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Welcome to the April 2009 edition of the MiCorps Monitor,
our first online-only issue! That's right, the MiCorps Monitor is
now paperless. As always, this edition is full of updates and
information on the activities and individuals of the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality's Michigan Clean Water Corps
(MiCorps). Browse the articles below, or go
directly to the full newsletter online.
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Fourth Annual MiCorps Conference: Celebrating
our Volunteers
The fourth annual Michigan
Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) conference was held October 20-21, 2008
at the Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center in Higgins Lake,
Michigan.
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Volunteer Stream Monitoring Gains Steam across
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
The Central
Upper Peninsula Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program began in the
spring of 2007 with the goals of training volunteers to collect
baseline water quality data and increasing stewardship of aquatic
resources through community involvement and education.
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Volunteer Stream Monitoring Grants Awarded for
2008
The MiCorps program is pleased to
announce its support of four organizations under the 2008 Volunteer
Stream Monitoring Grant Program, totaling nearly $50,000 in grant
funds.
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Highlights from the Cooperative Lakes
Monitoring Program (CLMP)
Ralph Vogel
has been collecting lake data for 35 years through the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality’s volunteer-based Cooperative
Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP).
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The Volunteer Corner: An Interview with John
Sanchez and Roy Tassava (CLMP)
For the
first installment of the Volunteer Corner, we caught up with
volunteers John Sanchez and Roy Tassava, experienced team leaders of
the Tip of the Mitt Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program.
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Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Five Year Watershed Assessment Cycle
In
1997, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) formed
a water quality monitoring strategy that established a five year
cycle in their monitoring of Michigan’s watersheds.
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MiCorps Updates
As
with most things, change is to be expected. This, too, is true of
the MiCorps team.
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Discussion Topic: What do you (want to)
monitor?
Since MiCorps began, there has
been discussion about what types of monitoring MiCorps should
support. This question actually has several implied questions within
it.
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