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		Winter 1999 * Volume 4, Number 1 Special Report: Protecting Michigan's Lifeblood Macomb County Problems Sound Alert: Take Care of Watersheds ... 10-13 What an Ounce of Prevention is Worth ... 13 What "Point" and "Nonpoint" Polluntion Means ... 14 Two More Leaders Who Rose to the Challenge in Macomb ... 25 Administration Gradually Building Back Michigan's Once-Laudable Monitoring Program ... 16 Water Quality Hot Spots & Summary of Five Key Laws ... 17, 18 Case Study #1: State Opens Gate, Waterways to Livestock Factories ... 19-21 It's Not Just About Counting Private Profits; Across the Nation, Serious Hazards Emerge ... 22 Case Study #2: Natural Rivers Protect Public, Private Values ... 23 Michigan: A Photo Essay ... 24, 25 Case Study #3: Evidence of Deep Ideological Attack on the State Wetland Law ... 26, 27 Case Study #4: As Two Recent Calamities Show, Soil Sedimentation Law Needs a Major Overhaul ... 28, 29 Case Study #5: Big Drains Flush Sprawl's Pollution Downstream ... 30, 31 Among Michigan's Citizen-Led Restoration Projects, Three Noteworthy Models ... 32, 33 How to Be a Good Neighbor in Your Watershed ... 34 Projects Land Stewardship Project Cleveland Suburbs Blaze Trail; Work Together to Stop Sprawl ... 5, 6 Township Ordinance Defines Growth without Sprawl ... 7 Developer Runs Humbug Red Light ... 8 Voters Won't Pay for Sprawl ... 9 Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear ... 9 Residents Rally to Save Traverse City Landmark ... 9 Transportation Project The Latest in Transportation Planning: It's Not Just about Cars and New Roads Anymore ... 35-37 New Institute Project Makes the Land Use/Transportation Connection ... 37 Touchstones: Telecommuting Trend and Pedal Power ... 38 Proposed Petoskey Bypass: Petoskey Area Residents to Design a Positive Alternative ... 39, 40 Whichever Route the State Chooses, It Would Go through Someone's Backyard ... 40 Proposed Traverse City Bypass: Citizens Create Workable Blueprint to Ease Congestion, Save Money ... 41 Oil and Gas Project Poison Gas Continues to Menace Residents ... 42 Organizers Working to Keep Jordan Valley Off-Limits to Drilling ... 43 Coastal Drilling Update: Will Congress Enact a Ban? ... 44 Lawmakers Pass Five Reform Bills, but Let Too Many Good Ones Go ... 45 Departments From the Field ... 3 Letters to the Institute ... 4 Membership Snapshot: An Interview with Jim Maturen ... 46 Welcome, Members and Friends! ... 47, 48 At the Institute: A New Chairman for the Board and More Staff to Advance our Projects ... 49, 50 New Grants ... 50 Publication of the Great Lakes Bulletin is supported by grants from the Frey Foundation, the Alpern Foundation, the C.S. Mott Foundation, and the Michigan Environmental Council. Opinions:Guest articles and letters represent the positions of the authors and not necessarily those of the Michigan Land Use Institute. Membership:Basic membership in the Michigan Land Use Institute is $25 per year. Membership options also are available for low- income households. A subscription to the Great Lakes Bulletin is included as a benefit of membership.Articles & Letters:Submissions are welcome and may be excerpted due to space limitations. Corrections: The Great Lakes Bulletin strives to maintain the highest journalistic standards and every effort is made to ensure accuracy. Readers are encouraged to bring any errors of fact to our attention. Corrections will be included with the next update. Reprints: Copyright © 1999. All rights reserved. Please contact the Michigan Land Use Institute for permission to reprint or otherwise distribute articles, in full or part, from this publication.