Land acquisition provided protection to coaster brook trout spawning habitat in the Nipigon River

Scientists studied the base of the Lake Superior food chain.

The Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) was developed to provide an assessment of the state of the Lake Superior ecosystem, including its ecological impairments, emerging issues and their causes, and gaps in knowledge which require further research and monitoring.  Through the Lake Superior Binational Program, biologists at the Service's Ashland National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office and many other natural resource agencies, organizations, businesses, and academic institutions collaborate to implement the Management Plan and report on progress made to achieve identified goals and targets.

As U.S. co-chairs of the Aquatic Community and Habitat Committees, Henry Quinlan and Pam Dryer help lead development and prioritization of their respective committee work plans and coordinate progress updates.  Their efforts and those of many other individuals were recently released in the 2008 LaMP.  This document provides a 2-year progress report on how, collectively, we are doing to protect, maintain, and rehabilitate the natural resources of the Lake Superior basin to maintain and restore the “physical, chemical, and biological” integrity of the lake.

The Lake Superior LaMP can be accessed at http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/lamp/ls_2008/index.html