Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 CONTENTS
Foreword ...... 1 Governor Jim Doyle Apostle Islands Wilderness ...... 2 Harald (Jordy) Jordahl Sustainable Development in the Menomonee Valley ...... 4 Mary Beth Driscoll Protecting Beach Health in Door County ...... 6 Vinni Chomeau Lake Michigan Communities Reinvent for Tourism ...... 8 Jennifer Garrett Coastal Performance Indicators ...... 10 Elizabeth Mountz Waterfront Redevelopment . . . . .12 Andrew Savagian State and Federal Coordination on Wisconsin’s Great Lakes . . . . .14 Kathleen Angel 2005 Wisconsin Coastal Management Program Grants . . .16 Acknowledgements ...... 20
On the Cover A sailing charter cruises among the Apostle Islands in the blue waters of Lake Superior. FOREWORD Governor Jim Doyle
Dear Friend of Wisconsin’s Great Lakes: The 1,100 miles of been adopted by the Great Lakes Mayors and the The responsibility to restore and protect the Great Great Lakes shoreline in Great Lakes Commission. Among them: Lakes is not limited to state and local government. Wisconsin shape who We call upon the federal government to recognize • Confront the challenge of invasive species and we are in this state. the value of our Great Lakes and the influence they guard against ballast water discharges from ocean- Lake Superior and Lake have on our country’s welfare. We need a going ships that can damage the Lakes forever; Michigan are critically commitment of federal resources comparable to important for commerce, • Protect the sustainable use of our water resources those provided for ecological restoration in the Gulf safe drinking water and while confirming that the States retain authority of Mexico, the Everglades and San Francisco Bay. countless recreational over water use and diversions of Great Lakes waters; One of Wisconsin’s—and America’s—greatest opportunities. The Lakes • Ensure the waters stay open as highways of leaders was profoundly aware of the value of the are a freshwater resource commerce while protecting their fragile ecology. Great Lakes. Former Governor and U.S. Senator that is unique on our planet, supporting thousands Gaylord Nelson passed away in 2005 after a life of species—including our own. While the Governors together play an important dedicated to many important issues including role, the strength of our recent efforts has been the My new Conserve Wisconsin environmental agenda protection of the Great Lakes. I was honored to partnership of our regional collaboration. A robust is a broad package of legislation and executive attend a ceremony in August naming the Gaylord working relationship has developed with the states, orders that will safeguard Wisconsin’s great Nelson Wilderness area within the Apostle Islands. our region’s mayors, Native American Tribes, environmental legacy. In addition to initiatives to Gaylord Nelson laid out a clear vision for the the federal government and nongovernmental conserve our lands and ensure a sustainable energy environment in 1970 when he founded Earth Day: organizations concerned about our natural resources. future, the agenda includes many initiatives to “Our goal is an environment of decency, quality and protect our waters. We will regulate ballast water in In December 2004, I joined hundreds of people mutual respect for all human beings and all other ocean-going ships and work to stop the spread of representing stakeholders from across the Great living creatures — an environment without ugliness, invasive species. Lakes basin to develop a restoration and without ghettos, without poverty, without protection plan for our Great Lakes. Our initial As the Co-Chair of the Council of Great Lakes discrimination, without hunger and without war. draft action plan has been completed and is now Governors, I am working with other governors to Our goal is a decent environment in its deepest and available for public review and input. It calls for develop and implement policies on a region-wide broadest sense.” greater investment of resources and better basis to restore and protect the Great Lakes for coordination of efforts to protect and enhance A critical component of this goal is the restoration future generations. our Great Lakes. Working together, we can make and protection of the Great Lakes. I invite you to In 2004, nine priorities were identified by the eight a difference. For more information about the join me in working toward the fulfillment of Great Lakes governors for restoration and protection Great Lakes Regional Collaboration, please visit Gaylord Nelson’s vision. of the Lakes. Since that time, these priorities have http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/collaboration/.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 1 The process to protect APOSTLE ISLANDS WILDERNESS the Apostle Islands took Harald (Jordy) Jordahl decades of work and the Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands archipelago in The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore was Ashland and Bayfield Counties is among the most established on September 26, 1970 “to conserve leadership of U.S. Senator beautiful and culturally rich places in our state. and develop for the benefit, inspiration, education, recreational use, and enjoyment of the public.” Gaylord Nelson. The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a unique collection of rugged coasts, deep green Twenty-one islands in the Apostles are included in forests, sea caves and undeveloped sand beaches. the National Lakeshore managed by the National Native Americans, voyageurs, loggers, farmers, Park Service. The 69,372 acre park includes 21 commercial fishermen and people working in islands and the waters 1/4 mile around their quarries all played a role in the Islands’ history. shores. A 12-mile stretch of mainland in Bayfield Starting with the Ojibwe people—the original County is also included. Madeline Island, the inhabitants of the area—the Islands have remaining island, is mostly privately owned provided food, trade and now recreation for although the State of Wisconsin manages the generations of people. Its six historic light stations highly popular Big Bay State Park on its shores. are the most found in any national park. Many Although part of the Lakeshore, community still provide beacons to ships on Lake Superior leaders believed an official federal Wilderness and some remain open to visitors. designation would also provide permanent Today, the cold blue waters of Lake Superior are protection for the Islands’ unique natural features. covered in summer months by visitors in kayaks, Some form of Wilderness designation for the sailboats and motorboats while the Apostle Islands was considered for decades—even before Islands’ forests have tents and trails for hikers. the federal Wilderness Act was passed in 1964 and Nearly 200,000 people visit every year, a number before the Apostles became a part of the National that has grown as the popularity of kayaking has Park system in 1970. increased over the last three decades. The process to protect the Apostle Islands took decades of work and the leadership of Governor and later U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson. It required nearly 10 years of work by Senator Nelson and a large group of supporters to finally pass federal legislation protecting nearly all of the islands.