"Return to the Source." Improving water quality, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and recreational/ educational opportunities in your watersheds. the Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum of 2008 will be held at Best Western Stoneridge Inn
6675 Burtwistle Lane London, Ontario, N6L1H5, CA on February 8th and 9th, 2008. Read the brochure and agenda. Register. Get directions.

There are currently 185 known invasive species established in the Great Lakes. What’s worse is that a new potentially devastating new critter arrives approximately every 28 weeks. The introduction of these species can damage the Lake Erie Basin economy, the Lake Erie ecosystem, and the experience of Lake Erie visitors. Congress has manageable solutions to this problem, it is time they use them.

Imagine your greatest public resource without any consistent laws to protect it. Unfortunately, there is no need to imagine – this is a reality of our Great Lakes. The Ohio Environmental Council is working to secure – for the first time ever – binding standards to keep the Lake Erie’s waters within the Lake Erie basin to sustain our way of life here at home.

Imagine a shoreline off limits to children building sand castles, learning how to fish, bird watching, or collecting shells. If some privileged shoreline owners have their way, roughly 11 million Ohioans will no longer have the rights which they have had for more than 200 years, to enjoy the Lake Erie shoreline.

Ohio Environmental Council staff and volunteers are attending Coastal Resources Advisory Council subcommittee meetings in Cleveland and Ashtabula, monitoring the overhaul of coastal land lease regulations. Read OEC's draft comments.