The Forum offers this page as a source of information that reflects many perspectives expressed in a community where a mine is operated or proposed.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum has a strong focus on developing economic and environmental sustainability in communities around the Lake Superior basin.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum supports Citizen Science Monitoring programs during the Year of Monitoring on Lake Superior in 2012.
We invite you to register as a Lake Superior Steward and join us in pledging to do at least one thing in the next year that helps protect or restore the world’s largest freshwater lake.
Climate change within the Superior basin could be manifested in a number of ways. Learn more.
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Chairman Mike Wiggins, Jr.,
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Chairman Mike Wiggins, Jr. made opening remarks at the meeting. The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have City of Ashland Mayor Bill Whalen welcome guests to Ashland. Watch Speech (Video courtesy of Steve Zieverink, of The Hypha Film Project)
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Mayor Bill Whalen |
The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have City of Ashland Mayor Bill Whalen welcome guests to Ashland. |
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| Lakewide Management Plan and Mining Impacts | |||
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Lynelle Hanson, The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have Lynelle Hanson speak about “Lake Superior Binational Program and the Lakewide Management Plan.” |
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| Chemical Discharges and Mining Impacts | |||
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Nancy Larson, The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have Nancy Larson present “Zero Discharge Demonstration Program and Mining Impacts.” View Powerpoint Handout (.pdf)
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Mike Ripley, The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have Mike Ripley present “Historical Impacts of Ferrous Mining in the Lake Superior Basin.” View Powerpoint of Handout (.pdf) |
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The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have Ann McCammon-Soltis present “Tribal Roles in Environmental Review and Mining Permitting: A US Perspective.” View Powerpoint Handout (.pdf) |
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Dr. Tom Powers, The Lake Superior Binational Forum was pleased to have Dr. Tom Powers present “Thinking about the Costs & Benefits of Mining: A Holistic Approach.” |
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Our thanks to the staff at WOJB Community Woodland Radio, Hayward, Wisconsin, for broadcasting the webinar in its entirety live on the radio and through its web site. The station is owned and operated by the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. |
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Join a growing group of people committed to protection and restoration of the Lake Superior ecosystem. Tell the Forum, in a simple questionnaire, how you may contribute to this important effort. As a Lake Superior Steward you will learn about issues and support public input about the Lake Superior Management Plan or LaMP.
If you choose, you will receive an electronic Newsletter and make worthwhile connections to help assure this great lake receives critical attention. Click here to reach the Lake Superior Stewards registration page. All information provided will remain confidential.
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Clean water is a basic right and necessity for all life. If you live near Lake Superior, you are fortunate to be living near one of the world’s largest lakes. Every day, each of the 600,000 human residents of the Lake Superior basin use water from the lake for drinking, home use, industrial use, or recreation. The lake is also essential for countless fish, birds,animals, and plants.
Lake Superior Day was started in the early 1990s to highlight the importance of this great water body to the basin’s environment and economy. The Lake Superior Binational Forum promotes this basin-wide event to highlight the special connections people have to this unique world treasure.
To show appreciation for the lake, people, communities, businesses, tribes, First Nations, churches and other groups celebrate Lake Superior Day each year on the third Sunday in July. Lake Superior Day is a time set aside to consider our connection to Lake Superior’s water. Each Lake Superior Day, all residents who live, work, play, and worship around the lake can organize events in their communities or take action in their homes, at their places of employment or in community groups to help protect the treasure that is Lake Superior.
Last year almost 50 groups and communities participated in some way, including special events such as dragon boat races, beach clean ups, musical concerts, library displays, church services, and signed proclamations that designate the third Sunday in July as Lake Superior Day. Reply to this email to request free color postcards, posters, factsheets, and bookmarks to give to Lake Superior supporters at your event.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum encourages residents of the Lake Superior Basin and beyond, to celebrate their connection to the lake.
Can you do something that symbolizes your own connection to the lake on that day?
Visit our Lake Superior Day Homepage.