Scott Faulkner Executive Director Muskegon River watershed Assembly I am proud to report that It has been a watershed summer at your Assembly! In the last few months, we formed strategic partnerships to explore a massive restoration project, while creating new key stakeholder relationships across nine counties. Most importantly for the future of the watershed, we…
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Jimmie Mitchell Director Natural Resources (Ret) Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Director, Muskegon River Watershed Assembly To explain TEK, and its recent reemergence into the field of Natural Resource management within Michigan, first we have to identify the sense of reverence most hold to the Muskegon River and how it is oftentimes expressed as…
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Jon Bumstead Michigan State Senator Director, Muskegon River Watershed Assembly Dear Friends, The Michigan Legislature recently voted to finalize the state’s fiscal year 2022 budget plan. As chair of the DNR and EGLE budgets, I’ve made protecting our clean water and natural resources a legislative priority. The DNR budget included funding to support important programs…
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George Heartwell Mayor Grand Rapids Michigan (Ret) Director Muskegon River Watershed Assembly The room was quiet, but I could sense the engagement of fifteen Board members and three staff. The wheels were turning! “Really! How big can we think? What’s the thing we could do that nobody would believe possible for a small environmental nonprofit? …
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By Emma Costantino, Outreach Coordinator North Country Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area When children go swimming in lakes and rivers, they sometimes imagine monsters like swamp thing lurking down below. As people get older, we sometimes learn that the real monsters that threaten our lakes and rivers are us. There are several aquatic invasive plants…
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Eight years ago a group of concerned citizens with the support of Ice Mountain Inc. launched the inaugural Muskegon River Trash Bash, an event in which teams of volunteers spent the day removing discarded trash from the river. The project gained momentum and grew in scope until it became obvious that a dedicated project manager…
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