Natural Web Connections
Try out these sites, including ours, on which you can now find our newsletter. You will find lots of great links on most of these. Send us your feedback by email: kolons@sprynet.com.
 RVLT — www-personal.umich.edu/~lwk/rvlt.html
Land Trust Alliance — www.lta.org
The RVLT is a member organization of the LTA. Check out their website and click on “strategies for land owners,” for a concise explanation of co servation easements and other preservation options. MSU Extension — www.msue.msu.edu
From there choose regional or county office. Each office has its own site, with census and agricultural statistics over the past few decades. The Lenawee County site has a link to Lenawee Citizens for Land Stewardship. The Nature Conservancy — www.tnc.org
Lots of neat destinations around the world. River Raisin Watershed Project —
www-personal.umich.edu/~dallen/raisinproject.html
Graduate students have been studying the Raisin. Michigan Land Use Institute — www.mlui.org
“Careful research and reasoned advocacy to protect the environment, enhance economic opportunities and support vibrant communities.” Great Lakes Information Network —
www.great-lakes.net
Lots of good stuff. Michigan DNR — www.dnr.state.mi.us
Lots of information on natural resources, programs, budgets, divisions, news and legislation. Michigan Department of Environmental Quality —
www.deq.state.mi.us
Environmental Assistance, Surface Water Quality, Land and Water Management and other divisions with regulatory authority. International Joint Commission — www.ijc.org
US/Canadian issues on the Great Lakes.
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