I remember well the huge numbers of migrant and wintering water-loving birds that enlivened the impoundment at Lorain for so many years, and the many changes it's been through since. Humans have hogged the Lake Erie waterfront in Ohio for a long time, and even the less developed areas that remain, mostly in the western basin, have been maintained in some very unnatural ways; elsewhere, the dredge-spoil impoundments have at times been natural enough to benefit these birds, none perhaps more importantly than that at Lorain. An official for the Port Authority has sent me a copy of the Master Plan, and while I'd like to see a natural area there, the plan has at least declined to envision uses like wind park, casino, ferry terminal, medical college, etc., for the site, and includes some natural areas. Interested folks can see this document by writing to me, and I can send as an attachment; I don't have a Web address for it, sorry. Or you could write the Port Authority http://www.lorainportauthority.com/ for a file of the "Lorain Dike Disposal Site Master Plan." Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]