# Project Organization Contact Status Amount
1583 Discovering Place

Board Decision Year: 2015
The Regents of the University of Michigan - U of M - Flint (Flint) Sanker, Leyla ([email protected]) Completed $152,119.00
1582 West Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative

Board Decision Year: 2015
Muskegon Area Intermediate School District - Regional Mathematics and Science Center (Muskegon) Johnson, Erica ([email protected]) Completed $151,768.58
1581 Groundswell Continuation 3

Board Decision Year: 2015
Grand Valley State University - Center For Educational Partnerships (Grand Rapids) Pelon, Clayton ([email protected]) Completed $144,079.04
1580 Upper Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative

Board Decision Year: 2015
Superior Watershed Partnership (Marquette) Hanson, Abbie ([email protected]) Completed $126,098.70
1578 The Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition, GLFT Continuation 4, SEMIS 2015-2017

Board Decision Year: 2015
Eastern Michigan University - Office of Research Development (Ypsilanti) Lowenstein, Ethan ([email protected]) Completed $152,560.00
1577 Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (2015-17 Continuation)

Board Decision Year: 2015
Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan - Northeast Michigan (Alpena) Heraghty, Patrick ([email protected]) Completed $155,968.00
1576 GRAND Learning Network Phase V Continuation

Board Decision Year: 2015
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources - Department of Community Sustainability (E Lansing) Dann, Shari ([email protected]) Completed $154,519.11
1574 Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative

Board Decision Year: 2015
The Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education - Copper Country Intermediate School District (Hancock) Oppliger, Shawn ([email protected]) Completed $155,871.00
1573 Informing Great Lakes connectivity decisions: An enhanced online portal for high-resolution barrier data and species-specific benefit analyses

This project will expand our existing online decision-support tool to enable managers and agencies to assess trade-offs of barrier removals throughout the Great Lakes basin. We will inventory road crossings in the Paint River watershed, and create an index of habitat quality for priority fish species. Our website will enable integration of new barrier data, flexible visualization of species-specific habitat loss due to barriers, and customized analysis of optimal barrier removals for a given budget.

Board Decision Year: 2015
University of Wisconson - Center for Limnology (Madison) McIntyre, Peter ([email protected]) Completed $358,439.71
1570 Song of the Morning Dam Removal-Pigeon River

Great Lakes Fishery Trust provided funding for on-the-ground/ in-the-water costs related to the removal of the Song of the Morning Dam. This project restored natural river processes including hydrology, geomorphology and flow of sediment and woody debris through the system for the first time in over 100 years. Trout and other aquatic organisms gained access to 15 miles of critical spawning and refuge habitat in the upper Pigeon River and its tributaries. 

Board Decision Year: 2015
Huron Pines (Grayling) Ramsdell, Lisha ([email protected]) Completed $45,750.00
1565 Coastal Lake Huron Watersheds Road/Stream Crossing Inventory

Huron Pines completed a comprehensive inventory of all road/stream crossings in fourteen small coastal watersheds draining to Lake Huron. A total of 253 sites were inventoried using the Great Lakes Road/Stream Crossing Inventory Protocol and added to the northernmichiganstreams.org website to enable conservation partners to more efficiently evaluate priority restoration sites.

Board Decision Year: 2015
Huron Pines (Grayling) Leisen, Josh ([email protected]) Completed $16,000.00
1564 Spanning the Jordan River - Chestonia Bridge Project

The Chestonia Bridge project involved 20 partner entities completing the replacement of the Old State Road twin 16’ wide culverts on the Jordan River with a fully spanning 90’ long concrete I-beam bridge. The previous culverts were aging and significantly undersized, thus causing pool formation at the inlet and outlet, embankment erosion, and increasing stream velocities five-fold, which prevented the passage of aquatic life at different life stages and stream flows. The new bridge fully reconnects 48 miles of river and tributaries to the Jordan mainstem and Lake Charlevoix downstream, and restores the natural stream dynamics.  

