- Great Lakes Information Network
Information spanning environmental quality, resource management, transportation, demographic, and economic development data, information and resources on the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada.
www.great-lakes.net
- Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping
Links to museums, photos, fact, events.
www.boatnerd.com
- Great Lakes Commission
Eight-state compact agency that focuses on regional environmental quality, resource management, transportation, and economic development.
www.glc.org
- Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council
Confederation of organizations and individuals who share a concern for the present and future of sport fishing, our natural and stocked resources and the ecosystem in which we live.
www.great-lakes.org
- Great Lakes Historical Society
Great Lakes lore is told through ship models, painting, exhibits and collections of artifacts unique to the Inland Seas.
www.inlandseas.org
- International Association for Great Lakes Research
Promotes Great Lakes and other large lakes research and disseminates scientific information through publications and conferences.
www.iaglr.org
- Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Region
Features current news articles and list other resources. From the Great Lakes Information Network.
www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/invasive.html
- Freshwater Seas
Monthly magazine focused on sailing in the Great Lakes region.
www.freshwaterseas.com
- Inland Sea Society
Works towards maintaining a Lake Superior Basin with a naturally diverse and healthy ecosystem.
www.inlandsea.org
- USEPA - Great Lakes National Program Office
Oversees U.S. activities "to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem."
www.epa.gov/glnpo
- Exotic Species and Their Effects on the Great Lakes
Provides identification and profile sheets for the Round Goby, Sea Lamprey, Spiny Water Flea, Zebra Mussel, Ruffe, Purple Loosestrife.
www.great-lakes.org/exotics.html
- Lake Michigan Forum
Diverse stakeholder group providing public input to U.S. EPA on the Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP), called for in the The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
www.lkmichiganforum.org
- Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy
Environment Canada and the United States Envionmental Protection Agency working towards the elimination of persistent toxic substances.
www.binational.net
- Non-Native Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
Teacher resource identifying the non-native invasive species have become established in and around the Great Lakes since the 1800s.
www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/ans/ans_1.html
- Maritime History of the Great Lakes
Collection of images, historical documents, ship lists, and shipwreck history in the Great Lakes. Search newspaper articles, essays, pictures, and other resources to find out about sailing and shipping in the region.
www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes
- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Nonindigenous Species Program
Examining the role of the zebra mussel in promoting nuisance blooms of the potentially toxic blue-green alga Microcystis on Saginaw Bay and the effects of these blooms on the ecosystem and the mussels themselves.
www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/nsmain.html
- Great Lakes Ecopages
Offers information on ecology, human impacts, restoration, and more.
www.epa.gov/glnpo/ecopage.html
- Great Lakes Lights
Offers photos and images of lighthouses around the U.S. Great Lakes, with historical facts about each one.
www.lighthousegetaway.com/lights/g_lakes.html
- Lake Michigan Maritime Marginalia
Online quarterly magazine devoted to the arcane facts of Lake Michigan's maritime history. Covers topics like inland water transportation, particular ships, and commercial navigation of the Great Lakes.
www.wright.edu/~william.lafferty
- Great Lakes Shipwreck File
Searchable database detailing total losses of Great Lakes ships 1679-1999.
www.boatnerd.com/swayze/shipwreck/Default.htm
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