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 2 The National Park Service initiated a formal three Of the remaining 18 park islands, eight will be year Wilderness study in 2001. Strong community managed entirely as Wilderness while the other feedback supported continuing to protect and ten are more than 90 percent Wilderness. manage the Apostle Islands’ natural resources and Wilderness status ensures that our children and maintaining access to the Islands. Dozens of grandchildren find these places much the same public meetings were held and thousands of when visiting them far into the future. public comments were received over the three All of the park’s public docks, lighthouses and years. After formal alternatives were presented for facilities where visitors congregate are excluded public review, more than 99 percent of the formal from the Wilderness designation. None of the public comments supported some form of waters in the Lakeshore are included— Wilderness protection. guaranteeing continued access to the Islands by In 2004, with the leadership of Senator Russ boat and without impact on existing rules for Feingold and Congressman Dave Obey, the U.S. snowmobilers who have access to the frozen Congress passed a law designating much of the surface of Lake Superior in the winter. This Islands as an official Wilderness Area under the balance shows the possibility of protecting wild protection of the 1964 Wilderness Act. In so places as Wilderness while also protecting areas for doing, Congress honored the man most visitors for cultural history and interpretation. responsible for protecting the Apostles by naming Park Superintendent Bob Krumenaker noted the area the Gaylord A. Nelson Wilderness. public comment on the Wilderness study The designation of 35,000 acres—about 80% of confirmed what “Senator Nelson instinctively the land area—as official Wilderness makes knew all along—that these islands were meant to permanent the current management for most of be visited, enjoyed and experienced, but that they For more information about the Apostle Islands National the Islands. Sand, Basswood and Long Islands are shouldn’t ever be allowed to lose the wild and Lakeshore and the Gaylord A. Nelson Wilderness, visit http://www.nps.gov/apis/home.htm or call the Park excluded from the Wilderness because of their primitive character that brings people here in Headquarters at (715) 779-3397. highly visible evidence of human history and use. the first place.” These islands will be used to provide visitors with Harald (Jordy) Jordahl is Director, Intergovernmental Relations, The Wilderness designation will protect this vision. more opportunities for cultural interpretation and at the Wisconsin Department of Administration. He can be reached at (608) 261-7520 or [email protected]. educational materials.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE The Menomonee River MENOMONEE VALLEY Valley offers a compelling Mary Beth Driscoll story for achieving At 1,500 acres, the largest collection of brownfield volunteered to create drawings and plans. properties in Wisconsin continues on the path to Their results—published as “A Vision for Smart environmental restoration restoration. Broad and sustained support from Growth”—gave form and substance to the vision entities like the Wisconsin Coastal Management for sustainable development. in urbanized areas. Program (WCMP) has generated significant To further accelerate the vision for sustainable progress on a long list of objectives in Milwaukee’s development, Sixteenth Street Community Health Menomonee River Valley: environmental Center (SSCHC) assembled a broad community remediation, stormwater treatment, flood partnership to host a design competition in abatement, improved water quality and natural 2002—sponsored in part by the National areas incorporating habitat restoration. Endowment for the Arts, the WCMP and With partnership and imagination, this foundations—that focused on a specific 140 acre contaminated corridor is being transformed into parcel that lies in the shadows of Miller Park. a community destination featuring creative The winning submission, created by a team lead environmental restoration and new economic by Wenk Associates of Denver (CO), includes an development. Guided by principles of sustainable industrial park that will provide family-supporting development, this long-term collaborative effort jobs while adding to the City’s property tax base. is attracting high-quality investors and family- While meeting the city’s immediate economic supporting jobs capable of adding long-term value needs, the Wenk plan also allows for the and pride to the community. integration of natural and open-space elements including a stormwater park that prevents water Starting with a 1999 U.S. Environmental pollution, a community green and the Hank Protection Agency-sponsored Sustainable Aaron State Trail. Development Design Charrette, or visioning exercise, new ideas were generated for With continued encouragement from the WCMP, development plans that would accommodate the national design competition’s winning concept sustainability and smart growth objectives. has moved much closer to reality with the The charrette involved over 140 local architects, creation of detailed drawings and engineering engineers and planning professionals from the specifications for the stormwater park, including public and private sectors who engaged in an innovative stormwater treatment train that brainstorming and listening sessions and mimics regional habitat types. The stormwater
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 4 park provides the necessary non-point pollution The Menomonee Valley Benchmarking Initiative its central location and other attributes have control to allow a portion of the parcel to be (MVBI) will track and study environmental, already drawn investors such as The Sigma Group, densely developed as an industrial park, which in economic and community development indicators a private sector firm that has built a highly turn will bring jobs back to the Valley and give a to gauge impacts of redevelopment in the Valley, attractive, sustainable facility in the heart of the boost to the regional economy. The stormwater including changes to water quality and aquatic Valley. The enthusiastic response Sigma has park provides the ecological benefits of habitat habitat. The Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc. received to its new offices portends well for the restoration and species diversity along with a (MVP), SSCHC and the University of Wisconsin- mutual benefits that can be achieved as the community commons that provides active and Milwaukee Great Lakes Water Institute have Valley’s environment is cleaned up and new passive recreational opportunities. collaborated on a WCMP-supported project that family-supporting jobs improve the health and will assist the MVBI in measuring changes to the livability of the surrounding community. Designed in concert with the new Canal Street Menomonee River. extension, construction of the stormwater park From a more strategic perspective, it is clear has begun so that it will be capable of treating This partnership has deployed water quality that the revitalization of the Menomonee River stormwater from Canal Street starting in 2006. monitoring technology in the lower reaches of the Valley offers a compelling story for achieving The stormwater park is already serving as a Milwaukee River basin including two devices in environmental restoration in urbanized areas that demonstration site by influencing other similar the Menomonee River. These sampling points will already have the infrastructure needed to support projects, resulting in a more comprehensive provide critical data to the MVBI while also quality development and are close to an available approach to water resource management making water quality information available to the workforce. This pattern of development reduces throughout the entire Menomonee Valley. general public through a network of kiosks and pressure on farmland and existing open spaces, and web-based applications. protects water quality and water recharge areas that Principles from the Menomonee River Valley are under enormous pressure from sprawling Sustainable Design Guidelines have provided the Although redevelopment of Milwaukee’s development. The story of the Menomonee River private sector development community with Menomonee River Valley has only recently begun, Valley can play out up and down Wisconsin’s performance standards for magnificent Great Lakes shorelines. ecological enhancement, restorative techniques and a Mary Beth Driscoll is Manager of Collaborative Projects, “how to” for employing a Department of Environmental Health, at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center. She can be reached at Best Management Practices (414) 672-1353 or [email protected]. approach to address these sustainability goals.