Mary Muter

B.Sc.-Nursing; Public Health, Cert.

Mary represents three organizations that are actively engaged in protecting the health of Georgian Bay She is vice-president and chair, Environment for the Georgian Bay Association (GBA). She is the Georgian Baykeeper and also a representative of the GBA Foundation that funds the Georgian Baykeeper as well as other educational and research projects in the area. However she is primarily the face of GBA where she has spearheaded much of its advocacy work in such as areas as water quality, water levels, air quality, invasive species, and wetlands protection. GBA is an umbrella organization representing 22 cottage associations from Port Severn to the North Channel and some 18,000 individual residents. Her tireless efforts have brought government attention to hitherto unacknowledged problems: erosion in the St Clair River, which has hugely increased its conveyance capacity; transboundary air pollution, which is responsible for air quality days in remote areas of the Bay that rival those in Toronto a city of four million people; scientific attention to Georgian Bay’s top quality wetlands; the establishment of on-going water quality monitoring in townships up and down the Bay. Mary has extensive contacts in governments, all levels, NGOs in both Canada and the U.S. and among the many thousands of citizens on the upper Great Lakes Mary has been made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in recognition of her Great Lakes work.