Board Decision Year: 2015
Conservation Resource Alliance - Grandview Plaza Building (Traverse City) Balke, Kimberly ([email protected]) Completed $100,000.00
1563 Belle Isle Access to Fishing – Boat Club Pier

The purpose of this project was to develop engineering plans and a cost estimate for the renovation/rehabilitation of the Boat Club Pier to improve fishing access at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan.  The scope for design of the project also included parking lot improvements, bridge replacement, lighting, walkway construction and the filling of dilapidated swimming pools to ensure safe access to the pier.  The project officially kicked off in 2015.  The final engineering documents for the pier were developed and delivered to the DNR in December, 2016.  A final cost estimate was also developed to guide future fundraising efforts for implementation of the construction phase of the project.

Board Decision Year: 2012
Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Parks and Recreation Division (Lansing) Lincoln, Matt ([email protected]) Completed $73,160.61
1562 North Branch White River Culvert Removal

The project removed the final (culvert) barrier in the North Branch of the White River. Fifteen river miles were opened, making the North Branch navigable for the first time since the logging era. A timber bridge spanning the bankfull width was installed and the river has returned to its natural channel.

Board Decision Year: 2015
Oceana County Road Commission (Hart) Dutcher, Lisa ([email protected]) Completed $80,000.00
1561 Barrier Removal Decision Support – A User-Driven Collaborative Modeling Suite

Funded in part by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the Barrier Removal Collaborative Suite (BRCS) is a collaborative web platform that contains interactive mapping; standardized and current water, barrier, and invasive species data sets; and mechanisms for users to post comments, preferences, priorities, data, and plans. The platform allows users to share their views on water barriers and tributaries, comment on individual posts, create topics to discuss, and form shared interest groups to collaborate on barriers. The BRCS can also serve as a decision support tool that allows users to draw on the tool’s maps, save their individual project plans, as well as import plans created by other users in the BRCS. The main goal of the tool is to allow stakeholders to work in a cooperative online environment and provide a decision support tool based on the best available data. The project team integrated a survey mechanism into the BRCS that allows users to rank important areas and reach a consensus around those areas. Using data from the survey mechanism, the BRCS creates a grid heat map that shows the amount of agreement or disagreement around a particular area. These areas are designated as “Consensus Levels”. The tool is available for use here: http://brcs.seasketch.org/

Board Decision Year: 2015
Great Lakes Fishery Commission (Ann Arbor) Hrodey, Peter ([email protected]) Completed $150,000.00
1552 Comparison of otolith microchemistry between juvenile steelhead cohabitant resident fish species

Board Decision Year: 2015
Central Michigan University - Department of Biology and Institute for Great Lakes Research (Mt. Pleasant) Pangle, Kevin ([email protected]) Completed $119,268.13
1550 The New Lake Michigan Food Web: Establishing links between nearshore food sources and pelagic piscivores.

Board Decision Year: 2015
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Great Lakes WATER Institute (Milwaukee) Bootsma, Harvey ([email protected]) Completed $264,772.30
1546 Forecasting biological and economic impacts of aquatic invasive species in Lake Michigan

Board Decision Year: 2015
University of Wyoming - Economics and Finance (Laramie) Finnoff, David ([email protected]) Completed $238,018.33
1539 Management unit delineation of lake sturgeon populations based on adaptive genetic diversity

Board Decision Year: 2015
West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown) Welsh, Amy ([email protected]) Completed $193,942.00
1531 Making fish and habitat survey data publicly available to facilitate collaborative management of Great Lakes tributaries

Board Decision Year: 2015
Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Marquette Fisheries Research Station (Marquette) Zorn, Troy ([email protected]) Completed $71,245.00
1517 Classroom With a Current Watershed Education at the Grand Rapids Public Museum

The Grand Rapids Public Museum "Classroom with a Current" program provided an opportunity for thousands of students to experience inquiry-based learning with a focus on the Great Lakes. Programs were designed to provide information that assisted students in becoming (1) active and effective stewards of the Great Lakes and (2) advocates for strategies that support the long-term sustainability of the Great Lakes fisheries. Programming included new museum-based field trip programs, summer camp experiences, an after-school program, and a youth watershed team. The highest level of engagement was through the summer camp experiences and field trip-based programs.

