Great Laker gathering

Welcome HOW folks, GLUE folks, and other friends of the Great Lakes - thanks for checking out the blog. We hope to take advantage of Great Lakes Day this year to spread the word online about Great Lakes Restoration and how people in the region can help out. We'll be hearing from campaign leaders about legislative efforts, reports and new findings, and what people in specific cities and areas are doing for the cause. We'll also be covering a report from Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative that examines how much local governments are spending to clean up the Lakes versus how much the federal government is spending.

For even more detailed information about restoration efforts and threats to the Great Lakes, check out Tiffany Pache's blogging at the Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives campaign site. Tiffany will also be reporting from DC this week, and we'll be linking back and forth often.

So grab our RSS feed, check out our YouTube page, and check back here throughout the next few days. Also leave some comments and let us know what you'd like to hear about.