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 5 PROTECTING BEACH HEALTH It is essential to IN DOOR COUNTY monitor and improve Vinni Chomeau near shore water Door County’s beaches draw millions of people team of conservationists, health professionals, with diverse interests to the water’s edge: microbiologists, ecologists, limnologists, quality for human swimmers, limnologists, boaters, bird lovers, statisticians and shoreline/beach experts analyze fishermen, home owners and sunset watchers. and interpret the beach data. health protection, All of these persons are connected by a common Door County has beaches with sand and rock desire for themselves and future generations to water recreation and substrates with various degrees of water enjoy the thrills and pleasures of Door County circulation based on their location within bays beaches without suffering the ill effects of ecological integrity. and the predominant wind directions. Some of contaminated water. the beaches are in urban areas with stormwater Door County is an ecological haven for runoff on the beach and others are in rural areas biodiversity. It provides habitat to many threatened with no stormwater runoff. All of these different and endangered species, is a destination for nearly beach characteristics make determining potential 2.2 million visitors per year and is the home of contamination sources an individual and 28,000 residents. The health of Door County’s challenging pursuit at each beach, and establish 250 miles of Lake Michigan and Green Bay Door County as an excellent site for researching shoreline and near shore waters is invaluable to beach contamination sources and persistence. the county and the State of Wisconsin. With assistance from Wisconsin Coastal In 2003, the Door County Public Health Management Program (WCMP), the SWCD in Department (DCPHD) began regular monitoring 2003 conducted watershed surveys for every of 28 public beaches utilizing Federal Beach Act monitored beach. The surveys included mapping funds. Additionally, the Door County Soil and the beach watershed and stormwater conveyance Water Conservation Department (SWCD) began systems, determining beach slope and substrate, the task of determining the sources of beach quantifying land use and identifying potential contamination at all 28 monitored beaches. contamination sources. With a WCMP grant and Each agency contracts with the University of donations from local governments and Wisconsin-Oshkosh Biology and Microbiology organizations, SWCD used the 2003 beach data Department to collect the monitoring and source to enact a water sampling project in 2004 with identification water samples. A comprehensive the sole purpose of identifying beach contamination sources.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 6 In 2004, SWCD water sampling for source rainfall. The City of Sturgeon identification included expanded sampling at five Bay and the Village of high priority beaches and a system of rain gauges Ephraim have extended the within five miles of every beach. Source source identification water identification sampling included spatial sampling sampling into the stormwater for E. coli in 12, 24 and 48 inches of water. and surface water conveyance systems to isolate sources of The results showed that E. coli concentrations contamination. The City of significantly decreased as water depth increased. Sturgeon Bay and the Town The average of the samples taken in 48 inches was of Gibraltar have made below the swim advisory level of 235 MPN per improvements to their 100 ml of water, revealing that the sources of stormwater discharge areas on beach contamination are localized from the beach to improve swimmer onshore/watershed sources. Analysis of the rainfall safety and beach health. events at several beaches with stormwater outlet pipes revealed that E. coli concentrations stayed In 2005—with the assistance of a WCMP The beach contamination source identification above 235 MPN for eight to 12 hours after rain grant and local donations—thirteen beaches project has provided the county one method of events of 0.5 inches. are being sampled for contamination source accessing and abating non-point pollution identification using the same 2004 methods sources. It is essential to the residents, tourists and Bird populations were observed using both bird with an emphasis on isolating sample locations ecosystem in Door County to monitor and improve count and bird waste count methods. Bird during rainfall events to determine specific near shore water quality for human health populations were correlated with E. coli sources of contamination. protection, water recreation and ecological integrity. concentrations at selected beaches. Genetic codes and the antibiotic resistance of E. coli isolates that The efforts of Door County to ensure the safety Door County Interim Beach Report is available at were recovered from five beaches revealed that of water users and protect this valuable resource http://map.co.door.wi.us/swcd/BeachInterimReport.pdf there were human and avian sources of E. coli have not gone unnoticed. After an unfavorable Vinni Chomeau is a conservationist with the Door County Soil present at all five beaches. Four of the five beaches review of their beach monitoring activities in and Water Conservation Department. She can be reached at had a significant amount of human derived E. coli. 2003 by the Natural Resource Defense Council, (920) 746-2214 or [email protected]. this comprehensive regimen of water quality As a result of the 2004 source identification sampling and bacterial source inventory has project, two beaches in the City of Sturgeon Bay placed the County on its Beach Buddy list. now issue pre-emptive beach closures based on
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 7 LAKE MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES Waterfront communities REINVENT FOR TOURISM are transitioning Jennifer Garrett from manufacturing Travelers spent nearly $12 billion in Wisconsin Paula Touhey, director of the Kenosha Public last year, and it is easy to see why. The range of Museum, says residents are proud to tout their to vacation spots. activities, accommodations and amenities makes it city as a destination that offers unique shopping, easy for everyone from earthy campers to great restaurants, good fishing and nature. “Our highbrow art lovers to find a place to visit, rest, location between Chicago and Milwaukee is ideal. play and enjoy. People can easily enjoy the lakefront, and costs in this area are reasonable.” However, tourism does not happen by accident. Even lakeshore destinations—blessed with Racine. Racine, well known for manufacturing, beautiful scenery and access to fishing, sailing and is also making strides with its cultural tourism other water-based activities—must constantly industry. Jessica Zalewski, marketing specialist for reinvent themselves to remain attractive and the Racine Art Museum, says the new museum accessible to visitors. sends a clear message about the importance of investing in tourism as a means of economic Some waterfront communities are transitioning growth. “If there is more to see and do, there are from manufacturing to vacation spots. Others clearly more reasons to visit for a longer period of are focused on small niches, like nature or time and more often.” cultural tourism. Longstanding favorites continue to improve and evolve as they earn Milwaukee. Milwaukee has been a hotbed of widespread attention and attract visitors from tourism development thanks to a $2.2 billion around the globe. boom that includes the stunning Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kenosha. Once an automotive manufacturing Milwaukee Brewers’ new home at Miller Park, center, nearly ninety percent of Kenosha’s the Potawatomi Bingo Casino and the Riverwalk. lakefront is today dedicated to public recreation in The newest attraction on Milwaukee’s lakefront the forms of parks, gardens, trails, beaches and will be Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin due to fishing piers. Getting from attraction to attraction open in 2006. The redeveloped municipal pier is easy thanks to the two-mile electric streetcar will feature a science, economics and technology that connects the historic district, downtown museum including special exhibits on freshwater business district, parks and marina. and the Great Lakes. Pier Wisconsin will also be
