Feature Headlines

• Growing Communities Plan to Protect Natural Resources
• New Fisheries Leadership School in Session
• Eurasian Ruffe May Increase Pressure on Lake Michigan Perch
• ESCAPE Provides Ideal Tool for Mentoring Teachers
• Control of Purple Loosestrife Now a National 4-H Project
• Reel in the Latest Fish Consumption Advisories
• Tracking Toxic Mercury in Polluted Waters

Feature Headlines

• Wingspread Accord Ties Future Growth to Natural Resources
• U of I Ecologist Named Sea Grant Director
• Removing Dams Reconnects the River System
• An Electric Barrier to the Flow of Invasive Species
• Simulated Barrier Stops Bighead Carp
• Sparks Sails into the Sunset
• IISG to Help Improve Beach Monitoring

If you fish in the Great Lakes region and eat your catch, this pamphlet will help you reduce your risk of consuming contaminated fish and introduce you to some of the facts of PCBs. Note: file includes English, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese translations.

Feature Headlines

• Profiling Culprits in the Great Lakes
• Interim Director Steer IISG into the Future
• Experts Gather To Explore River Restoration
• Students Set Sights on Community Awareness
• Research Takes the Stage
• DNA Fingerprinting Can ID E. coli Contamination
• Funding Boosts Ideas into Action

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• Water-Wealthy/Water Poor
• Charlebois Indentifies New Invader
• IISG Goes to Brazil: An Interview with LaDon Swann
• NiSource and IISG Team Up to Fund Environmental Projects
• The Forecast for E. coli is….