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State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conferences
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State of the Great Lakes 2007
- SOGL Cover Page (PDF) (2 pp, 819K)
- SOGL Preface (PDF) (5 pp, 972K)
- SOGL Introduction (PDF) (1 pg, 78K)
- Assessing Date Quality (PDF) (12 pp, 789K)
- Indicator Category Assessments and Management Challenges (PDF) (9 pp, 789K)
- What is Being Done to Improve Conditions (PDF) (3 pp, 733K)
- Indicator Reports and Assessments
- Indicator # 8 - Salmon and Trout (PDF) (7 pp, 733K)
- Indicator # 9 - Walleye (PDF) (4 pp, 649K)
- Indicator # 17 - Preyfish Population (PDF) (7 pp, 700K)
- Indicator # 18 - Sea Lamprey (PDF) (5 pp, 657K)
- Indicator # 68 - Native Freshwater Mussels (PDF) (4 pp, 853K)
- Indicator # 93 - Lake Trout (PDF) (4 pp, 677K)
- Indicator # 104 - Benthos Diversity and Abundance - Aquatic Oligochaete Communities (PDF) (7 pp, 802K)
- Indicator # 109 - Phytoplankton Populations (PDF) (3 pp, 660K)
- Indicator # 111 - Phosphorus Concentrations and Loadings (PDF) (4 pp, 1.4MB)
- Indicator # 114 - Contaminants in Young-of-the-Year Spottail Shiners (PDF) (7 pp, 808K)
- Indicator # 115 - Contaminants in Colonial Nesting Waterbirds (PDF) (6 pp, 1.0MB)
- Indicator # 116 - Zooplankton Populations (PDF) (8 pp, 761K)
- Indicator # 117 - Atmospheric Deposition of Toxic Chemicals (PDF) (6 pp, 775K)
- Indicator # 118 - Toxic Chemical Concentrations in Offshore Waters (PDF) (6 pp, 883K)
- Indicator # 119 - Concentrations of Contaminants in Sediment Cores (PDF) (3 pp, 892K)
- Indicator # 121 - Contaminants in Whole Fish (PDF) (9 pp, 940K)
- Indicator # 122 - Hexagenia (PDF) (5 pp, 888K)
- Indicator # 123 - Abundances of the Benthic Amphipod Diporeia spp. (PDF) (4 pp, 807K)
- Indicator # 124 - External Anomaly Prevalence Index for Nearshore Fish (PDF) (4 pp, 792K)
- Indicator # 125 - Status of Lake Sturgeon in the Great Lakes (PDF) (6 pp, 937K)
- Indicator # 3514 - Commercial/Industrial Eco-Efficiency Measures (PDF) (3 pp. 726K)
- Indicator # 4175 - Drinking Water Quality (PDF) (7 pp, 882K)
- Indicator # 4177 - Biological Markers of Human Exposure to Persistent Chemicals (PDF) (6 pp, 802K)
- Indicator # 4200 - Beach Advisories, Postings and Closures (PDF) (10 pp, 1.3MB)
- Indicator # 4201 - Contaminants in Sport Fish (PDF) (6 pp, 783K)
- Indicator # 4202 - Air Quality (PDF) (10 pp, 1.2MB)
- Indicator # 4501 - Coastal Wetland Invertebrate Community Health (PDF) (2 pp, 568K)
- Indicator # 4502 - Coastal Wetland Fish Community Health (PDF) (4 pp, 598K)
- Indicator # 4504 - Wetland-Dependent Amphibian Diversity and Abundance (PDF) (4 pp, 706K)
- Indicator # 4506 - Contaminants in Snapping Turtle Eggs (PDF) (4 pp, 789K)
- Indicator # 4507 - Wetland-Dependent Bird Diversity and Abundance (PDF) (5 pp, 723K)
- Indicator # 4510 - Coastal Wetland Area by Type (PDF) (4 pp, 702K)
