This workshop highlights successful large scale, on-the-ground restoration efforts in several priority areas of the Great Lakes. Strategies will be shared for planning, financing, and articulating results from restoration projects in order to bring multiple societal benefits. Participants will brainstorm the next level of restoration impacts we would like to see from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

1. Implementing a Landscape-Based Conservation Program Russ Terry Director of Conservation Programs

2. Case Study: Western Lake Erie Watershed, MI Conservation Program : A mission-driven, science-based initiative that includes on-the-ground conservation, policy, partners , fund-raising and communication components.