b'The Great Lakes BasinWe like to say that everyoneTo date, we distributed 7,700 copies of the map lives on waterfrontacross the region. Our partner, TNC, distributed an additional 29,000 as inserts in its conservation property. This is because everything peoplereport. It is proudly featured in federal and legislative do on their land ends up in one of the Great Lakes.offices across the Great Lakes binational basin and To illustrate this, we worked with The Natureas wallpaper in some nonprofit offices. The map is Conservancy (TNC) to create a watershed map ofalso included in lesson plans created by Alliance the Great Lakes basin. for the Great Lakes and Detroit Public Television. Each watershed (drainage basin) is designated by aThroughout the past year, U.S. Members of color and demonstrates that no matter where you areCongress tweeted about it as they made significant located, you are in a watershed. A watershed can beannouncements about Great Lakes policies. It even as small as a few acres draining into a farm pond ormade its debut on C-SPAN!as large as several thousand square miles of a majorWe hope you find the included map educationallake, such as one of the Great Lakes. For example,and useful. To request additional copies, go tothe different watersheds for Lake Erie are colored inbit.ly/GLWatershedMap. a shade of blue. All the waterclean and pollutedthat flows into the blue watersheds eventually flows into Lake Erie.28'