Water Studies Group

Water Studies Community Breakfast Comments, January 26, 2006

What role could NMC play in helping you address these trends?

Make available grant writing assistance for combating threats to our watershed
Assist in obtaining expertise and resources relating to protecting our watershed
Coordinate through WSI collection of data from all lake associations vs. MSU, where it is now done
Coordinate area-wide health response to epidemic
Offer in-depth courses in watershed management and all its components
Helping our bioregion relocalize its economy, food shed, local government
Support effective cooperative partnerships
Create and foster connectivity and common-ground between people/organizations/businesses/transients
Take advantage of its surroundings when feeding and building as well as educating
Provide training opportunities for communities and interested groups, such as lake associations
Offer courses on zoning, water testing, protecting the watershed; currently only available at MSU downstate
Encourage citizen planner programs
Host informational seminars designed to attract people under 50 on issues such as environment awareness, surface water, ground water
Educate the public regarding Agriculture as industry; buying local products
Invite speakers from the Mancelona Historical Society Museum to NMC classes
Assistance in building nonprofit capacity
Board recruitment assistance
Networking opportunities and convening of various public, private and nonprofit organizations
Secure major funding
Continue work like WSI
Act as consensus builder for townships to develop planning best practices