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For more information about Lake Champlain and world lakes contact the Lake Champlain Basin Program, 54 West Shore Road, Grand Isle, VT 05458. Or call (802) 372-3213 (800) 468-5227 in NY & VT. Visit www.lcbp.org online.
NEWTon is the trademarked mascot of ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (www. echovermont.org), on Vermont’s Burlington Waterfront. NEWTon represents the Lake Champlain Basin’s red-spotted newt.
Photo credits: Lake Titicaca: A. Souder; Lake Biwa: Udo Gattenlohner; Lake Issyk-kul: Lisa Borre/LakeNet; Lake Baikal: BINM, Lake Champlain Oleg Nekhayev (2002) and ISC Moscow; Lake Victoria: LakeNet; Lake Superior: Lisa Borre/LakeNet. Basin Program This poster was funded by US EPA-New England under grant #X7-98183801. It is printed on recycled paper with soy-based inks.