Friends of Northern Lake Champlain is active in three arenas:

PROJECTS:

Our major work to date has been with dairy farmers on a broad variety of improved field practices and production area practices.  In 2012 we will increase our work with ag interests and will increase our work with municipalities, creating stormwater management plans for Georgia, Swanton, Swanton Village, Highgate, Enosburgh and Enosburg Falls Village.  Our project information can be found on Projects in 2012 and on Past Projects.

ADVOCACY:

We work with the leadership and the staff of the Agency of Natural Resources and the Agency of Agriculture, and we work with the Shumlin Administration, legislators, municipal officials, the media, businesses, farmers, the general public and others.  We want a clean Lake to be high on everybody’s agenda.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: 

We have nine public events per year, which serve a varying mixture of educational, fundraising and social purposes.  Our two largest events had 250 people and 105 people in attendance, two of the largest public information events on all of Lake Champlain in 2011.  Examples of our other fundraising/informational events are “Run for the Lake,”  “Bike for the Lake,”  the Georgia community pig roast on the lake shore, a farm walk, an Islands event, etc.  We also have a variety of media efforts, and we work closely with other water quality groups in Vermont and Quebec.

 The purpose is to increase the number of people taking action and advocating for clean water.  We want to have more citizens and businesses paying more attention to water quality in Lake Champlain and all the streams and rivers.  The Lake is a valuable natural/economic/social resource–  too valuable to leave it like it is.

 The Lake is a reflection of all of us, and of our lives.

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