Board Decision Year: 2015
Grand Rapids Public Museum Foundation - Collections & Education (Grand Rapids) Schulz, Gina ([email protected]) Completed $99,980.00
1515 Vernal Pools: Place-based Education and Stewardship

The project is complete. During the grant period, the Vernal Pool Patrol, a statewide citizen science- and place-based vernal pool mapping and monitoring program, was adapted for K-12 educators and students, primarily at the upper elementary, middle and high school levels, to get involved with the program. A total of 18 teachers/educators and over 740 upper elementary, middle, and high school students from 13 different schools across northern Michigan were trained and participated in the Vernal Pool Patrol pilot program between 2015 and 2017. Over 25 community partners also assisted the teachers and students and participated in the pilot program. All the teachers who participated in the program and the evaluation said that they would recommend the program to other teachers. The teachers also said that the students enjoyed and were highly engaged in the program. A web-based platform (i.e., Google form) was developed for students to enter, view, and download their vernal pool monitoring data as well as data collected by students monitoring other vernal pools in the project area. The Vernal Pool Patrol pilot program provided additional information on vernal pools and increased our knowledge and understanding of their status, distribution, and ecology in Michigan. At least 20 new vernal pools were identified, mapped, and monitored by the educators and students. Fairy shrimp, which only live in vernal pools, was found by the students in at least eight of the vernal pools that were monitored, including perhaps the first documentation of fairy shrimp in a wooded dune and swale natural community. The program resulted in significant increases in awareness and understanding of vernal pools and an increase in attitudes towards stewardship. It resulted in new collaborations with a number of teachers, students, and community partners, including the GLSI, and stronger and expanded existing partnerships for MNFI in the project area.

Board Decision Year: 2015
Michigan State University Extension - Michigan Natural Features Inventory (Lansing) Lee, Yu Man ([email protected]) Completed $90,000.00
1514 Tip of the Mitt Watershed Academy

The Watershed Academy engaged and supported students from Northern Michigan high schools in water quality monitoring experiences. Students were provided with tools and knowledge to collect water quality data and assess stream health in the local watershed to foster an attitude of stewardship. Watershed Academy students worked in small groups to become experts and share their findings with classmates, school and community. Data collected at stream sites was entered into a database used to inform and prepare communities to tackle tough management issues such as invasive species management, habitat restoration and water quality in the future.

Board Decision Year: 2015
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council (Petoskey) Buchanan, Jennifer ([email protected]) Completed $39,950.00
1508 Conducting a Condition Assessment of Nearshore Fish Habitat in the Great Lakes Basin

This proposal included the three following tasks: A) Compile and summarize appropriate and available datasets; B) Identify the classification framework to be used and develop fish habitat classification; and C) Conduct Nearshore and Coastal Habitat Condition Assessment. The research team decided to divide the assessment into two parts, a Coastal and a Nearshore Assessment, in part due to the different types of data that were available and in part due to data availability and sharing constraints. The two assessments are conducted on different parts of the coastal and nearshore zones: Coastal includes habitat from 0-3 m deep and the Nearshore extends from 3 to 30 m deep (15 m in Lake Erie). The two teams coordinated throughout the project and identified a broad assessment approach that both teams followed (Fig. 1); however, due to different spatial scales and data types, the teams used zone-specific analytical approaches and fish metrics. In general, we also agreed that abundance data were preferred if possible. 

Board Decision Year: 2014
The Regents of the University of Michigan - School of Natural Resources and Environment (Ann Arbor) Riseng, Catherine ([email protected]) Completed $216,603.07
1501 Growing and Sustaining Great Lakes Restoration Successes

The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes (HOW) Coalition is improving the health of the Great Lakes through their project “Growing and Sustaining Great Lakes Restoration Successes” which addresses historic threats to the Lakes through on the ground restoration work. The project will provide capacity building grants to local and state non-profit organizations in eight priority areas across the Great Lakes region to help them successfully implement restoration projects through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)

Board Decision Year: 2014
National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Office (Ann Arbor) Hill, Jennifer ([email protected]) Completed $99,999.60
1500 Restoring the Natural Divide: Technical Support to Develop a Long-Term Solution for Preventing the Movement of Aquatic Invasive Species in the Chicago Area Waterway System

The project will support the Chicago Area Waterway System Advisory Committee in evaluating technical issues necessary to reach consensus on a long-term solution for preventing the movement of Asian carp and other aquatic invasive species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. The committee is working to reach consensus on a solution to this challenge and requires support from technical experts to evaluate issues related to water quality, flooding, transportation and AIS risk reduction. 

