Climate Response Crews

The Superior Watershed Partnership (SWP) is offering the Great Lakes Climate Corps to assist Upper Peninsula communities, tribes and non-profit organizations with a wide variety of community projects and emergency situations created by the climate crisis.

Energy Conservation Corps

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!

The Lake Superior Rain Garden Challenge promotes the use of rain gardens to improve stormwater quality, provide important habitat and protect Lake Superior.

Learn About the Rain Garden Challenge

Great Lakes Planning 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

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 kathleen@superiorwatersheds.org

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.

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.

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

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).

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.