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International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), French: Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL), is an intergovernmental organization of African countries in the African Great Lakes region. [1]
The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin created the Council of Great Lakes Governors in 1983. The original goal was to create a non-partisan forum to promote regional agreements on issues of concern for the states of the Great Lakes region. In 1989, the governors of New York and Pennsylvania joined the council.
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
In the Great Lakes region, a vigorous lake-effect snow event is expected to last through the weekend before tapering off early next week. Six million people were under winter alerts Friday from ...
The funding program is like working on a home, said Greg McClinchey, the director of policy and legislative affairs at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a U.S.-Canada organization that works to ...
In 2011 the Mowat Centre co-organized, with the Brookings Institution, the Windsor-Detroit summit. Following the summit, the Mowat Centre took a leading role in creating the Council of the Great Lakes Region, [67] which was launched in 2013. Mowat has since collaborated with the Council of the Great Lakes Region on several research projects. [68]
At the 1969 National Governor's Association Conference, a committee on national marine affairs introduced the resolution to create CSO which was endorsed unanimously., [2] [3] The resolution noted the growing public interest and concern in maintaining the quality of the environment, and that state and territorial governments had not been adequately represented in the emerging national coastal ...
As Arctic air blasts across the Great Lakes region in the wake of a late-November snow and rainstorm, a tremendous natural snowmaking machine will be turned on high and will encompass much of the ...