Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News

The Newsletter of Freshwater Future

The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat News is the newsletter of Freshwater Future, published four times per year. The News is intended to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas among citizens and organizations working to protect aquatic habitats in the Great Lakes Basin.

Volume 16, Number 2 • Summer 2008

Director’s Notes: Collective Wisdom

By Jill Ryan

This issue highlights grant projects recently funded by Freshwater Future as well as a gathering of grant recipients and their new mentors at our recent Grassroots Symposium. I am continually amazed by the wisdom of the individuals and groups working to protect our rivers, lakes and wetlands across the Great Lakes. I am even more astounded when a group of these outstanding activists comes together and shares their wisdom. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that participated in the symposium for taking the time to learn, network and share your wisdom. While none of us know everything that is needed to protect and restore our Great Lakes resources, when we come together and share what we know individually an amazing thing happens: we have the knowledge, wisdom, experience and energy we need to move forward. I am always renewed by such opportunities to share in the collective wisdom of citizens and I hope you will find opportunities to share your wisdom and experience and be renewed and engaged by the wisdom of others.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

– Brigham Young

Disclaimer: The interpretations and conclusions presented in this newsletter represent the opinions of the individual authors. They in no way represent the views of the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, the C.S. Mott Foundation, subscribers, donors, or any organization mentioned in this publication.

Freshwater Future builds effective community-based citizen action to protect and restore the water quality of the Great Lakes basin. We work toward this goal by providing financial assistance, communications and networking assistance and technical assistance to citizens and grassroots watershed groups throughout the Great Lakes basin. Through these efforts we work with over 1,800 grassroots watershed groups and citizens to protect and restore the rivers, lakes and wetlands in their communities. Freshwater Future is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.

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