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

THE GREAT LAKES INFORMATION SERVICE is now available for ftp!

* NEWLY UPDATED January 1993 *
Lots of new Great Lakes Reporter articles, plus some new Fact Sheets!



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).

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.

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.

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!