The results of a 1997 internal U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service (an agency within the USDA) survey, released by PEER, found more than 60 percent of the over three million wetland determinations done by NRCS on agricultural lands are totally inaccurate. Yet, EPA managers, with full knowledge of the high rates of inaccuracy, directed their own field staff to consider NRCS determinations valid for purposes of enforcing Clean Water Act wetland protection rules and prohibited staff from conducting any review of even the most inadequate determinations.

ELMHURST, Ill. - Visitors to the Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council's website, http://www.great-lakes.org/index.html totaled 114,008 for July -an increase of 76% over July 1998, reported Council President Dan Thomas. It also was a 47 % increase for the year.

Salmon Unlimited of Illinois now has its own website on the Internet. It is:

http://home.att.net/~salmonunlimited/ according to Dale Carr, club spokesperson. Carr reports that he and member Mark Stumpf are responsible for the home page.

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Sea Grant's popular website,

http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish

now has more photos, information and a wider range of topics.