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Screenshot from the new Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC website. Join the online community for the latest in landscape conservation efforts April 23, 2013 - The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) today released its newly designed public Web site GreatLakesLCC.org  to promote effective conservation through collaboration and sound science. The LCC facilitates dialogue among federal, state, non-governmental, academic and private interests to build a collaborative network of knowledge surrounding natural resources issues impacting the upper Midwest and Great Lakes landscape. LCC partners are working together to bridge the gap between science and natural resources management while tackling broad reaching natural resources challenges like climate change, aquatic and terrestrial connectivity, energy development, and socio-economic implications of conservation practices. GreatLakesLCC.org  provides natural resources professionals and...

Image via Wikipedia MDC and MoDOT sponsor 2011 Trash-Can Decorating Contest. More info at www. nomoretrash.org JEFFERSON CITY Mo –  Missouri elementary, middle and home school students K-8 are invited to help in the fight against litter -- and to have creative and educational fun -- by participating in the  2011 “Yes You CAN Make Missouri Litter Free” Trash-Can Decorating Contest.  The annual contest is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) as part of the state’s ongoing “No MOre Trash!” campaign to raise awareness about Missouri's litter problem and to discourage littering. “Missourians care about conserving our fish forest and wildlife,” said MDC No MOre Trash! Coordinator Joe Jerek. “Littering isn’t just ugly, it hurts wildlife, it costs Missourians millions of tax dollars each year, and it’s illegal. Birds, fish, turtles and other animals get tangled in litter, such as plastic six-pack holde...