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Apostle
Islands
Apostle area
named for ex-governor Nelson
A remote and beautiful corner of Wisconsin has a new name.
Wisconsin became home to a new wilderness area named after a state
conservation giant when President Bush signed the budget bill containing the
provision earlier this month.
The legislation called for designating 33,500 acres of the 69,372-acre
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore the Gaylord A. Nelson National
Wilderness.
The significance of the formal designation as a wilderness area is to
permanently protect the land. Motorized vehicles such as snowmobiles and
all-terrain vehicles are already banned. The designation makes those
prohibitions permanent.
It does not affect any of the water in Lake Superior surrounding the islands,
allowing boaters to still use the area.
Nelson, a former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator, is perhaps best known
as the founder of Earth Day.
Read
the complete article in
the Chippewa Herald
Lake Superior Alliance recognizes Ashland mayor
Fred Schnook
Lake Superior Waterkeeper Bob Olsgard and Lake Superior Alliance President Mike
Gardner presented Ashland Mayor Fred Schnook the Alliance's award of merit at
the Lake Superior Alliance meeting recently held in Ashland.
"If we can judge by the recent past, there are great things on the horizon,"
said Lake Superior Waterkeeper Bob Olsgard. "Fred's leadership as mayor has
changed fostered a new way of looking at the Lake and the land and the economy,
one that places the the beauty and health of Chequamegon Bay and Lake Superior
as top priorities," added Olsgard.
The Alliance award recognizes the Mayor's
"outstanding contribution to the protection and restoration of Lake Superior."
See
Article in Ashland Daily
Press
Guide helps bird watchers learn
‘Birds of Wisconsin’
“What is that bird?” is a question most of us have asked more than once.
The answer comes neatly packaged in the second edition of “Birds of
Wisconsin,” a pocket-sized, combination field guide and audio CD set by Stan
Tekiela, a naturalist, author and wildlife photographer.
Uncommonly functional and beautifully illustrated, the 274-page booklet is
meant to be kept close at hand. It provides an opportunity to read about a bird
and quickly switch to the CD track number at the bottom of the page to hear its
song or to wait and enjoy the musical accompaniment at a quiet moment later. “Birds of Wisconsin” is available in local bookstores for $12.95 for the book
and $14.95 for the CD or $29.95 for the set, which includes a leather carrying
case for both items.
It also is available direct from the publisher, Adventure Publications, 820
Cleveland St. S., Cambridge MN 55008, phone 800-678-7006 for an additional fee
of $2 for shipping and handling.
For
more information
See
the article in Wisconsin
Outdoors
Environment? Ho hum
"We are at a moment in history when most Americans no longer care about
environmental matters, even when they say otherwise.
If we truly cared about our waters, we'd be alarmed that virtually every boat
landing on every lake in most of Wisconsin is marked by a sign with information
about fish consumption advisories. Instead, the big issue along many of these
bodies of water is property rights. Although these waters belong to the public,
those who wish to protect them are seen as the devil."
Read
the commentary by Bill Berry
on the public's apathy toward
the environment in The Capital
Times:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=22584&ntpid=2
2005 Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program
Application
deadline: January 14, 2005
Anheuser-Busch and the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation are seeking applications for the 2005
Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program. This competitive scholarship
program supports and promotes innovative research or study that seeks to respond
to today’s most pressing conservation issues. The Conservation Scholarship
Program is designed to respond to many of the most significant challenges in
fish, wildlife and plant conservation in the United States, whether it is the
sustainable use of natural resources, including sportfish and game, recovery of
an endangered species or control of invasive exotic species, by providing
scholarships to eligible graduate and undergraduate students who are poised to
make a significant contribution to the field of conservation. Under the 2005
Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program, a minimum of 10 scholarships of
up to $10,000 each will be awarded to cover students’ expenses for tuition,
fees, books, room and board and other direct expenses related to their studies.
The complete application package must be submitted to the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation and be postmarked no later than Jan. 14, 2005.
For more
information, please visit www.nfwf.org/budscholarship/index.htm.
From
Know Your Watershed <taylor@ctic.purdue.edu>
FishAmerica Announces: $600,000 Available for Marine and
Anadromous Fish Habitat Restoration
Grant Application Deadline February 25,
2005
The FishAmerica Foundation and the NOAA Restoration Center announce the
availability of up to $600,000 for hands-on, grassroots projects across the
coastal United States to restore marine, estuarine and riparian habitats,
including salt marshes, mangrove forests, and freshwater habitats important to
anadromous fish species. The partnership will seek an increased number of
projects from the Chesapeake Bay watershed and may provide limited funding for
salmon and/or steelhead habitat restoration projects in the Great Lakes basin.Visit FishAmerica's web site at http://www.fishamerica.org for the complete
announcement, funding guidelines and application.
Also
See
article in GLED
BASIN BRIEFS - December 15, 2004
From
Todd Ambs
Administrator-Division of Water
Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
Todd.Ambs@dnr.state.wi.us
Table
of Contents
Read
the December 15 issue of
Basin Briefs
Participants
needed for the 2005
Wisconsin Groundwater Festival
From: "Lisa Goodman"
<goodman@wisconsinrivers.org>
The festival will be a one-day event on Friday,
April 15, 2005
from 9am-3:30pm at the Eau Claire
County Expo Center.
Jean Schomisch, Land
Conservationist with Eau Claire
County, has agreed to be the local
coordinator and
Rory Olson, Chippewa Falls Water Utility,
has agreed to
be Jean's "3rd & 4th hands".
Planning committee members
and other volunteers
are
needed. For more information
see
http://www.wsn.org/groundwater_festival_05.html
Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
(WDNR)
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