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- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Subject: GREAT LAKES INFO
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:32:54 GMT
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- THE GREAT LAKES INFORMATION SERVICE is now available for ftp!
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- * NEWLY UPDATED January 1993 *
- Lots of new Great Lakes Reporter articles, plus some new Fact Sheets!
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- Fact Sheets about various Great Lakes topics and issues, along with two
- years worth of new stories from the Great Lakes Reporter, can be found
- via anonymous ftp at nic.cic.net, in the subdirectory
- /pub/great-lakes/info (where you'll find a readme.txt file which explains
- and lists what's available in what subdirectory).
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- Topics covered by Fact Sheets include Great Lakes water diversion, water
- quality, waterfront development, pollution prevention, regional and
- international agreements such as the Great Lakes Water QUality
- Agreement, and the effects of global warming on the Lakes.
- There are Fact Sheets on many of the 43 Great Lakes Areas of Concern,
- which are the worst toxic hotspots as designated by the two federal
- governments. There are also some general-information texts on each Great
- Lake (size, population, condition, etc.) in the subdirectory
- /GeneralInfo.
-
- The Great Lakes Reporter, a regional newsmagazine published by The
- Center for the Great Lakes, covers news, trends, and issues relating the
- environment of the Great Lakes ecosystem and the economy of the region,
- especially when they interact. You will find every major story that has
- appeared in the Reporter since the start of 1990, listed by subject area
- with headlines for easy access and searching. Typical topics include
- coverage of the historic regional public meetings held in Traverse City
- in October 1991; trends in various key economic sectors around the
- Lakes; analysis of current water quality planning and activities by
- governments, industry and citizen's groups around the region; waterfront
- development aroound the Lakes; "invader" species such as the zebra
- mussel; the state and future of the Great Lakes' fishery; the status of
- proposals to divert Great Lakes water, and so forth.
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- The Reporter is a part of the Great Lakes Information Service, a public
- service of The Center for the Great Lakes. This ftp access is the first
- step in a long-range plan to put the Information Service "on-line"; more
- Fact Sheets on more topics will be added, Reporter stories will be
- continuously added as they are published, existing Fact Sheets are
- periodically updated by Center researchers, and other useful and
- interesting things are being put on-line as we think of them
- (suggestions are welcome).
-
- This stuff is also available for on-line reading to anyone with access
- to a Gopher server: it is on the CICNet Gopher server, which is in
- Michigan. Ask your sysadm if you don't know to connect to it.
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- For more information, or to receive this material by U.S. Mail, send
- email to prb@chinet.chi.il.us. The Information Service also responds to
- requests for information from researchers, inlcuding searches of our
- library, and picking the brains of our brilliant, experienced and modest
- staff. Call 312-263-0785 and ask for Paul Botts or Noah Eiger; be sure
- and tell us where you heard of us, so we know whether this method of
- making the service known is working!
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