The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, in partnership with local and national agencies, is leading efforts to recognize local waters as a national reserve.
This reserve is an important next step in the region’s 30-plus-year effort to protect one of the largest surface freshwater systems on earth.
Upon site selection within the Green Bay estuary, the NERR designation (National Estuarine Research Reserve) will use locally relevant and nationally significant research to address local coastal management issues and help protect the world’s largest freshwater estuary.
The goal of the Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is to be the most technologically-advanced NERR in a network of 29 reserves covering more than 1.3 million acres throughout the U.S.
You can learn more about the NERR by going to https://www.uwgb.edu/national-estuarine-research-reserves/.