Great Lakes Ecoregion Network announces new blog

The Great Lakes Ecoregion Network (GLEN) is starting a new Substack blog, Great Lakes Together, to foster transboundary cooperation and coordination on significant threats to the lands and waters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ecoregions. Comprised of long-standing and emerging leaders on Great Lakes issues in the United States and Canada, the all-volunteer network works on policy analysis and advocacy for long-term strategies to safeguard ecological and human health in the region.

Focal issues include:

·         the integrity and efficacy of the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement;

·         climate change threats to the Great Lakes;

·         prevention and remediation of toxic and radionuclide pollution;

·         re-imaging agricultural policy to reduce impacts on ecosystem health;

·         land, watershed, and benthic physical integrity;

·         biodiversity and habitat.

Jane Elder, blog editor, stated: “In a time of political divisiveness and increasing environmental stress, GLEN’s Great Lakes Together blog can provide a place for dialogue across borders and across issues and help reinforce the more than fifty years of partnership between the United States and Canada, and increasingly, with the region’s Indigenous nations. People throughout the Great Lakes region know how important shared goals and cooperation are to safeguard the irreplaceable shared treasure that is the Great Lakes. We want to reinforce and sustain the relationships throughout the region that will continue to play an essential role in achieving healthier and more resilient lakes and lands.

The blog will feature a variety of writers from many backgrounds working in the areas of GLEN’s focal issues, posting monthly, or more frequently, as topics merit. Blogs will be available through Substack, or the GLEN website. If you are interested in writing for Great Lakes Together, please reach out through the “Get Involved” form on the GLEN website.