The Lake Michigan Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) is an action plan for restoring and protecting the Lake Michigan ecosystem. The 2014 annual report highlights accomplishments and progress in achieving LAMP goals and objectives during the past year, and identifies planned LAMP-related activities including outreach, monitoring, and protection and restoration actions. The LAMP is […]

The Lake Ontario Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) is a binational action plan for cooperatively restoring and protecting the Lake Ontario ecosystem. The 2014 annual report highlights accomplishments and progress in achieving LAMP goals and objectives during the past year, and outlines planned LAMP-related activities including outreach, monitoring, and protection and restoration actions. The LAMP is coordinated by the […]

The Lake Superior  Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) is a binational action plan for restoring and protecting the Lake Superior ecosystem. The 2014 annual report highlights accomplishments and progress in achieving LAMP goals and objectives during the past year, and outlines planned LAMP-related activities including outreach, monitoring, and protection and restoration actions. The LAMP is coordinated by the Lake […]

The Lake Huron Binational Partnership was formed in 2002 to coordinate actions to help restore and protect the Lake Huron ecosystem. The 2014 annual report highlights accomplishments and progress towards achieving ecosystem restoration and protection, and outlines planned activities including outreach and monitoring as well as additional protection and restoration actions. The Binational Partnership is led by […]

The Lake Erie Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) is a binational action plan for restoring and protecting the Lake Erie ecosystem. The 2014 annual report highlights accomplishments and progress in achieving LAMP goals and objectives during the past year, and outlines planned LAMP-related activities including outreach, monitoring, and protection and restoration actions. The LAMP […]

The “Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook: Great Lakes Region” is a brief bulletin published jointly by NOAA and Environment Canada summarizing the latest season’s weather and water level conditions and weather and water level-related impacts over the Great Lakes and provides an outlook for the upcoming quarter. It is published roughly four weeks after the […]

The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement requires the United States and Canada to identify Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) that the two countries agree are potentially harmful to the environment or human health as a result of their presence in the waters of the Great Lakes. As a first step to meeting this commitment, […]

The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement requires the United States and Canada to identify Chemicals of Mutual Concern (CMCs) that the two countries agree are potentially harmful to the environment or human health as a result of their presence in the waters of the Great Lakes. As a means to promote stakeholder engagement in […]

The 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which entered into force in February of 2013, includes a commitment to develop and implement lakewide habitat and species protection and restoration conservation strategies by February of 2015. These strategies, developed for each of the Great Lakes, identify priority objectives for habitat and species restoration, protection, and conservation. […]