Group Receives Grant
September 8, 2006
For immediate release
Marilyn John, President
Watershed Watchers, Inc.
Watershed Protection Group Receives Grant
The environmental group in the northern reaches of the Milwaukee River watershed recently received a boost when Watershed Watchers, Inc./Taxpayers Against Airport Growth was awarded a grant from the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund. The $3,000 grant is to help with legal services, training, and strategy planning, all of which will help in our protection of the environment.
The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund is coordinated by the tip of the Mitt Watershed Council located in Petoskey, Michigan. The Network and Fund are designed to provide financial and informational support to citizen efforts to protect wetlands, lakes, streams, and other aquatic habitats across the Great Lakes Basin. Grassroots organizations and citizen initiatives in both the U.S. and Canada are eligible for funding in the two annual funding cycles.
“The decision-making process seems to get more difficult each year as the proposals are clearly to implement outstanding projects to protect water resources,” said Jill Ryan, Director of the Network and Fund. “Each of the 66 unique applications we received presented important opportunities to make a difference for our rivers, lakes, and wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin. Watershed Watchers, Inc. / Taxpayers Against Airport Growth was one of just 14 that received funding in this grant cycle,” said Ryan.
The mission of Watershed Watchers, Inc.,/Taxpayers Against Airport Growth is to protect sensitive wetlands, forest, and water quality in the Milwaukee River Watershed that could be impacted by any unnecessary destruction to the natural resources. The grant from the Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund will help accomplish this mission by helping to make everyone aware of the destruction of the proposed airport expansion and any other development that will destroy the watershed ecosystem. Our organization has been receiving grants from the Great Lakes Aquatic Network and Fund since 2002. We are grateful for their work throughout the Great Lakes region and especially their interest in saving the rivers that flow into the Lake Michigan Basin.
If you would like more information on this project, please send an e-mail to watchdogviews@watershedwatchers.org, or write to Watershed Watchers, P.O. Box, 72, Newburg, WI 53060