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Please explore our site to learn more about us and how we and the other regional associations and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies work together to conserve our precious fish and wildlife resources. Our mission is to provide a forum for state and provincial fish and wildlife agencies to share ideas and information, pool resources, and initiate action to benefit the management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources in the Midwest.
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Lake Superior, a Huge Natural Climate Change Gauge, Is Running a Fever
By DINA FINE MARON of ClimateWire
Published: July 19, 2010
The Great Lakes are feeling the heat from climate change.
From ClimateWire
As the world's largest freshwater system warms, it is poised to systematically alter life for local wildlife and the tribes that depend on it, according to regional experts. And the warming could also provide a glimpse of what is happening on a more global level, they say.
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Wisconsin, 4 other states sue Chicago water district over carp
By Dan Egan of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: July 19, 2010 11:26 a.m. |(29) Comments
Great Lakes, Great Peril
Special Section: This series will periodically examine challenges facing the Great Lakes in what experts forecast will be the century of water.
Wisconsin and four other Great Lakes states filed a lawsuit Monday against the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to force changes on the Chicago River to halt the advance of the Asian carp into Lake Michigan.
The federal suit, which also names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a defendant, asks the court to immediately order shut two lakeside navigation locks except in emergency situations, such as big storms when the locks are opened as a safety valve to prevent flooding in the Chicago area.
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Asian carp off to China
Fish are unwanted here but seen as a delicacy overseas
By Dan Egan of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: July 13, 2010 |(46) Comments
Great Lakes, Great Peril
Special Section: This series will periodically examine challenges facing the Great Lakes in what experts forecast will be the century of water.
With Asian carp on the march toward Lake Michigan, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a plan to attack the invaders from the rear - with help from Chinese businessmen.
Quinn announced on Tuesday a $2 million program to boost commercial fishing for the jumbo carp on stretches of the Illinois River, and then pack those fish on ice, ship them across the Pacific Ocean and peddle them in China.
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Indiana wetlands plan is called 'amazing'
By Bill Ruthhart
Posted: June 11, 2010
Gov. Mitch Daniels on Thursday unveiled the state's most aggressive conservation initiative in recent history, promising to preserve thousands of acres of wetlands in two areas.
Daniels said the state would try to acquire 43,000 acres in the flood plain of a 94-mile stretch of the Wabash River from Shades State Park south of Crawfordsville to Fairbanks Landing Fish & Wildlife Area south of Terre Haute.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Conservation cutbacks force states to pass on buyers' market
By David Harrison, Stateline Staff Writer |
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Photo courtesy of Florida State Parks
Florida acquired almost 64,000 acres of the Fakahatchee Strand swampland and turned it into a state preserve, thanks in part to the Florida Forever program. The land conservation program once received $300 million in annual state funding, but has been whittled down to just $15 million this year. |
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Not long ago, when new subdivisions and strip malls were mushrooming across Florida, conservationists could pin their hopes on a state program that bought and preserved parcels of land before the bulldozers got to them. The Florida Forever initiative, begun in 2001, received roughly $300 million a year in state funding, which allowed Florida to buy more than 652,000 acres and preserve habitat for hundreds of endangered species.
A lot has changed since then.
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