Upper Midwest and Great Lakes to benefit from nearly $1 million investment in stakeholder-driven research

The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is investing $957,024 in funding this year to support five ongoing and six new stake-holder driven research projects targeting broad-scale natural resources issues across the upper Midwest and Great Lakes landscape.

“As members of the LCC community, state and federal natural resources agencies, along with private and non-profit partners are working side-by-side to address the most challenging stressors impacting our natural resources today,” said Becky Humphries, LCC co-chair and Director of Ducks Unlimited, Inc.’s Great Lakes/Atlantic Region. “Climate change, habitat fragmentation, shifts in land-use