Board Decision Year: 2014
Great Lakes Commission (Ann Arbor) Doss, Matt ([email protected]) Completed $250,000.00
1498 Student 2 Steward

The Goundswell Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative Hub developed and implemented a web-based application to guide and assist educators through the process of high-quality place-based education knowledge acquisition. The application, Student 2 Steward is located at www.student2steward.com.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Grand Valley State University - Center For Educational Partnerships (Grand Rapids) Clift, Forrest ([email protected]) Completed $71,441.00
1497 Stream and Wetland Restoration in Ulao Creek – Milwaukee Estuary AOC

Ozaukee County completed a large-scale habitat restoration project on Ulao Creek, which is a tributary to the Milwaukee River. The project team restored multiple stream reaches for maximum ecological productivity by remeandering 1,769 feet of stream channel, reconnecting 140 acres of 100 year floodplains and 14.3 acres of wetlands, as well as installing fish habitat structures.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Ozaukee County - Planning and Parks Department (Port Washington) Aho, Matt ([email protected]) Completed $154,923.00
1490 Pucker Street Dam Removal

This project will remove the Pucker Street dam, the most significant impairment affecting aquatic species connectivity and sediment transport on the Dowagiac River in southwest Michigan. The project will result in improved and safer access for fishing and also reconnect over 159 miles of the Dowagiac River system and 11,000 acres of wetlands to the St. Joseph River. Several fish species will benefit including salmon, steelhead, walleye, smallmouth bass and suckers.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Niles City (Niles) Hamilton, Marcy ([email protected]) Completed $400,000.00
1488 Advancing Great Lakes Science and Management by Fleet Modernization and Standardization

The GLFT granted the DNR $500,000 dollars to replace the R/V Chinook that operates on Lake Huron. A new vessel will ensure continuation of long-term monitoring efforts, increase vessel efficiency, and improve surveys for inter-lake comparisons. The vessel will collaborate with other state, federal, tribal, and provincial partner agencies on predator and prey fish stock assessments. GLFT partnership with the DNR in this venture will help to ensure the continued health of a muti-species fishery worth an estimated $74 million annually. 

The final report for this project will become available after grant is officially completed in 2017.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Lansing) Herbst, Seth ([email protected]) Completed $500,000.00
1480 2014 Discovering Place GLSI Incentive Grant - Next Generation Strategy

The GLFT has granted funding for a pilot project to support the development of next generation teachers and schools to advance PBE through scholarship, cross-curricular connections, and exploration of best practices for PBE in teacher training (hereby referred to as “the Next Generation strategy”). Through development of instructional techniques and support for handson learning of PBE pedagogy with pre-service teachers, this Innovation grant will support scholarship and research to advance the understanding of what is required to effectively teach students seeking to enter the teaching profession how to enact practices that are consistent with the principles of PBE. In addition, the project will advance the Hub’s goal of deepening teacher engagement and expanding teacher participation in PBE projects within school buildings currently participating in the Discovering Place (DP) hub. Finally, because the outcome is to encourage the next generation of teachers to value PBE and to develop the skills and dispositions requisite for PBE, the project will align with the 2017 GLSI goals of making PBE a central instructional strategy that is rigorous and developing, and would support long-term sustainability of PBE pedagogy. 

