Great Lakes Aquarium Lake Superior Ecology Overview Lake Superior is an immeasurably important resource for ecological, economic, and social reasons. In turn, our actions also effect the lake. We are responsible for its continual well being. The living lake. The living lake is all of these things and more. including the human dimension.
Lake Superior is among the most pristine of the world's freshwater systems.
Because of a combination of ecological and historical factors, it remains much cleaner and more wild than the other Great Lakes. Yet Lake Superior also faces important, major environmental problems.