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 8 the summer home to S/V Denis Sullivan, a World War II submarine USS Cobia, now an local tourism industry. Kay Eaton, owner of Eaton 137-foot replica of a 19th century Great Lakes international memorial and historic landmark. Design Studio which publishes the Marinette schooner that provides scenic tours and serves as The Wisconsin Maritime Museum recently County Visitors Guide, says Marinette is focusing a floating classroom for water and conservation finished a multi-million-dollar addition, and on a narrow segment of the traveling population programs. carferry travelers on their way to Luddington, with sport fishing and natural attractions. “We Michigan, embark from Manitowoc. realize that we’re not a Wisconsin Dells that has Port Washington. As long-time manufacturing amazing water park attractions, but we do have businesses closed, Port Washington balanced its Kewaunee County and the Door Peninsula. nature and that really is a nice draw. We like to changing economy by investing in tourism. One has to look no further than Door County call ourselves ‘Nature’s Waterpark.’” Concentrated efforts to capitalize on the city’s to understand how tourism can drive a local New England-style maritime charm have worked economy. The popular lakefront destination draws Special Events. Large—sometimes as the local tourism industry has outpaced nature lovers to its beaches, state parks, bikeways international—events can drive tourism industry statewide tourism growth. Kathy Tank, executive and waters. Art lovers can take in live theatre development locally and statewide. For instance, director of the Port Washington Tourism Council, performances or peruse more than 80 galleries and the 2004 PGA Championship held at Kohler’s says the community has learned to embrace museums. Sturgeon Bay, Algoma and Kewaunee Whistling Straits golf course impacted numerous tourism—and not just to fuel the economy. are employing their well-deserved reputations as communities along Lake Michigan. Hotels, resorts “A town that is attractive to tourists also adds great fishing communities to attract sport travelers and restaurants filled up fast when Tiger Woods greatly to the quality of life of its residents.” with top-notch charter fishing. and the rest of the golf world showed up. Manitowoc. During World War II, the Marinette. Marinette is using its abundant Regional and worldwide visitors are attracted to the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company built waterfalls and parks to develop a nature-based beauty and history of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan 28 submarines for the Pacific shores. Coastal communities are using their assets War effort. Now Manitowoc’s to meet the needs of the traveling public and shipbuilding heritage is at the improve the quality of life for residents. heart of its tourism industry. Jennifer Garrett is a freelance writer. For more information Every year, thousands of about Great Lakes tourism opportunities or to receive people head to Wisconsin’s a copy of the Harbor Towns brochure, please contact the Maritime Capitol to visit the Wisconsin Department of Tourism at 1-800-432-TRIP or www.travelwisconsin.com.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 9 Coastal programs are COASTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS required to develop Elizabeth Mountz performance measurement How should the nation determine whether it is easy task since the Coastal Zone Management Act successfully managing coastal areas? How should (CZMA)—the legislation authorizing federal systems to evaluate limited resources be allocated among numerous support for state CZM programs—prescribes a coastal priorities such as habitat restoration, coastal wide range of goals and objectives. effectiveness. hazards and providing public access to the coast? However, the CZMA was also designed to give These are the types of questions that Congress each state or territory the flexibility to develop a and the federal Office of Management and management program best suited for its specific Budget have asked the national network of state needs. The 34 state and territory CZM programs and territory Coastal Zone Management (CZM) encompass a wide range of variability in climate, programs. In an era of increasing governmental geography, cultural norms and political structure. accountability, federally-funded programs are For example, the Puerto Rico CZM program required to develop performance measurement works in a tropical ecosystem that is dramatically systems to evaluate program effectiveness. different from California’s Pacific coastline which in turn differs from Wisconsin’s Great Lakes Over the past three years, the National Oceanic shoreline. Regardless of these differences, each and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and state and territory CZM program works to the 34 state and territory CZM programs have protect, restore and ensure responsible worked to develop a system of performance development of its share of the nation’s coastal indicators—using measurable and quantifiable communities and resources. data—that will tell the story of coastal management in the United States. This system is In 2003, a NOAA and state CZM program referred to as the National Coastal Performance working group developed a draft list of Measurement System. The Wisconsin Coastal approximately fifty performance indicators based Management Program (WCMP) has played a upon six key areas within the CZMA: leading role in this process, participating in both • public access developing and testing the proposed performance • coastal habitat indicators for coastal zone management. • coastal water quality Developing Performance Indicators. The process • coastal hazards of developing performance indicators first sought • coastal dependent uses and community to define objectives for which CZM programs are development responsible. At first glance, this seems to be an • government coordination and decision making
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 10 In addition, the working group developed a list of Botany Department to adapt Species Dominance contextual indicators that will provide insight to Index indicators—originally developed through the socio-economic and environmental trends the Great Lakes Environment Indicators project— influencing coastal management needs at both for use as coastal management habitat indicators. state and national scales. For example, the Next Steps. In July 2005, all state and territory contextual indicators ‘population density’ and CZM programs began tracking performance ‘percentage of population change’ demonstrate the indicators to quantify the national impact of the extent of human-generated pressures upon the Coastal Zone Management Program. During the coastal environment. The WCMP brought a Great next year, the programs will concentrate on Lakes perspective to the working group ensuring collecting information on the public access and that the resulting indicators would be applicable to government coordination and decision making both Great Lakes and oceanic coastal systems. indicators. The set of indicators will be expanded to Testing the Indicators. In 2004, the WCMP was include coastal habitats and coastal water quality. one of seven state CZM programs to volunteer for By the third year of the program, state and a year-long pilot program to test the usefulness territory CZM programs will track coastal hazards and feasibility of the draft indicators. The WCMP and coastal dependent uses and community focused on testing the coastal habitat, public development indicators providing a strong picture access and coastal hazards draft indicators by of the condition of coastal management across the partnering with programs such as the University United States. A list of the performance indicators of Wisconsin-Madison Sea Grant Institute and and contextual indicators are available online at the Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/cpd/welcome. Wetland Inventory program. html. The addition of the National Coastal During this phase, the WCMP worked to The WCMP will continue to work with Management Performance System will provide determine whether existing data sources could be NOAA and the other Great Lakes CZM programs data specifically tailored to the needs of coastal used to answer questions such as the number of to coordinate on a regional level. Data and policy makers and resource managers at the state, acres of coastal wetlands in Wisconsin and the methodologies will be shared between state regional and national levels. acreage of coastal wetlands impacted by permitting CZM programs and with other regional indicator decisions within any given year. The WCMP also initiatives such as the State of the Lakes Elizabeth Mountz is a Coastal Management Specialist worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Ecosystem Conference and the Great Lakes Management. She can be reached at (301) 713-3155 x148 Environment Indicators project. or [email protected].
