Wildlife Habitat Council - The St. Clair River Basin Project

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BASF Offers Invasive Vegetation Management Matching Grants
Deadline for Application: July 12, 2007!

BASF Professional Vegetation Management (ProVM) support professional, ethical and responsible vegetation management. ProVM programs combine the most current training, tools and techniques to apply the lowest possible active ingredient and achieve the best possible results. ProVM also recognizes environmental standards and provides habitat-oriented solutions, such as low-volume herbicides that safely and effectively eliminate unwanted vegetation and reduce the potential risk to habitat associated with other methods.

BASF will provide matching grants in 2007 to land managers who use herbicides to control invasive plant species, and who will be hiring a professional applicator. Priority will be given to integrated vegetation management programs that will use a BASF product for either terrestrial or aquatic invasive plant control.

Funding can serve as a non-federal match for other grants, and must be applied toward labor for application.

Presentations from WHC Workshop
on Controlling Phragmites

Remember: late summer and fall are the prime time to attack common reed, Phragmites australis. If you missed our workshop or just want a refresher while you're making plans, check out the presentations on line.

Scientists Coordinate Research to Benefit
Wildlife in the Lake Huron to Lake Erie Corridor

Are there lake whitefish and lake sturgeon spawning in the St. Clair or Detroit river? How many, and where? Where did these much-diminished natives flourish in the past, and how might we restore bottom habitat and water quality to support them?

Those are among questions addressed by the Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative (HEC), a research partnership initiated by the U. S. Geological Survey. HEC involves all levels of government, plus non-governmental organizations, from both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. The Wildlife Habitat Council is a member of the HEC Steering Committee, as are several members of WHC’s local project advisory committee.

Within the waters and wetlands of the Huron to Erie corridor, HEC focuses research to support:

Restoring habitat for native aquatic species,
Reducing the effects of invasive species, and
Maintaining healthy and diverse ecosystems.

Learn more about the research and habitat efforts.

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