Board Decision Year: 2014
The Regents of the University of Michigan - U of M - Flint (Flint) Sanker, Leyla ([email protected]) Completed $15,922.00
1476 2014 Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition GLSI Incentive Grant

The Michigan Place-Based Leadership Network (MPBLN) project will support educational leaders who value the principles of Place-Based Education (PBE). Current policy and practice environments make it challenging for leaders, especially those that serve students in poverty, to create and sustain educational environments that support PBE. Leaders face significant time constraints for the planning and reflection needed to implement PBE projects. Additionally they are often isolated and have limited opportunities to share knowledge and resources with each other. The proposed leadership network (MPBLN) supports a real need of leaders that are committed to helping their students become stewards of their environment.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Eastern Michigan University - Office of Research Development (Ypsilanti) Lowenstein, Ethan ([email protected]) Completed $47,838.00
1472 Boardman River - Dam Removal #2

As part of the largest dam removal effort in Michigan’s history, the second of three dams was removed on the Boardman River, a state-designated Natural River and Blue Ribbon trout stream in northern Michigan. The Boardman Dam Removal Project is a signature effort that will ultimately reconnect 160 miles of prime fishery habitat, removing three dams and modifying a fourth to block invasives and provide fish passage to and from the Great Lakes.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Conservation Resource Alliance - Grandview Plaza Building (Traverse City) Beyer, Amy ([email protected]) Completed $400,000.00
1471 Restoring the Great Lakes: One Project at a Time

The goal of the 125 member Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes (HOW) Coalition is to improve the health of the Great Lakes by addressing historic threats and preparing for new challenges. HOW’s “Restoring the Great Lakes: One Project at a Time” project will provide capacity building grants to local and state non-profit organizations in eight priority areas across the Great Lakes region to help them successfully implement restoration projects through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).

Board Decision Year: 2014
National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Office (Ann Arbor) Hill, Jennifer ([email protected]) Completed $99,998.46
1456 Yellow perch stock assessment in drowned river mouth lakes and nearshore Lake Michigan

Board Decision Year: 2014
Grand Valley State University - Annis Water Resources Institute (Muskegon) Ruetz, Carl ([email protected]) Completed $196,310.00
1455 Re-Emergence of Epizootic Epitheliotropic Disease Virus: Potential Effects & Development of Improved Diagnostics and Control Measures

Board Decision Year: 2014
Michigan State University - Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation (East Lansing) Loch, Thomas ([email protected]) Completed $361,150.00
1446 Quantifying differences in otolith chemistry of Chinook salmon in Lake Michigan to determine natal origins

Board Decision Year: 2014
Michigan State University - Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (East Lansing) Clark Jr., Richard ([email protected]) Completed $246,635.66
1420 Classroom With A Current

The Classroom with a Current Project engaged and supported a team of local high school students to design concepts for a new experiential watershed education exhibit or facility at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. The students’ concepts will inform a major museum redesign of existing natural history and interpretive exhibits to provide more comprehensive watershed and fisheries education opportunities for the West Michigan community to increase awareness, understanding and advocacy of the Great Lakes.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Grand Rapids Public Museum Foundation - Collections & Education (Grand Rapids) Schulz, Gina ([email protected]) Completed $49,200.00
1413 Determine Optimal Environmental Temperature and Growth for Cultured Juvenile Lake Sturgeon to Benefit Restoration

The project will determine the optimal environmental temperatures for juvenile lake sturgeon to be reared at, as well as the growth rate of these fish at 5 different water temperatures, including 3 replicates per water temperature regime. This will allow managers to construct growth models to model production programs, project size at stocking and project feed rates for the overall program and feed rates to feed at varying water temperatures.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Genoa National Fish Hatchery (Genoa ) Aloisi, Doug ([email protected]) Declined -
1412 Business Plan for Environmental Education Center

This grant funded the Muskegon Environmental Research & Education Society to develop a business plan for the organization and improvements at the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve, including describing the organization's mission, values, history, and current programming; the community need for the organization and improvements at the preserve; a market and competition analysis; and a strategic, financial, governance, personnel, and development plan for the organization and future programing and improvements.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Muskegon Environmental Research & Education Society (North Muskegon) Brown, Ron ([email protected]) Completed $9,133.00
1408 Ludington Beach House Exhibits

The Parks and Recreation Division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with the Marketing and Outreach Division and the Michigan Historic Center will construct interactive interpretive exhibits at the newly restored Ludington Beach House for the purposes of inspiring and engaging visitors to get involved with Great Lakes fish conservation and Great Lakes fishing recreation.