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 11 Brownfields redevelopment WATERFRONT REDEVELOPMENT can raise the value of Andrew Savagian surrounding property by Our coasts are the places where much of the valuable green space. Shoreline redevelopment business of humanity takes root. They are the is typically at a higher density, provides as much as 30 percent. points where water greets the land, where societies ready-made transportation routes and often saps are gathered up and brought together into fewer natural resources. communities, and where the booms and busts of The State can play an important role in successful history have played out for centuries. waterfront redevelopment projects. In Wisconsin, Along our Great Lakes shorelines, Wisconsin has recent figures show that for every one dollar spent marked the passage of time through Native in State brownfield grant money, 14 dollars of populations, the influx of early European settlers local funding was invested in redevelopment. and the rise of manufacturing industries. Today, These State/local collaborations are creating many of our cities are dealing with polluted places success stories across Wisconsin. where industries ran their course. Sheboygan’s Blue Harbor Resort. A high profile The empty factories, abandoned warehouses and coastal redevelopment is playing out on the old gas stations that dot the Great Lakes landscape western shore of Lake Michigan in the City of present unique and often difficult issues. They are, Sheboygan. however, issues that must be dealt with before In the 1880’s, the city’s C. Reiss Coal Company communities can reclaim and redevelop these opened its doors for business. More than 100 coastal eyesores now labeled “brownfields.” years later, the company ceased operations and left The Benefits of Coastal Redevelopment. a waterfront property with environmental A combination of common sense and data are contamination problems. driving our coastal cities, suburbs and small towns to tackle brownfields. Communities benefit financially by replacing vacant properties with thriving businesses. Recent studies have shown that brownfields redevelopment can raise the value of surrounding commercial property by as much as ten percent and residential property by 30 percent. Waterfront redevelopment also helps protect public and environmental health and preserve
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 12 City officials stepped in with new brownfield Working with a host of partners—including Even more impressive is the City’s ability to blend tools available through the Department of the DNR, Department of Commerce, the green space preservation with economics, creating Commerce and Department of Natural Resources U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the a community destination where 90 percent of (DNR). Utilizing the DNR’s technical assistance, Urban Land Institute and private consultants— Kenosha’s coastal area is accessible to the public. the City was able to clean up the soil and Kenosha officials began piecing together an Waterfront Revitalization Awareness. The success groundwater contamination, remove leftover impressive array of redevelopment tools and of brownfield redevelopments depends upon the storage tanks and begin redevelopment. In technical assistance. input and support of citizens who live and work addition to a Commerce brownfield grant of $1.1 With more than $2.5 million in funding from along our Great Lakes coasts. With that in mind, million and a DNR Land Recycling Loan, the city these federal and state agencies, Kenosha began Wisconsin state agencies teamed up with the invested an additional $3 million on cleanup. remediation by removing eleven underground Great Lakes Commission to host the 2005 Today the former waterfront eyesore is home to storage tanks and more than 6,000 cubic yards Waterfront Revitalization Conference at Blue Blue Harbor Resort, a 183-room hotel and of contaminated soil. Harbor Resort. The meeting drew 200 individuals conference center with more than 350 employees. seeking to redevelop contaminated Great Lakes Cleanup and redevelopment took several years, The project not only provides an increased tax waterfronts. but today the City boasts two new museums, bike base of more than $100 million, it also contains a and walking trails, condominium developments Conference participants learned about success beach restoration area created with funding from and a trolley service to downtown. Not only has stories like those in Kenosha and Sheboygan. They the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program. the harbor redevelopment created jobs, coastal also discussed how community participation has The property is the centerpiece to Sheboygan’s property values have also increased $50 million helped hundreds of cities all over the Great Lakes coastal redevelopment plan and an excellent since 1989 and nearby property values increased turn their blighted shorelines into coastal treasures. example of balancing commercial interests with by more than $13 million. public access and green space preservation. Future conferences and a comprehensive, statewide “one-stop” web site are in the works. Kenosha’s Harbor Redevelopment. Part of the Everyone involved in coastal redevelopment fast-growing corridor running from Chicago to believes this momentum will bring new ideas to Milwaukee, Kenosha had one of Wisconsin’s most Great Lakes communities, each one dedicated to troublesome coastal brownfields. In the early 1990s, the goal of making coastal brownfields a place to much of its shoreline was taken up with an old gather once more. American Motors manufacturing plant including more than 40 acres of abandoned buildings, Andrew Savagian is a Brownfields Outreach Specialist with the underground tanks and contaminated land. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He can be reached at (608) 261-6422 or [email protected].
