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Mining IdeasTurning a Grant Assistance Program into a Knowledge Base
A Report on the Ecological Protection and Restoration Program in the Great Lakes Basin - April 1996From 1992 through 1995, the Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) awarded $8,519,219 in grants for 87 projects to 36 local, Tribal, State, and Federal agencies and non-governmental organizations who collaborated with some 240 partners to protect and restore the Great Lakes ecosystem. More than 240 partners are collaborating with grantees to increase the quality and extent of native ecosystems and teach the public about the special and valuable nature of the natural resources of the Great Lakes. In addition to GLNPO grant dollars, grantees have told us they leveraged $9,018,867 in actual dollars and in kind services. Twenty-one full time and 38 part time jobs were created. The dollars and resulting intensive activities have beneficially impacted the natural resources of more that 18.5 million acres, or approximately 15% of the total land acreage of the basin. Because of the 87 projects the following can be said about the natural resources of the Great Lakes ecosystem:
The 87 projects are generating a wealth of information. GLNPO summarized the most recent information about each project in a descriptive narrative and compiled the descriptions into a "catalog". We and our partners will mine this catalog for ideas and build a network of protection and restoration experts with whom to fill in knowledge gaps and generate creative solutions to ecosystem problems. The health of the Great Lakes ecosystem, as well as the humans who live here, depends on its integrity.
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