While in town for its annual public meeting on Oct. 5 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, the IJC’s International Kootenay Lake Board of Control was treated to a tour by the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho Fisheries Program. Here’s some of what they saw.
Habitat
In 2018, newsletter readers learned about an experiment to connect remote Great Lakes island communities through a collaborative network aimed at building relationships,…
IJC staffers from the Canadian Section in Ottawa took time recently to help clean up a local shoreline.
More than a half million fish passed through Milltown Dam on their way up the St. Croix River to spawn this year, a powerful sign of how alewife populations are recovering in the region now that access has been restored to the upstream reaches of the river.
The Great Lakes support a US$6 trillion regional economy. But their value goes well beyond, including benefits such as aesthetics, wildlife habitat, biodiversity conservation, recreational fishing, swimming, boating and aquatic life support. The lakes also provide drinking water to nearly 40…
The Great Lakes are expansive, interconnected watersheds in Canada and the United States.