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 13 STATE AND FEDERAL COORDINATION Wisconsin’s coastal zone ON WISCONSIN’S GREAT LAKES is best managed when all Kathleen Angel levels of government Enjoy and protect Wisconsin’s Great Lakes. This Housing and Urban Development, for example, simple statement guides the Wisconsin Coastal may be subject to federal consistency review. work together. Management Program (WCMP) and underlies all Reasonably Foreseeable Effects on Land or Water of its efforts. The WCMP is best known for Uses or Natural Resources. Not all federal actions providing matching grants to communities and require federal consistency review. In addition to organizations working on economic development involving the federal government, the activity and preservation projects along Lake Michigan and must have reasonably foreseeable effects on land Lake Superior. The WCMP’s work, however, goes or water uses or natural resources in the coastal well beyond funding and grants management. An zone. Uses include recreation, fishing, floodplain equally important task is monitoring the federal management and historic preservation. Resources government’s activities in the coastal zone through include biological and physical entities such as air, a process called federal consistency review. rivers, lakes, aquifers, minerals, plants, fish, Federal consistency is an agreement between a reptiles and mammals. state and the federal government. It comes from The Coastal Zone. Federal consistency review is Section 307 of the Coastal Zone Management Act subject to the physical boundaries of the coastal (CZMA), the federal legislation under which the zone. States delineate their coastal zones in WCMP formed. Federal consistency requires that different ways. In Wisconsin, the coastal zone federal actions that will have reasonably foreseeable consists of the 15 counties bordering Lakes effects on land or water uses or natural resources of Michigan and Superior. All direct actions that the coastal zone must be consistent with a state’s involve federal development projects and many federally-approved Coastal Management Program. federal permitting actions are automatically Federal Actions. Federal consistency review subject to federal consistency review if they occur applies only when the federal government takes in Wisconsin’s coastal zone. Even if the planned an action. Actions include those taken directly by activity is outside of the 15 counties, the action or on behalf of the federal government, such as may be subject to federal consistency review if the dredging, construction or planning. Actions also project will likely affect the land, water or other include indirect activities such as federal resources of the coastal zone. permitting. Federal financial assistance activities The Review Process. If the proposed activity is a are also subject to federal consistency review. direct action, the federal agency will determine Applications for funds from the Department of whether there are any foreseeable coastal effects.
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 14 If coastal effects are reasonably foreseeable, the The enforceable policies are a part of the federal agency will make its own consistency WCMP’s federally-approved program. That is, the determination. The agency must give notice to the federal government has reviewed the policies and WCMP at least 90 days before the activity begins. agreed to abide by them. Furthermore, the The WCMP then has 60 days to concur with or WCMP does not develop regulations of its own; object to the federal agency’s determination. its enforceable policies come from state statutes and the regulations developed by other agencies In the case of a federal license or permit activity, such as the Department of Transportation and the the individual, organization or government agency Department of Natural Resources. As statutes and applying for the federal permit must submit a rules evolve over time, the WCMP must revise its Consistency Certification to the approving federal government, local governments and individuals. policies in response. The WCMP is currently agency and the WCMP. The program then has six Furthermore, because the WCMP’s enforceable updating its enforceable policies. months to respond. The federal agency may not policies are tied to the Wisconsin Statutes, rules grant the permit or license until the consistency Consistency as a Coordination Tool. Federal and regulations, the federal consistency process process is complete. consistency protects Wisconsin’s coastal resources requires coordination between state agencies. by requiring the federal government to follow When reviewing a proposed project, the applicant, Federal consistency requirements also help the state regulations when taking actions that may federal agency and WCMP will look to the WCMP stay up to date with projects throughout affect our Great Lakes. The federal government WCMP’s enforceable policies. These are the state the coastal zone. Program staff uses this information may not approve permits or licenses that violate laws, rules and regulations that the WCMP has to share innovative ideas and best practices identified state regulations. identified as related to coastal uses and resources. throughout coastal communities. The WCMP is They can be found on the WCMP’s website at Federal consistency also encourages cooperation also better able to make informed decisions on http://www.coastal.wisconsin.gov. between the federal government, state grant requests and provide useful technical assistance to local governments and organizations. Wisconsin’s coastal zone is best managed when all levels of government work together. Federal consistency creates an environment where all may enjoy and protect Wisconsin’s Great Lakes.
Kathleen Angel is Federal Consistency Coordinator with the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program. She can be reached at (608) 267-7988 or [email protected].
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 15 2005 WISCONSIN COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM GRANTS
