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Cullen328 (talk) 18:37, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I have rewritten the entry to remove any reference to anything that could be considered promotional. We would really like to post this natural resource and historical information about Southeast Michigan if possible. Could you please consider it as re-written here? Thank you for your time.

Wikipedia page draft revised submission - The Great Lakes Way

ABOUT:

Metropolitan Detroit is situated in the heart of the Laurentian Great Lakes, which make up one-fifth of the standing freshwater on the earth’s surface. The international waters along the southeast Michigan coastline stretch from southern Lake Huron through the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River, and empty into western Lake Erie.

The Metropolitan Detroit region first attracted Native Americans because of its water and other abundant natural resources. Those resources contributed greatly to the economic vitality of the region, helping establish Detroit as a major Great Lakes port city and a participant in 19th century shipbuilding and shipping industries. They also helped create a global center for manufacturing with the advent of the auto industry in the 20th century.

Today, the water and other natural resources of the Huron-Erie corridor provide residents and visitors with unique opportunities for close-to-home outdoor recreation and education - -- experiences that can be found nowhere else in the world.

Several non-profits and government organizations worked together to help make Southeast Michigan a better place to live by connecting people to nature and their neighbors by establishing The Great Lakes Way -- a national greenway and blueway system. The Great Lakes Way connects people of all ages, abilities, backgrounds, and ethnicities to the outdoor recreational, historic and cultural activities that all make southeast Michigan a destination of choice.

The Great Lakes Way consists of 160 miles of greenways and 156 miles of blueways that link residents and visitors to a collection of world-class freshwater, wildlife, and recreation activities, including fisheries, bird migration paths, parks, working waterways, preserved woodlands, and restored wetlands. This trail corridor is unique for its natural resources and for its history, including Native American history, voyageurs and early European exploration, the War of 1812, the Underground Railroad, ship building, a rich automobile industry, and one of world’s most significant international crossroads for trade and international cooperation.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GREAT LAKES WAY

The Great Lakes Way is located in the heart of the Great Lakes and is unique for its continentally significant natural resources. It knits together local greenways like the Bridge to Bay Trail in St. Clair County, the Detroit RiverWalk – recently designated the No. 1 riverwalk in the Unites States by USA Today, and the River Raisin Heritage Trail in Monroe County with local water trails like the Lake St. Clair Water Trail, the Lower Rouge River Water Trail, and the Detroit Heritage River Water Trail into a blue-green trail system of national significance. The Great Lakes Way is also unique for its Native American, Underground Railroad, ship building, automobile, and Arsenal of Democracy histories. The Great Lakes Way traverses along or through 30 different federal lands, including lands of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. It also passes through and along 15 state parks or state game/wildlife areas, two metroparks, and 90 county and city parks.

Taken together, these natural resource, recreational, historical, and cultural amenities provide a compelling outdoor recreational experience for nearly seven million people living in the watershed and many annual visitors – an experience that can be found nowhere else.

The trail, park and shoreline improvements made through The Great Lakes Way is helping preserve and enhance existing natural resources. For example, planting trees, adding parks and green spaces, planting pollinator gardens, improving shoreline resiliency, controlling urban runoff, and creating carbon-free transportation alternatives all help improve water and air quality and mitigate climate change.

NATURAL RESOURCES:

-St. Clair River - This 39-mile river serves as a connecting channel between Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair

-Black River - This 81-mile river flows into the St. Clair River in Port Huron, Michigan

-Belle River - This 74-mile river flows into the St. Clair River in Marine City, Michigan

-Lake St. Clair - The St. Clair River empties into the 430-square mile Lake St. Clair that, in turn, empties into the Detroit River

-Clinton River - This 83-mile-long river drains 760 square miles of southeast Michigan before it empties into Lake St. Clair

-Detroit River - This 32-mile connecting channel links Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie

-Rouge River - This 127-mile-long river drains 467 square miles of Southeast Michigan before it empties into the Detroit River

-Huron River - This 130-mile-long river drains 908 square miles of Southeast Michigan before it empties into western Lake Erie, near the mouth of the Detroit River

-Lake Erie - This is the eleventh largest lake in the world (by surface area) and the warmest and most biologically productive of the Great Lakes

-River Raisin - This 139-mile-long river drains 1,072 square miles of Southeast Michigan before it empties into western Lake Erie

Wetlands of International Importance St. Clair Flats on the Ontario side of the St. Clair River, Point Pelee National Park in Leamington, Ontario, and Humbug Marsh in Trenton and Gibraltar, Michigan have been designated as “Wetlands of International Importance” under the international Ramsar Convention

- Heritage River Designation The Detroit River is the first river in North America to receive both American Heritage River and Canadian Heritage River designations

WILDLIFE RESOURCES:

-Birds - More than 350 species of birds have been identified in the corridor

-Flyways - Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, and western Lake Erie are situated at the intersection of the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways

-Waterfowl - 30 species of waterfowl have been documented using the corridor; more than 300,000 diving ducks use the lower Detroit River as stopover habitat during spring migration

-Freshwater Delta - St. Clair Flats is one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world and provides important stopover points for feeding for migratory shore birds during fall migration

-Raptors - The lower Detroit River is one of the three best places to watch raptor migrations in the U.S.; 23 species of raptors migrate through the lower Detroit River; birders have seen over 100,000 raptors migrating in a single fall day

-Important Bird Areas - The corridor has four Important Bird Areas that have been identified by the National Audubon Society

-Waterfowl hunting - In 2011, Ducks Unlimited identified Detroit as one of the top ten metropolitan areas for waterfowl hunting in the United States

-Birding Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, and western Lake Erie offer exceptional birding opportunities; a ByWays to FlyWays Bird Driving Tour Map features 27 unique birding sites in southwest Ontario and southeast Michigan

-Fish - 113 species of fish have been identified in the corridor

-Fish spawning - Detroit River wetlands provide spawning areas for 26% of the fish species in the Great Lakes

-Walleye - An estimated 10 million walleye ascend the Detroit River from Lake Erie each spring to spawn, creating an internationally renowned sport fishery

-Fishing - Detroit River and Lake Erie are considered the “Walleye Capital of the World;” major international fishing tournaments, sponsored by FLW Outdoors and other organizations, are held annually on the Detroit River and western Lake Erie offering prize money of as much as $1.5 million

-Biodiversity - The Detroit River and western Lake Erie have been recognized for their biodiversity in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (one of 34 waterfowl habitat areas of major concern in the U.S. and Canada);the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (i.e., Detroit River and western Lake have identified as areas to receive biodiversity protection and conservation); the Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve Network (i.e., marshes along the lower Detroit River and northeast Ohio have been identified a Regional Shorebird Reserve); and the Biodiversity Investment Area Program of Environment Canada and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (i.e., the Detroit River-Lake St. Clair ecosystem has been identified as one of 20 Biodiversity Investment Areas in the Great Lakes) GreatLakesWay (talk) 14:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)