Transcript LAMP 2000 - Lake Superior

The Lake Superior
Binational Program
• Initial and ongoing focus upon
bioaccumulative toxins.
• Basin-wide, ecosystem
approach using a Lakewide
Management Plan (LaMP).
• Partnership approach to
achieve goals.
A Vision for Lake Superior
We seek a Lake Superior Watershed … that is a
clean, safe environment where diverse life forms
exist in harmony; where the environment can
support and sustain economic development, and
where citizens are committed to regional
cooperation and a personal philosophy of
stewardship.
The Superior Work Group and
LaMP Implementation
• Chemicals of Concern
• Habitats & Species at
Risk
• Developing Regional
Sustainability
Chemicals of Concern
• A “Zero Discharge
Demonstration
Program.”
• Promotion of closedcycle industrial systems.
• Residential knowledge
and awareness of
household vectors.
Habitats & Species at Risk
• Protect and maintain
existing high-quality
habitat sites in the basin
and the ecosystem
processes that sustain
them.
• Restore degraded plant
and animal habitat.
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Developing Regional
Sustainability
Human use of the
Lake Superior
ecosystem by all
people in the
watershed should be
consistent with the
highest social and
scientific standards
for sustainable use.
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