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Legal Toolkit

This Legal Toolkit is a comprehensive set of resources designed to accompany the first Legal Tools to Protect Coastal Environments Workshop on June 18-20, 2008 in Traverse City Michigan.  Below, you will find folders containing workshop information, background on the project partners and an introduction to environmental law.  These folders are followed by a series of topic folders, ranging from critical dunes to invasive species.  In each of the topic folders, you will find a topic summary, a topic resource list and files containing each of the accompanying resources.  The files are numbered to indicate the order in which they should be reviewed.

All documents are provided in Adobe Acrobat format Adobe Acrobat

Legal Toolkit Chapters:

  1. Workshop Information
  2. Project Partners
  3. Introduction to Environmental Law
  4. Public Entry
  5. Critical Dunes
  6. Endangered Species
  7. NEPA
  8. Land Protection
  9. Surface Water Discharges
  10. Groundwater Discharges
  11. Floodplain Legislation
  12. Wetlands
  13. Soil Erosion
  14. MEPA
  15. Public Trust
  16. Great Lakes Bottomlands
  17. Water Use
  18. Great Lakes Compact
  19. Aquatic Invasive Species

Toolkit materials created to accompany the first Legal Tools to Protect Coastal Environments Workshop on June 18-20, 2008 at Northwestern Michigan College's Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, Traverse City, MI.

Project Director: Colleen Masterson
Great Lakes Water Studies Institute

Toolkit written and compiled by:
Chris Bzdok, Sarah Williams and Melissa Moss
Olson, Bzdok & Howard, P.C.

Funded by:

Project Partners:

Graphic design by:
Kristen Lensch
Jellyfish Communication Design

© 2008. No claim to original government works.

Legal Tools to Protect Coastal Environments

Legal Tools to Protect Coastal Environments