The Great Lakes Water Studies Institute at Northwestern Michigan College will host a workshop related to environmental laws on the Great Lakes June 18-20 in Traverse City.

Legal Tools to Protect Coastal Environments will provide a combination of legal analysis and field experience designed to help protect Great Lakes shoreline-area environments.

Workshop information and application materials are available at www.nmc.edu/glwsi/legal-tools.

The workshop has been funded by the national Sea Grant Law Center. There are no program fees.

For more information, call 995-1722.