Coastal Program - Great Lakes
Fact Sheets

Regional Fact Sheets

The Coastal Program provides cooperative partnerships that identify, restore and protect habitat in priority coastal areas. To achieve this goal, program supervisors within the Great Lakes basin work with a variety of partners, including other Federal and State agencies, local and tribal governments, businesses, conservation organizations and private landowners. 

 

 

 

The fact sheets listed below show a few of the
coastal projects that have been completed

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Caring for Our Coastal Habitats - Accomplishment Report (pdf 180kb)

An aggressive, nonnative variety of phragmites, also known as common reed, is threatening the ecological health of Michigan wetlands and coastal shorelines. This invasive variety of phragmites is becoming widespread throughout the Great Lakes and is displacing the native variety of the same species, as well as many other native plants. Click here to learn more (pdf 2 mb).

Coastal Awareness Exhibit at Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center

Service Joins Partners to Restore Lakeplain Prairies in Michigan, Prairie Fringed Orchid Benefits

Coastal Program Assists Native Aquatic Species Habitat Restoration in Antrim County, Michigan

Fish Passage on Graveyard Creek

St. Louis River Estuary Conservation Partnership

Service's Coastal Program Helps Control Invasive Speciesl on Grand Sable Dune, Other U.P. Lands

Mapping Groundwater Upwellings by Aerial Thermography

Coastal Program Assists Detroit River Lake Sturgeon Telemetry Project