Announcement: During the coming months the Trout Lake Learning Center is please to announce that it will be undertaking two environmental projects.
(1) We have received NOFC funding to hire an intern to do McIntyre Superior Rainbow Study The goal of the study is to enhance to overall environmental quality of the McIntyre River system, including the protection and development of urban fisheries by discovering the cause of the decline in the numbers of rainbow trout returning to Trout Lake via the McIntyre River to spawn. We have hired for a Study Director and will be introduced at a Press conference on December 28, 2008 at 11 a.m. . This is a year-long contract position scheduled to commence in January 2008. (2) The second program is to collect data on the types of birds that either reside or visit the Lake Superior basin between November 11th 2007 and March 31st 2008.  Bird watchers will be encouraged to list the birds they see into an online data base. This searchable data base will allow visitors to the website to search to see what other birds have been entered and the location where they were seen and the date. The success of both programs are dependant on the support of the public. The bird data and its results will be discussed at a public meeting at the Trout Lake Learning Center at 1 p.m. on Saturday May 10, 2008 The McIntyre Superior Rainbow Study, will be released at a public meeting in November 2008 and it is expected that before then at least one public meeting will be held to provide opportunities for the pubic to provide information to the study director and the study advisory board. To submit a bird you have seen or to check out what birds other have seen | 
