The intent of this guidebook is to provide landowners with information that can help reduce harmful impacts on watersheds while emphasizing natural lawn care.

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s Dr. Stuart Carlton has started a new monthly podcast called “Teach Me About the Great Lakes.” The purpose of the podcast is to help Carlton—a social scientist who grew up in the South near the Gulf of Mexico—learn about the biology, ecology and natural history of the Great Lakes.

A new episodes of Teach Me About the Great Lakes will be released on the first Monday of each month. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you have questions about the Great Lakes that you want to be answered in one of the episodes, reach out to @TeachGreatLakes on Twitter or email Stuart Carlton at jsc@purdue.edu.

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.

Discussion of the Buffalo River Restoration Partnership project from 2011-2013

This publication answers local community questions about the revitalization of the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern in NW Indiana. Habitat restoration and sediment cleanup work under the Great Lakes Legacy Act began in 2009 and is expected to last another decade.

This is an annual summary of Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant success stories.

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