2005 Grant Recipients
In 2005 the Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership awarded $9,000 in grants to groups working on natural resource protection in the Lakeshore Basin .
A total of 9 projects from Calumet, Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc counties in the following Teams:
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- Water Resources Team
- Communication and EducationTeam
- Land Use and Protection Team
- Agriculture and Urban Pollution Prevention Team
Water Resources
Projects must monitor, or improve streams, rivers, lakes, or wetlands. Also, considered are projects to improve public access for passive water-related recreation to public waterways.
Woodland Dunes Nature Center Manitowoc County
Will construct an extension to the existing 1/3 mile Cattail trail boardwalk. The extension will terminate at the West Twin river. Educational signs with a watershed focus will be added along with the creation of a school program on water quality.
Grant Recipient:
Woodland Dunes Nature Center
Award Amount: $1,000
Main Street Art Works Calumet County
Will host the traveling Common Ground exhibit and include speakers, performers and educational programs to enhance the rich learning experience that partners science, art and the environment. The outcome is to increase awareness and stewardship of the Niagara Escarpment. Expected attendance is 15,000 with the goal of reaching 75,000 through other media outlets.
Grant Recipient:
Main Street Art Works
Award Amount: $1,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Glacier Land RC&D
Communication and Education
Projects must establish or improve communication and education about basin issues to the general public, youth, and stewardship programs.
Non-Point Education:
a year long effort to increase public awareness of water quality issues.Crossroads at Big Creek, Door County a Sturgeon Bay environmental learning center will offer a variety of educational activities to introduce the concept of non-point pollution to the broadest possible audience in many small increments. Door Property Owners recently purchased an interactive model called an Enviro-Scape. They wish this elaborate teaching tool to be housed at and used by Crossroads for outreach of this nature. Funding from LNRP will enable Crossroads to offer stipends for teacher training, provide outreach to schools and community organizations, and promote educational events pertaining to non-point pollution and water quality. “Non-point Education” would be offered to a variety of groups, in a number of disparate formats in many locations repeatedly for a significant cumulative result.
Grant Recipient:Crossroads at Big Creek
Environmental Learning Preserve
Award Amount: $1,000
Door County Environmental Council Door County
The Door County Environmental Council (DCEC) has been operating with a web page, not a web-site on the internet for the last 5 years. The DCEC, 34 years old, remains the only environmental organization in Door County vigorously protecting all aspects of the environment in the county. A web-site is long overdue. The goal of this project is to grow the DCEC web page into a fully functioning web-site that provides members, volunteers, staff and the public a virtual location to get information on:- what they may do to help protect our fragile eco-system, including emailed “action alerts,”
- activities, past and present, of the DCEC
- joining DCEC on the web, contacting DCEC, links to other environmental organizations.
The new web-site will also function as a “virtual office” for the organization. Currently, all data is being kept by several volunteers and vendors of DCEC in separate computers. The virtual office aspect of the web-site will eliminate much duplication of effort in areas of membership lists, membership drives, donor data, bookkeeping and other general “internal” data as the DCEC board may direct.
Door County Environmental Council
Award Amount: $1,000
Land-use and Protection
Projects must focus on improving land development decisions that restore or protect natural areas.
The Kewaunee County Groundwater Guardians
Kewaunee County
The Kewaunee County Groundwater Guardians (KCGG) is a newly formed organization that is aimed at building awareness of these local groundwater issues. The KCGG is proposing a series of activities to develop a good standing membership base that supports groundwater protection and private well landowner education. To accomplish this, the KCGG will focus on building its organizational capacity to assume an important role in Kewaunee County. In doing so, the KCGG supports the Kewaunee County Land & Water Conservation Department’s (KC-LWCD) well testing, educational, and policy efforts and wants to assume a proactive role in identifying areas and activities that are prone to contaminating our groundwater resources.
Grant Recipient:
Kewaunee County Land and Water Conservation
Award Amount: $1,000
Fiscal Sponsor: Glacier Land RC&D
Bayshore Property Owners
Door County
Will continue E-coli testing to improve public safety and public health through the hope of eventual source identification. The testing will be conducted for 12 weeks in Door County.
Grant Recipient:
Bayshore Property Owners
Award Amount: $1,000
Fiscal Sponsor UW-Oshkosh/Colleen McDermott
Centerville CARES
Manitowoc County
Centerville CARES has sampled water for bacteria and nutrient for three years near Point and Fischer Creeks. A flow meter was needed to enhance their data, making sampling more valuable.
Grant Recipient:
Centerville CARES
Award Amount: $720
Fiscal Sponsor: Clean Water Action Council
Agricultural and Urban Pollution Prevention
Projects must focus on reducing and preventing water, air, or soil pollution from rural or urban sources.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy
Kewaunee, Calumet and Manitowoc Counties
The objective of this project is to educate community leaders, policy makers and constituent interest groups of the importance of intelligent land use decisions (planning and zoning), and land conservation, particularly that which can be carried out on private lands through private initiatives. The Conservancy’s primary tool for private land protection is the conservation easement, which can be used to preserve natural areas and working farms and forests, establish and maintain stream and shoreline buffers, and protect groundwater recharge areas – all while the land remains in private hands.
Presentations (thirty is the initial target) are expected to take place in a variety of places throughout Manitowoc, Kewaunee and Calumet counties. Conservancy staff and volunteer members will make the presentations, with the objective of raising public consciousness of the Conservancy and the services and assistance it offers. The Area wide Education Initiative will continue through 2006, with every expectation that it will assume a regular (and expanding) role in the Conservancy’s work
Grant Recipient:
Glacial Lakes Conservancy
Award Amount: $1,000
Kewaunee County Agriculture and Environmental Stewardship
Kewaunee County
Will host a countywide meeting to focus on bringing professional speakers and organizations together to assist Kewaunee County in identifying and correcting the growing environmental concerns correlated with farming. The meeting will include local farmers, non-profits, governmental units and the local Discovery Farm.
Kewaunee Co. Ag and Environ Stewardship
Award Amount: $500
Fiscal Sponsor: Glacier Land RC&D