Take Back My Meds Milwaukee and Racine County
With support from FFLM, the Take Back My Meds (TBMM) Coalition in Milwaukee and Racine will continue their campaigns to ensure that unused medicine gets disposed of in secure drop boxes. TBMM has created an impressive coalition of health care, drug prevention and environmental partners to promote drug take back. The coalition is the only […]
Operations and the Coastal Resiliency Community Impact Project
LNRP serves a critical role in implementing water quality projects from Sheboygan to Door County. Our funding would continue to support LNRP’s capacity to recruit and advocate for implementable water quality improvement projects both with community partners and local governments. This strategy has proven to be successful, and LNRP now works with eleven watershed groups, […]
Maywood and Evergreen Parks Water Quality Improvement
The City of Sheboygan will utilize green infrastructure to stabilize gullies, address erosion at stormwater outfalls, and manage sedimentation from drainpipes at Maywood and Evergreen Parks along the Pigeon River. In addition, partners will host public outreach, education, and demonstration events along with the project to highlight the use of green infrastructure to provide stormwater […]
Shagbark Recreational Area Wet Prairie Restoration
Our funding will support restoration at Shagbark Recreational Area in northwestern Kenosha. Root-Pike WIN is working with the City of Kenosha to develop a phased approach for the restoration of the Shagbark Recreational Area as well as other sections of the Pike Creek. Pike Creek has been significantly damaged as the City of Kenosha has […]
Water Sector Mentoring and Employment Project
Community Water Solutions (CWS) will set up a water science laboratory in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee. Sage Water recently donated an EDS Environmental Discovery System – Water Management System to CWS which had been housed at the Global Water Center. The new lab and state-of-the art equipment will be used to teach high […]
Reforestation and Wetland Restoration Program
Our funding will help Ducks Unlimited participate in MMSD’s Reforestation and Wetland Restoration Program in the Milwaukee area. Funding will support the staff necessary to engineer, design and implement wetland restoration projects. MMSD has set a goal of planting 6,000,000 trees and restoring 4,000 acres of wetlands over the next 10 years. DU has signed […]
Milwaukee Environmental Youth Collaborative
Thirteen youth serving environmental organizations with internship programs in Milwaukee have come together to better coordinate their efforts and to create a clear pathway for youth who are interested in further pursuing their environmental interests, either as a passion or as a future career. This grant will help us ensure that high school students enrolled […]
Building Capacity for Public Wetland Restorations
This grant would support the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s efforts to restore wetlands on lands owned by the Department of Natural Resources. The surge of WDNR wildlife biologist retirements in the past few years has left the state without the expertise or bandwidth to undertake restorations on the hundreds of thousands of acres of restorable wetlands […]
Completion of the designation of the Bay of Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
The NERR headquarters on Green Bay will serve as a research hub for Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. At the local level, the NERR will offer a coordinating force to better manage, restore, and promote the Green Bay ecosystem. A grant from the Fund will continue to support the position at UWGB responsible for shepherding […]
Coastal Lake Michigan Habitat Restoration Project
This grant will support on-the-ground restoration at five popular state-owned sites along or near Lake Michigan. Projects will include rain garden installations, wetland restorations and invasive species management at Havenwoods State Forest, Kohler-Andrae State Park, Lakeshore State Park, Point Beach State Forest, and Red Banks Alvar State Natural Area. At Kohler-Andrae activities will include rain […]