Projects
Examples of Projects the Foundation Funding Supports:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
• Provide bear resistant food storage lockers for camping areas on several Islands
• Endow the Lakeshore's 60-mile trail system
• Develop a "virtual tour" of Apostle Islands lighthouses
Grand Portage National Monument
• Reconstruct main historic bridge over Grand Portage Creek
• Endow mentorship program for Grand Portage Ojibwe youth
• Develop interactive computer for those not able to travel the Grand Portage
• Endow birch-bark canoe maker position
Isle Royale National Park
• Island educational trips for urban and disadvantaged students
• Stabilize the 1875 Menagerie Island Lighthouse
• Research declining coaster brook trout population
Keweenaw National Historical Park
• Print Junior Ranger project book
• Develop Copper Country "text book" for teachers
• Keweenaw heritage site sign program
• Construct first park entrance sign
• Develop trails & exhibits on Quincy Hill
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
• Preserve, restore and furnish the 1874 Au Sable Light Station
• Endow the Lakeshore's environmental education program
• Reconstruct popular hiking and ski trails
• Restore historic Coast Guard station landscapes