- Indicator # 4858 - Ice Duration on the Great Lakes (PDF) (4 pp, 833K)
- Indicator # 4861 - Effect of Water Level Fluctuations (PDF) (4 pp, 747K)
- Indicator # 4862 - Coastal Wetland Plant Community Health (PDF) (5 pp, 638K)
- Indicator # 4863 - Land Cover Adjacent to Coastal Wetlands (PDF) (4 pp,1.1MB)
- Indicator # 7000 - Urban Density (PDF) (4 pp, 719K)
- Indicator # 7002 - Land Cover/Land Conversion (PDF) (6 pp, 1.4MB)
- Indicator # 7006 - Brownfields Redevelopment (PDF) (5 pp, 1.0MB)
- Indicator # 7028 - Sustainable Agriculture Practices (PDF) (3 pp, 792K)
- Indicator # 7043 - Economic Prosperity (PDF) (3 pp, 683K)
- Indicator # 7054 - Ground Surface Hardening (PDF) (2 pp, 543K)
- Indicator # 7056 - Water Withdrawals (PDF) (5 pp, 1.1MB)
- Indicator # 7057 - Energy Consumption (PDF) (7 pp, 941K)
- Indicator # 7060 - Solid Waste Disposal (PDF) (6 pp, 742K)
- Indicator # 7061 - Nutrient Management Plans (PDF) (3 pp, 872K)
- Indicator # 7062 - Integrated Pest Management (PDF) (3 pp, 793K)
- Indicator # 7064 - Vehicle Use (PDF) (4 pp, 733K)
- Indicator # 7065 - Wastewater Treatment and Pollution (PDF) (9 pp, 798K)
- Indicator # 7100 - Natural Groundwater Quality and Human-Induced Changes (PDF) (5 pp, 2.1MB)
- Indicator # 7101 - Groundwater and Land: Use and Intensity (PDF) (5 pp, 1.8MB)
- Indicator # 7102 - Base Flow Due to Groundwater Discharge (PDF) (8 pp, 1.8MB)
- Indicator # 7103 - Groundwater Dependent Plant and Animal Communities (PDF) (4 pp, 2.5MB)
- Indicator # 8129 - Area, Quality and Protection of Special Lakeshore Communities - Alvars (PDF) (3 pp, 705K)
- Indicator # 8129 - Area, Quality and Protection of Special Lakeshore Communities - Cobble Beaches (PDF) (4 pp, 882K)
- Indicator # 8129 - Area, Quality and Protection of Special Lakeshore Communities - Islands (PDF) (6 pp, 761K)
- Indicator # 8129 - Area, Quality and Protection of Special Lakeshore Communities - Sand Dunes (PDF) (2 pp, 547K)
- Indicator # 8131 - Extent of Hardened Shoreline (PDF) (3 pp, 691K)
- Indicator # 8135 - Contaminants Affecting Productivity of Bald Eagles (PDF) (3 pp, 926K)
- Indicator # 8147 - Population Monitoring and Contamination Affecting the American Otter (PDF) (4 pp, 645K)
- Indicator # 8164 - Biodiversity Conservation Sites (PDF) (4 pp, 1.2MB)
- Indicator # 8500 - Forest Lands - Conservation of Biological Diversity (PDF) (8 pp, 784K)
- Indicator # 8501 - Forest Lands - Maintenance of Productive Capacity of Forest Ecosystems (PDF) (4 pp, 684K)
- Indicator # 8503 - Forest Lands - Conservation and Maintenance of Soil and Water Resources (PDF) (6 pp, 2.2MB)
- Indicator # 9000 - Acid Rain (PDF) (6 pp, 1.8MB)
- Indicator # 9002 - Non-Native Species - Aquatic (PDF) (5 pp, 754K)
- Indicator # 9002 - Non-Native Species - Terrestrial (PDF) (5 pp, 669K)
- Acronyms and Abbreviations (PDF) (8 pp, 617K)
- Acknowledgments (PDF) (2 pp, 617K)