Project Name Facilitating Wetland Restoration in Wisconsin’s Grantee Coastal Counties WCMP Award Wisconsin Wetlands Association Project Description $29,800 Five wetland restoration workshops in coastal counties, a web-based restoration guide and an Coastwide online list of restoration professionals. Project Assessing Cladophora Management Strategies Contact: Ms. Becky Abel, (608) 250-9971 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes Circle Tour Coastal Access Guide $78,373 University of Wisconsin-Madison Support development of a management strategy $29,673 that addresses the Cladophora concern. Project Develop an interactive web mapping site with Contact: Dr. Harvey Bootsma, (414) 382-1717 marine heritage tourism attractions and public Enhanced Web Access for Communities access sites to the Great Lakes coast. Project Department of Natural Resources Contact: Dr. Stephen J. Ventura, (608) 262-6416 $57,273 Natural Areas Assistance Program Develop web-based tools to enhance access to Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin ecological, management and cultural information $29,500 on State Natural Areas. Project Contact: Promote community leadership and volunteer Ms. Betty Les, (608) 266-3369 support of State Natural Areas. Project Contact: Smart Prevention of Aquatic Invasive Species in Mr. Charles Luthin, (608) 261-4384 Lake Michigan Coastal Counties of Wisconsin Characterization of Escherichia coli in University of Wisconsin-Madison Beach Sands Relative to Sediment Size and $38,785 Hydrologic Factors Identification of tributaries and coastal sites that University of Wisconsin-Parkside are vulnerable to invasion by rusty crayfish and $20,000 zebra mussels from inland waters. Project Contact: Assess the interaction between surface run-off, Dr. Jake Vander Zanden, (608) 262-9464 E. coli (bacterial) sediment burden and Lake Michigan Birding and Nature Trail: Phase groundwater, and the processes by which they III Great Wisconsin Birding and Nature Trail interact. Project Contact: Dr. John D. Skalbeck, Department of Natural Resources (262) 595-2490 $30,000 Develop a mapped auto trail guiding travelers to birding and nature-based recreation sites in Lake Michigan counties. Project Contact: Ms. Susan Foote-Martin, (608) 266-0545
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 16 Lake Superior Visual Quality Inventory Technical Assistance Ashland County Northwest Regional Planning Commission Northwest Regional Planning Commission $18,750 $20,000 Improving Winter Public Access to A collaborative effort between the NWRPC and Support local governments and the WCMP in Madeline Island the University of Wisconsin-Extension to develop coastal management activities. Project Contact: Town of La Pointe an informational publication and convene an Mr. Jason Laumann, (715) 635-2197 $30,900 educational forum focusing on the visual resources Reconstruct Griggs Approach and provide of Wisconsin’s Lake Superior shoreline. Project Technical Assistance stormwater collection and filtration areas for Contact: Mr. Jason Laumann, (715) 635-2197 Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission runoff. Project Contact: Mr. Keith Sowl, $20,000 (715) 747-6855 Restoration of Coastal Wetlands: Invasive Support local governments and the WCMP in Species Removal coastal management activities. Project Contact: 2005 Waterfront Trail Public Access Department of Natural Resources Mr. Mark Walter, (920) 448-2820 Improvements $13,500 City of Ashland Restore 46 acres of degraded wetlands at eight Technical Assistance $26,500 coastal State Natural Areas. Project Contact: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Provide a 1,820-foot connection to the Mr. Randy Hoffman, (608) 267-7587 Commission Waterfront Trail from Memorial Park. Project $20,000 Contact: Ms. Brea Lemke, (715) 682-7041 Great Waters Institute Support local governments and the WCMP in Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources coastal management activities. Project Contact: Maskiigimim (Cranberry) Inventory $10,000 Dr. Don Reed, (262) 547-6721 and Assessment Seminars for fourteen competitively selected Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa journalists to learn about Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Inventory $20,070 environmental and coastal management issues. Department of Natural Resources Inventory existing wild cranberry species and Project Contact: Mr. Peter Annin, $83,338 potential habitat in coastal wetlands using (608) 278-8005 Continue updates and enhancements to the fieldwork, aerial photos and historical data. Wisconsin Wetland Inventory in the coastal Project Contact: Ms. Leah Gibala, (715) 682-7111 In Their Own Voices: Land Conservation counties. Project Contact: Ms. Lois Simon, in the Lake Superior Basin (608) 266-8852 Use of Re-Directive Methods (Flow-Deflecting Bayfield Regional Conservancy Vanes) for Reducing Bluff Erosion $6,000 Technical Assistance to Local Units of Government University of Wisconsin-Madison A collection of stories from landowners who have Department of Natural Resources $17,308 protected their land through land preservation $368,684 Implement, maintain and monitor re-directive agreements with land trusts or other methods of Enhance the local role in wetland protection by flow techniques to control erosion along North land protection. Project Contact: supporting implementation and enforcement of Fish Creek. Project Contact: Mr. John A. Hoopes, Ms. Ruth Oppedahl, (715) 779-5263 waterway and shoreland-wetland regulations. (608) 262-2977 Project Contact: Ms. Lois Simon, (608) 266-8852
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 17 Bayfield County Non-Point Source Beach Contamination Kenosha County Correlation for High Health Risks City and Town of Washburn (Continuation) Chiwaukee Prairie Habitat Restoration Comprehensive Plan Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department of Natural Resources City of Washburn Department $30,000 $55,200 $47,500 Restore 110 acres of degraded wetlands at Comprehensive planning process for the A replication of the 2004 testing regime to Chiwaukee State Natural Area. Project Contact: City and Town of Washburn. Project Contact: ensure accurate results and support for the Mr. Marty Johnson, (262) 884-2391 Ms. Ruth Oppedahl, (715) 373-0973 Adopt-A-Beach program. Project Contact: Discover Wisconsin 2005-2006 TV Episode Ms. Vinni Chomeau, (920) 746-2214 Kenosha Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Brown County $15,000 Red Banks-Gilson Creek Conservation Plan Douglas County Support a 30-minute Discover Wisconsin TV episode spotlighting the Kenosha area and its University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Cofrin GIS-based Sediment Quality Database Center for Biodiversity coastline. Project Contact: Ms. Deanna Goodwin, for the St. Louis River Area of Concern (800) 654-7309 $22,134 St. Louis River Citizen Action Committee Ecological inventory and development of a $47,000 conservation plan for the Red Banks and Gilson Assemble a GIS-based sediment quality database Kewaunee County Creek site on Green Bay. Project Contact: that will meet the needs of stakeholders within the Dr. Robert Howe, (920) 465-2272 Kewaunee County Wetland Restoration St Louis River Area of Concern. Project Contact: Inventory Ms. Lynelle Hanson, (218) 733-9520 Kewaunee County Land & Water Door County Stormwater Education Conservation Dept. Wisconsin’s Maritime Trails 2005: Door County City of Superior Wastewater Treatment Plant $23,000 Wisconsin Historical Society $30,000 Inventory, assess and monitor small wetland $54,405 Develop a citizen waterway monitoring program, restorations in Kewaunee County following the Expand to Door County the Wisconsin’s guidance for students to plan and install rain protocol of WCMP-funded projects in other Maritime Trails initiative linking shipwrecks, gardens at Superior Middle School, design and counties. Project Contact: Ms. Jill Hewitt, lighthouses, historic waterfronts, historic vessels, construction of a parking lot rain garden on (262) 242-7398 museums, shore-side historical markers and Barkers Island, storm drain stenciling and rain Discover Wisconsin 2004-2005 TV Episode attractions. Project Contact: Mr. John Broihahn, barrel workshops. Project Contact: Algoma Area Chamber of Commerce (608) 264-6496 Ms. Diane Thompson, (715) 394-0392 $15,000 Support a 30-minute Discover Wisconsin TV episode spotlighting the Algoma area and its coastline. Project Contact: Ms. Pam Ritchie, (920) 487-2041
