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.

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.

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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 closed-cycle 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 Human use of the Lake Superior Lake Superior ecosystem by all ecosystem by all people in the people in the watershed should be watershed should be consistent with the consistent with the highest social and highest social and scientific standards scientific standards for sustainable use. for sustainable use.

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