The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) and Dominion are proud to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the Fall 2008 Lakeshore Basin Champion of Conservation Awards.
The environmental award program recognizes and honors the outstanding achievements of any group, program, organization, business or individual in a wide range of environmental initiatives throughout Northeastern Wisconsin. The award seeks to pay tribute to those that have demonstrated a commitment to environmental excellence, leadership, and accomplishment in their respective fields.
By sponsoring these awards, LNRP and Dominion hope to encourage our communities to emulate the achievements of the successful nominees, thereby promoting innovative environmental efforts and enhancing the quality of life in the Lakeshore Basin.
Call for Nominations (PDF 640 KB)
Deadline for Nominations: September 30th, 2008
The awards are open to any group, program, organization, business, or individual located and working in the Lakeshore Basin. Nominations can be made by the person or persons involved in the activity or by a third party.
Individual award nominees should focus on one of the following four areas of concern:
Water Resources: Projects that monitor or improve streams, rivers, lakes or wetlands. Also, projects to improve access to public waterways for passive, water-related recreation.
Communication and Education: Projects that establish or improve communication and education about basin environmental issues for the general public, youth and stewardship programs.
Land-use Conservation and Protection: Projects that focus on improving land development decisions to restore or protect natural areas.
Agricultural and Urban Pollution Prevention: Projects that focus on reducing and preventing water, air or soil pollution from rural or urban sources.
Two Champion of Conservation awards will be given per year. Each comes with a monetary award of $2000.
LNRP uses Grant Advisory Teams (GATs) to determine the selection of our community grants. GATs are composed of knowledgeable volunteers from throughout the Lakeshore Basin including natural resource professionals, scientists, teachers and leaders of environmental organizations. A similar process will be used for the Champions of Conservation selection process.
Each selection team will rank the nominees in each of their specific areas with the highest ranked nominee sent forward to the final selection committee.
The final selection committee is made up each selection team chair, two representatives of Dominion Energy, and the LNRP Executive Director (7 individuals). The committee will choose one Champion of Conservation from the four recommendations coming from each selection team.
The selected individual will be notified by LNRP and invited to an award reception. The reception will also be the venue for the We All Live on the Water seminar series. The series will bring speakers that can reflect on timely and topical issues impacting the Wisconsin watershed flowing into Lake Michigan.
Instructions (PDF 75 KB)
Nomination forms (PDF 657 KB)