----------------------------Original message---------------------------- If those of you in the U.S. were watching the TV news this past weekend, you no doubt heard that the U.S. is about to inaugurate an additiional Great Lake. Senator Leahy of Vermont has attached a rider declaring Lake Champlain to be one of the Great Lakes to a bill that the President is supposed to sign today. The strategy behind this is that Vermont will now be eligible for grant money because it is home to a 'Great Lake'. Well, I'm sure Lake Champlain is pretty great, but (in the view of this old Minnesotan) is isn't one of the Great Lakes! (Hey, we've got a nifty ponding basin out here on the University farm. Let me call my senator ...) Sue Haffner Map Library, CSU Fresno