completed through the development of several key partnerships…

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Champions of Conservation Awarded by Lake Michigan Stakeholders

This year's Champions of Conservation include a lifetime achievement award and four additional champions spanning a wide range of areas including a public education institution, a watershed group, a media reporter, and a group working on mitigating the impact of climate change.

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