LAKE MICHIGAN INTERLEAGUE ORGANIZATION 2007 PROGRAM
Members from sixty local and state League of Women Voters in the Lake Michigan Water Basin
adopted October 7, 2007:
The program of LMILO shall be based on the Natural Resources positions of the League of Women Voters of the US as they relate to environmental issues affecting the Lake Michigan basin and surrounding states, including:
- Education of the Public and the Lake Michigan Leagues on the Problems of Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes
- Encourage Public Participation in Planning for the Protection and Restoration of the Great Lakes
- Support Scientific Research for the Great Lakes
- Encourage Shoreline Management Planning and Implementation
AREAS OF EMPHASIS 2006-2007
- As a member of the Healing our Waters Coalition we will work on the Great Lakes Restoration Priorities Initiative established at the Great Lakes Restoration Conference 2006.
The Coalition Goals are:
To restore Great Lakes Water Quality
Prevent and Control Non-native Aquatic Invasive Species
Clean-up Concentrated Toxic Pollution
- We will support the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration's Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes and work to implement the recommendations in their Report.
- We will work to pass the Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act now in the United State Congress. (Congress recently passed an important piece of the Restoration effort, the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act, at double its previously authorized level - $80 million over 5 years)
- We will support efforts to reduce the use of pesticides and promote the use of nontoxic alternatives
- We will advocate for the ratification of The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement signed by all the Great Lakes Governors on December 13, 2005
- We will monitor the process of the Review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
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