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The Chequamegon Bay Area Partnership (CBAP) is a coalition of agencies, governments, organizations, and institutions in the Chequamegon Bay that aspire to improve the ecological, economic, and social fabric of the Chequamegon Bay area of Lake Superior through a collaborative natural resource decision-making and implementation team.

The CBAP formed in 2009 in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), believing that a team effort could improve the breadth and effectiveness of natural resources management efforts in the Chequamegon Bay area.

The CBAP had brought in more than $1 million in GLRI funding for projects ranging from restoring native fish habitat through barrier removals and culvert replacements, to reducing sediment and nutrient pollution by implementing conservation practices with private landowners, to keeping area beaches clean and safe for recreation

Partners	CBAP Information	CBAP in the News
The partners list is growing and currently includes: Ashland County Land and Water Conservation Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Bad River Watershed Association Bayfield Regional Conservancy Bayfield County City of Ashland City of Bayfield Iron County Land and Water Conservation Northland College (sponsoring organization) Northwoods Cooperative Weed Management Area Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute (coordinating partner) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service University of Wisconsin Extension-Natural Resources Program Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CBAP Strategic Priorities Document Projects Landowner Approach to Watershed Restoration Marengo River Watershed Fish Creek Watershed Habitat Restoration Beach Sanitary Surveys & Clean up	Rapid snowmelt rushes sediment into Chequamegon Bay Rain gardens at WITC promote health of Lake Superior Watershed Second phase of Whittlesey Creek restoration underway   Plumes of red clay, sediment flood the Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior Chequamegon Bay Area Partnership continues beach cleanups through GLRI funds GLRI funded projects helped prevent wash outs from spring flooding.