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Sign up for the Water Advocacy Institute for Seniors August 12-14, 2008, Milwaukee, WI Learn about the Great Lakes Compact, invasive species, water conservation, water and sewage treatment, and other hot topics in water quality. Find out how you can be a water advocate! For adults age 55 and older. Cost is $95 for three days of tours, speakers, and lunches. Scholarships available. For more information, contact Demaris Kenwood at 414-287-0207 x 35.
FMR is looking for a Water Quality Assistant Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers is seeking an experienced Water Quality Assistant to aid the Milwaukee Riverkeeper ® in collecting water quality data for our rivers. This full time position will also take on special projects related to implementing our region's water quality goals. The Water Quality Assistant works closely with, and at times supervises, citizen water quality volunteers and interns.
Celebrate Milwaukee's Urban Wilderness!
Sponsored by FMR, Urban Wilderness intertwines photography and storytelling to promote an appreciation for clean water and natural environments in our community. The book celebrates an intriguing and unexpected reality: natural beauty in an urban setting. Documenting the conditions within the Milwaukee River watershed, it envisions the preservation and restoration of natural areas along the region's rivers and streams.
Urban Wilderness may be preordered from Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers by contacting Erin Hartman at 414-287-0207x 34. Profits from all books ordered through Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers will return to the organization.
FMR comments on Cedar Creek TMDLs The WDNR is accepting comments on a “Total Maximum Daily Load” TMDL for Cedar Creek. TMDLs are essentially the amount of a certain pollutant that an individual body of water can receive before exceeding water quality standards set to protect that body. This TMDL is being put forth to set up clean-up standards for PCBs (polychlorinatede biphenyls) for Cedar Creek downstream of the duck pond, and for the Milwaukee River from the confluence of Cedar Creek in Grafton to the Thiensville Dam. |
the latest: Thursday, July 3 FMR would like to welcome our newest members
Friday, May 16
Thursday, February 28
Tuesday, February 19 FMR to sponsor Ed Begley, Jr. lecture
Wednesday, February 13
Tuesday, January 29 FMR works to keep paddlers safe
Tuesday, January 29 Senate passes phosphorus phase-out
Tuesday, January 29 Poll shows support for Great Lakes Compact
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Get
ready to experience the paradox of Urban Wilderness:
Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed, a new book by
Milwaukee photographer and FMR board member, Eddee Daniel. 
