Western Great Lakes forests Western Great Lakes forests The Western Great Lakes forests is a terrestrial ecoregion as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. It is within the Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests ecozone of North America, in the United States' states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba. The Western Great Lakes forests, in large part, lie in the northwestern Great Lakes Basin near the shores of Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, including the entire Upper peninsula of Michigan and large parts of Northern Wisconsin, around Lake Superior into much of northern Minnesota and a
Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (formerly known as Zaire), and Rwanda. Its main purpose is to promote regional economic cooperation and integration. The CEPGL controls the following institutions: Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries The Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (ECGLC) (in French CEPGL - "Communauté Économique des Pays des Grand Lacs") is a sub-regional organization with multiple purposes created by the signing of the Agreement of Gisenyi in Rwanda on September 20, 1976, aiming at ensuring the safety of member states, favoring the creation and development of activities of public interest, promoting the trades and traffic of persons and possessions, and