Board Decision Year: 2014
Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Parks and Recreation Division (Lansing) Lincoln, Matt ([email protected]) Completed $168,547.00
1397 Peshawbestown Marina Project Fishing Platforms

This grant award will help fund the construction cost of two fishing platforms to be integrated into a new marina complex at Peshawbestown, Leelanau County Michigan. This directly supports GLFT’s goal of increasing tribal and public access to fishing on the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan) and will include the advantages of sufficient parking, walkways and restrooms. This is an active fishing area, with a longtime fishing heritage, and the platforms allow anglers to reach viable deep waters via casts

Board Decision Year: 2013
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Suttons Bay) Harris-Brady, Heather ([email protected]) Completed -
1375 Holland Channel Accessibility and Amenities

This project improved angler access at Holland State Park by removing physical barriers and paving a walkway along the channel between Lake Macatawa and Lake Michigan.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Michigan Department of Natural Resources - Parks and Recreation Division (Lansing) Lincoln, Matt ([email protected]) Completed $200,000.00
1374 Traverse City Pier

The grant was used to complete the design, preliminary engineering, studies and construction drawings and details to build an approx. 550 foot, universally accessible fishing pier at the mouth of the Boardman River on Grand Traverse Bay. The pier will provide unique, outstanding access for people of all ages, needs and abilities to fish for migratory and other species, and to learn about the Great Lakes, the importance of stewardship and the value, challenges and opportunities involving the fishery.

Board Decision Year: 2013
City of Traverse City (Traverse City) Soyring, Russ ([email protected]) Completed $232,000.00
1370 Epoufette Harbor development

The Sault Tribe developed a tribal fishing access and mooring facility on the north shore of Lake Michigan, near Epoufette, MI. The project expanded and improved a long-existing commercial fishing access and dock facility that was in disrepair and unusable for commercial fishing vessels. The project provided: mooring for large commercial boats; launch capabilities for commercial, enforcement, biological, and recreational vessels; and parking.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Sault Ste. Marie) McCoy, Susan ([email protected]) Completed $549,675.00
1362 Upper Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative

The GLFT has awarded funding to The Superior Watershed Partnership (SWP) to establish a GLSI Base  Hub.  Becoming a Hub will build on and expand SWP’s successful youth conservation and innovative  environmental  education  programs, thus facilitating establishment of sustainable place-based education  (PBE) in its primary service regions and allowing expansion into the greater SWP mission area

Board Decision Year: 2013
Superior Watershed Partnership (Marquette) Hanson, Abbie ([email protected]) Completed $186,261.00
1361 West Michigan Stewardship Initiative

Muskegon Area ISD Continuation Grant through K-12 Place-Based Education to foster stewardship of Great Lakes, Implement communications plan, and institutionalize place-based education as key research-based instructional method.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Muskegon Area Intermediate School District - Regional Mathematics and Science Center (Muskegon) Krebs, Dave ([email protected]) Completed $143,188.46
1360 Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition

The GLFT provided funding to develop students as citizen stewards able to understand and promote healthy ecological and social systems affecting the Great Lakes basin and their communities through community-based learning projects. This is accomplished by bringing schools and community partners together.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Eastern Michigan University - Office of Research Development (Ypsilanti) Lowenstein, Ethan ([email protected]) Completed $145,000.00
1359 Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative

This grant was funded under the GLFT's Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI). It builds on a capacity-building grant provided earlier by the GLFT. The grant funded a planning process for a GLSI hub to serve six counties in northeastern lower Michigan. The process resulted in an implementation plan for the hub, which was successfully submitted to the GLFT for funding.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan - Northeast Michigan (Alpena) Heraghty, Patrick ([email protected]) Completed $145,000.00
1358 Grand Traverse Stewardship Initiative

The goal of this project was to promote a watershed approach to freshwater stewardship and help students understand their connection to water in the region and the need to preserve and protect our natural resources.

Board Decision Year: 2013
Grand Traverse Conservation District (Traverse City) Grote, Kristen ([email protected]) Completed $141,876.09