Enhancing Ecological Productivity of Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern Watersheds

Gary S. Casper

UWM Field Station, gscasper@uwm.edu

The goal of this project is to assess and map wildlife habitat in the Ozaukee County portion of the Milwaukee River Basin, for ranking habitat restoration sites for best value. Work continued in 2015. Funded by EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Wisconsin Coastal Management Program awards to Ozaukee County.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.