New Provincial Parks Act Our parks are supposed to be wilderness sanctuaries, yet the trees are logged, the waterways polluted and the trucks keep rolling through. So, will the new Provincial Parks Act really put ecological integrity, first asks Lake Superior based freelance writer Conor Mihell? . . .

Stone-cold economy Times are tough in Northern Ontario. But is blasting the Lake Superior shoreline to produce gravel for Michigan highways really the answer? . . .

Great lakes AOCs ignored Attention to Ontario's worst sites of toxic pollution on the Great Lakes has steadily fallen from the public and governent radar over the past several decades. Federal Environment Commissioner slams government for inaction. . . .

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Univeristy of Michigan Michigan researchers study ballast free cargo ship design as a way to stem flow of new aquatic alien invasive species in to and out of Great Lakes watershed Read More...

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About Us

  Welcome to the newly established Lake Superior Conservancy and
  Watershed Council. LSCWC is an international non-profit
  organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainable health
  of the Lake Superior watershed.  Through basin-wide
  communication, education, scientific study, preservation and
  conservation activities we are dedicated to protecting the natural legacy of
  Lake Superior and its ecosystems.

  The Lake Superior basin contains some of the most important,
  diverse and pristine water resources on earth. The lake, its wetlands,
  and the lakes and rivers of its watershed provide homes for a myriad
  of creatures great and small. Lake Superior, in its four seasons, is a
  magnificent entity, binding nations by way of water, geography,
  geology, history, people, and bird migrations.

  However, despite the relatively small human population and the
  seemingly abundant freshwater surrounded by forested landscape
  with its many established national, state and provincial parks, the
  Lake Superior watershed faces enormous challenges in the 21st.
  Century. Its inherent fragility is often forgotten. And now that
  freshwater is this century’s most valuable commodity worldwide,
  huge pressures loom for the lake’s greatest asset, the water itself.

  The Lake Superior watershed is our extended Home and “the spirit
  of the land” is part of that Home. Our daughter, and all the children
  of tomorrow, have a birthright to inherit a world rich with the complex
  diversity of life, places where we only hear the sounds of nature, and
  the gift of clean air and water.

  We are dedicated to the LSCWC organization because we believe
  there still is an opportunity to make this a reality here in the Lake
  Superior watershed. It can, and will be, an example for the rest of
  the world.

  The ideas of establishing a conservancy and watershed council
  has evolved slowly. With the generous assistance of Lucidia Studios
  who designed this website, The Ontario Trillium Foundation who has
  granted start-up funding, Algoma Health Unit who donated surplus
  office furniture, Amber Poirier who applied her graphic design skills
  to create our new logo, and our Founding Members and supporters,
  we are ready to work.

  This is an ambitious conservation, preservation, watershed
  approach toward creating a healthy future for the greatest
  freshwater Lake on Earth. We invite you to join us.

  Gary McGuffin, President