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 18 Manitowoc County Strategic Planning and Codes/Ordinance Menomonee Valley Riverbank Stabilization Development and Public Access Project Wisconsin Maritime Museum (USS Rasher) Village of Howards Grove Redevelopment Authority of the City of Manitowoc/Wisconsin Maritime Museum $9,200 City of Milwaukee $40,000 Complete natural resource planning for the $101,800 A USS Rasher Submariners Memorial on the Village of Howards Grove to identify and protect Implement the WCMP funded stormwater south shore of the Manitowoc River across environmental corridors and special features. management and public access plan for a from the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Project Contact: Mr. Kenneth C. DeSombre, redevelopment site on the Menomonee River in Project Contact: Mr. Nicholas Levendusky, (920) 565-3511 Milwaukee. Project Contact: Mr. Brian Reilly, (920) 686-6932 (414) 286-5616 Manitowoc County Septic Monitoring Dam Removal on Millhome Creek, Manitowoc County Planning and Park Shipshape II: Expansion of the Great Lakes Manitowoc County Commission Marine Vessel Files Department of Natural Resources $5,000 Milwaukee Public Library $25,763 A comprehensive monitoring program on the $44,830 Removal of four small dams and channel oldest septic systems near the lakes, rivers and Expand the Shipshape marine vessel database to restoration on the headwaters of a Class I trout tributaries of Manitowoc County. Project include 2,000 additional records. Project Contact: stream that leads to the Sheboygan River. Project Contact: Mr. Matt Payette, (920) 683-4192 Ms. Virginia Schwartz, (414) 286-3216 Contact: Mr. Michael Toneys, (920) 746-2864 Manitowoc County Beaches Evaluation Project Marinette County Racine County Manitowoc County Soil & Water Conservation Dept. Discover Wisconsin 2005-2006 TV Episode North Beach Stone Wall Restoration $25,000 Marinette County Tourism Alliance City of Racine Parks, Recreation Identify the influence of factors such as waves, $15,000 & Cultural Services Department wind direction and other weather data on beach Support a 30-minute Discover Wisconsin TV $46,440 bacterial contamination. Project Contact: episode spotlighting Marinette County and its Restore a stone wall at the Racine North Beach Mr. Tom Ward, (920) 683-4183 coastline. Project Contact: Mr. Don Clewley, Oasis. The Clean Beach Council designated (715) 732-0230 North Beach as a Blue Wave Beach for 2004. Comprehensive Planning for the Town of Project Contact: Mr. Donnie Snow, Centerville and Village of Cleveland Milwaukee County (262) 636-9131 Village of Cleveland $20,000 Vanselow Property Acquisition Support development of the natural resources, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District land use and plan implementation elements of the $147,400 comprehensive plans for the Town of Centerville Acquire 14 acres of farmed wetland in Oak Creek and Village of Cleveland. Project Contact: and restore the land to functioning wetland Ms. Cindy Huhn, (920) 693-8059 providing flood prevention and sediment reduction in the Root River. Project Contact: Ms. Sheila Charnon, (414) 225-2134
Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Wisconsin Coastal Management Program (WCMP) in the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) publishes Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle. It welcomes but is not responsible for the opinions expressed by contributing authors.
Wisconsin Coastal Wisconsin Coastal Management Program Management Council Jim Doyle Mayor Gary Becker, Chair, Racine Governor Todd Ambs, Wisconsin Department Marc J. Marotta of Natural Resources Secretary, DOA Laura Arbuckle, Wisconsin Department Laura Arbuckle of Administration Administrator, Division of Robert Browne, Superior Intergovernmental Relations, DOA Sharon Cook, Milwaukee Harald (Jordy) Jordahl Director, Division of James P. Hurley, University of Wisconsin Intergovernmental Relations, DOA Sea Grant Institute Mike Friis Larry Kieck, Wisconsin Department Program Manager, WCMP of Transportation Travis Olson Ken Leinbach, Whitefish Bay Wetland Protection & Land Use Larry MacDonald, Bayfield Planning Coordinator, WCMP Mayor Douglas T. Oitzinger, Marinette Kathleen Angel Federal Consistency Coordinator, WCMP William Schuster, Sturgeon Bay Scott Caronna State Representative Terry Van Akkeren, Intern, WCMP Sheboygan Senator Robert W. Wirch, Kenosha
Editor James M. Langdon, Deputy Administrator, Division of Enterprise Operations, DOA Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 20 Photographs Wisconsin Coastal Page, Image, Photographer Management Program Cover, Apostle Islands, Robert Queen 101 East Wilson Street Contents, Toft Point, Gerald H. Emmerich PO Box 8944 1, Gov. Jim Doyle, Governor’s Press Office Madison, Wisconsin 53708-8944 2, Stockton Lagoon, National Park Service (608) 267-7982 http://coastal.wisconsin.gov 2, Gaylord Nelson at Quarry Bay, Fred Wessel [email protected] 3, Gaylord Nelson, Frank Wallick 4, Menomonee Valley, Eddee Daniel 5, Spiderwort, Eddee Daniel 6, Lake Michigan splashing, Robert Queen 7, Lake Michigan beach, Wisconsin DNR file photo 8, Port Washington, Wisconsin Department of Tourism (WI Tourism) Financial assistance for this project was provided by the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, 9, Ephraim, WI Tourism as amended, administered by the Office of Ocean 10, Stockton Lagoon, WI Tourism and Coastal Resource Management, National 11, Great Lakes stream, Robert Queen Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 12, Milwaukee Riverwalk, Consultwebs.com pursuant to Grant #NA17OZ1144 and the 13, Kenosha Streetcar, WI Tourism Wisconsin Coastal Management Program. 13, Blue Harbor Resort, WI Tourism The Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, 14, Kenosha Light, WI Tourism part of the Wisconsin Department of 15, Kewaunee Light, WI Tourism Administration, was established in 1978 to 15, Falk Company and Mitchell Park Domes, preserve, protect and manage the resources of Eddee Daniel the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior coastline 16, Lake Superior, Robert Queen for this and future generations. 20, Lion’s Den Gorge, Robert Queen 21, Lake Michigan sunrise, WI Tourism Back Cover, Gaylord Nelson, Frank Wallick
DOA-9743-P 09/2005 Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle 2005 | page 21 The 2005 Wisconsin Great Lakes Chronicle is dedicated to the life and works of Senator Gaylord Nelson.