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Thanks to support from the Lake Michigan Shorelands
Alliance, Gathering Waters Conservancy,
and the Joyce Foundation, four Great Lake Gatherings
will be held in the Fall of 2008 in the Lake Michigan Basin communities
of Green Bay, Sheboygan, Mequon, and Milwaukee.
The Lake Michigan
Shorelands Alliance (LMSA) is a collaborative
group of land trusts working to protect critical land and water
resources in the Lake Michigan Basin. LMSA was formed in 2003
and has undertaken strategic conservation planning for the Lake
Michigan Basin watershed region. The Alliance has identified
eighteen Priority Conservation Sites, four of which will be the
focus of the Great Lake Gatherings.
Alliance members:
Caledonia Conservancy
Door County Land Trust
Gathering Waters
Conservancy
Glacial Lakes Conservancy
Kenosha Racine Land Trust
Milwaukee Area Land Conservancy
Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust
Ozaukee Washington Land Trust
River Revitalization
Foundation
The Nature
Conservancy of Wisconsin
Gathering Waters Conservancy is a statewide service center for
Wisconsin’s land trust community, and works to help communities,
land trusts and landowners protect the places that make Wisconsin
special. Gathering Waters’ goal is to increase the amount
of protected land in the state through private voluntary action
and build the capacity of the state’s private, non-profit
conservation organizations through consulting, public education,
and policy advocacy. The Great Lake Gatherings are just one of
the Conservancy’s conservation initiatives.
The Joyce
Foundation was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago.
Joyce supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the
Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and
to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs,
and a diverse and thriving culture.
Joyce has funded citizen and
environmental groups around the Great Lakes, both in the U.S. and
Canada, that provided critical input for two keystone agreements
released in 2005: one on protecting the Great Lakes from pollution,
invasive species, and other threats; the second on conserving Great
Lakes water. Over the years Joyce has made grants of more than
$600 million to groups working to improve the quality of life in
the Great Lakes region. The Joyce Foundation is generously supporting
The Great Lake Gatherings initiative and the work of the Alliance
member land trusts.
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Questions? Call Liz
Walsh at (608) 251-9131 x12 or email liz [at] gatheringwaters.org.
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