COVID RESPONSE CREWS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST UPPER PENINSULA COMMUNITIES, TRIBES AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Rain Garden Challenge
The Lake Superior Rain Garden Challenge promotes the use of rain gardens as one way to protect the Great Lakes in the City of Marquette.
EARTH DAY MILKWEED PROGRAM
To celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary, SWP is mailing free milkweed seed packets to expand critical habitat for pollinator species like the monarch butterfly.
OUR PROJECTS
Great Lakes Conservation Corps
Now accepting applications for the 2020 season! Each summer the SWP hires and trains between 25-30 young men and women to work on the GLCC! Travel, camp and work on a variety of restoration, recreation and community projects including green infrastructure, dune restoration, trial building, wetland restoration, tree planting, native plant restoration and more.
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Climate Adaptation Leaders
The SWP is a regional leader in addressing the impacts of climate change. The SWP assists communities with climate education and climate planning but more importantly helps communities fund and implement on-the-ground climate adaptation projects including everything from energy conservation to solar installation, from coastal restoration to green infrastructure, from wetland restoration to tree planting!
LEARN MOREThe Lake Superior Rain Garden Challenge promotes the use of rain gardens as one way to protect the Great Lakes in Marquette.
Great Lakes Tools
The SWP was honored to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) select the SWP Great Lakes Shoreviewer for inclusion in the US Climate Toolkit! The toolkit provides easy-to-use planning tools and apps including; a coastal erosion reporting tool, real-time wave and weather apps deployed on Great Lakes buoys, live Lake Superior webcams
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Lake Superior Volunteer Corps
For anyone who loves Lake Superior! Visitors, locals, businesses….anyone! Volunteers work alongside members of the Great Lakes Conservation Corps assisting with a wide variety of conservation projects. If you are interested in signing up for a volunteer work day, please contact emily@superiorwatersheds.org
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Great Lakes Protection and Restoration
From green infrastructure to habitat restoration, the SWP implements a wide variety of large scale Great Lakes protection and restoration projects including but not limited to green infrastructure projects that improve stormwater quality entering Lake Superior coastal dune restoration, wetland restoration, and habitat restoration projects.
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SWP Land Conservancy
If you own land you would like to see forever protected, please contact our office and a Land Protection Specialist can help you. A conservation easement is a voluntary, legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust or government agency that permanently limits uses of the land in order to protect its conservation values.
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Partnering For Watershed Restoration
The Partnering for Watershed Restoration (PWR) group is a collaborative effort of Federal, Tribal, State and local agencies, academic institutions, non-profits, citizen groups and industry to accelerate watershed restoration through sharing information and pursuing projects of shared interest throughout the central and western Upper Peninsula
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Marquette Climate Adaptation Task Force
The Great Lakes states are at a critical time in climate and energy planning as energy becomes more expensive and the extremes of climate change challenge the region. SWP is working with regional partners to foster cooperation in climate change adaptation planning and mitigation efforts, such as the Climate Adaptation Task Force (CATF).
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Community Environmental Monitoring Program
The SWP in partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Community Foundation of Marquette County conducts independent environmental monitoring at the Eagle mine, the Humboldt Mill and along the designated Transportation Route. Environmental monitoring includes air quality, groundwater quality, surface water quality, wildlife, plant life and more.
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WE ARE RESULTS DRIVEN
The SWP is the regional leader in planning and implementing science-based habitat restoration projects.
The SWP’s highest priority is implementing on-the-ground projects that improve water quality, mitigate climate change, reduce carbon emissions, restore degraded habitats, build resilient communities, educate young people and protect the Great Lakes!
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The SWP staff (biologists, technicians, planners, educators) uses sound science to design creative, sustainable solutions to address a wide variety of environmental, social and economic issues facing northern Great Lakes communities.
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The SWP uses before and after monitoring to document improvements for almost all projects including; water quality, habitat restoration, climate adaptation, energy conservation, pollution prevention and many other environmental and community projects.
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Thanks to the SWP and GLCC for two decades of implementing real climate adaptation projects all across the northern Great Lakes!
- Bill McKibben
Impactful Great Lakes K-12 Education Programs
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I AM A SUPER YOOPER
Great Lakes Education Inspires!
The mission of the Superior Watershed Partnership is to protect and improve the natural resources of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on a watershed basis; by promoting responsible individual and community actions that ensure a sustainable environment, encourage a sustainable economy and help improve quality of life.