The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative provided funding for a land purchase that established the 139-acre Lake Erie Bluffs Park, an ecologically significant site in Ohio that is home to 20 rare plant and animal species.

Dredging contaminated sediment in Wisconsin’s Sheboygan River has been an important process to restore fish and wildlife habitat.

A federal grant helped establish the nation’s first tribal national park along the shores of Lake Superior, near Bayfield, Wis.

A half-mile of city street in West Michigan will reduce the volume of polluted stormwater that reaches White Lake, which is a Great Lakes Area of Concern.

The replacement of a failed pump structure at the Nayanquing Point State Wildlife Area in eastern Michigan has restored a large wetland, improved wildlife habitat and increased waterfowl hunting opportunities.

Scientists have restored 1,000 acres of moose foraging habitat near Lake Superior and are working on other wildlife management activities in an effort to sustain the moose herd in eastern Minnesota.

A new way of trapping sea lamprey in the St. Mary’s River enabled scientists to kill more of the invasive species, which will bolster desirable fish populations in Lake Huron.

The 2012 helicopter-assisted placement of 126 large pine trees in a two-mile stretch of the Au Sable River created new fish habitat in one of the Midwest’s premier trout streams.