National Marine Conservation Area
A large stretch of Lake Superior will become the world's largest freshwater marine protected area. The area will become the first of five across Canada to be named a National Marine Conservation Area.
The conservation area will be about 3,861 square miles of water in a triangular shape. The area stretches to the east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and down to the Canada-U.S. border, north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The ruling will protect it from potentially damaging activity such as mining, oil and gas development projects.
October 26, 2007 6:26 AM | Category: Lake Superior