The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project (GLSRP) is warning beachgoers along the Lake Superior shoreline to take caution due to frigid water temperatures. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-lake-superior
A $400,000 grant will help scientists at the University of Wisconsin Madison Extension Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and University of Minnesota Duluth’s Natural Resources Research Institute conduct high-frequency water monitoring of the St. Louis River Estuary in 2023 and 2024. Read and listen to the full story by Hometown Focus.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-stlouis-river
Federal prosecutors filed misdemeanor charges against a man who is accused of diverting a river within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-platte-river
The federal government reports it will invest nearly C$2.5 billion (US$1.8 billion) for the renewal of its small ship fleet through the acquisition of up to 61 vessels. Read the full story by The Maritime Executive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230526-canada-coast-guard
There are 17 species of invasive fish that Michigan officials are monitoring. Read the full story by WDIV – TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-invasive-fish
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service has begun ridding Great Lakes tributaries of invasive sea lamprey by applying lampricide. These treatments happen every two to three years, with the most recent being in 2021. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-lamprey
The “Beach Closings” Beneficial Use Impairment, used by the Remedial Action Plan program to indicate water quality issues in parts of the Niagara River caused by human sources of bacterial pollution, has officially been declared “not impaired.” Read the full story by the Niagara On The Lake Advance.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-niagara-river
Steel production dipped by 3,000 tons in the Great Lakes region last week, the second straight weekly decrease. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-steel
Canada is “extremely concerned” about the potential fate of the Line 5 pipeline, emissaries warned Tuesday in advance of a Wisconsin court hearing that threatens to shut down what they call a vital cross-border oil and gas corridor. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-line5
The Superior National Forest and three northeastern Minnesota Chippewa tribes have made a first-of-its-kind agreement, one that gives the tribes a stronger voice in managing national forest and federal trust land that was ceded to the federal government nearly 170 years ago. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-superior-forest
A project to bring drinking water from Lake Michigan to Waukesha, Wisconsin is now 90% complete. Read and listen to the full story by WISN-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-waukesha
Deforestation, contaminated air, polluted water and the loss of wetlands are a growing concern, Ontario’s auditor general concluded in a “state of the environment report” released Tuesday. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-water-quality
A 639-foot Great Lakes freighter ran aground Wednesday morning on the east end of Belle Isle, just feet from the shoreline. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-freighter
After three decades of decline, the charter industry in Lake Erie is starting to rebound. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230517-charter-industry
U.S. representatives Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, are leading a bipartisan group of 15 House members from Ohio and Michigan urging U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to support a proposal for the Great Lakes Clean Hydrogen Hub. Read the full story by the Sentinel Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-hyrdogen-hub
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a moderate algal bloom with a severity level of 2-6 on a scale of 1-10 for western Lake Erie this summer. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-algal-bloom
Back-to-back court dates scheduled for this month could determine whether a proposed consent decree between the state, feds, and five sovereign tribes will cause drastic impacts to parts of our Great Lakes fishery. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-tribal-fishing
Researchers and local officials are using unusual methods to keep invasive carp from intruding into the Great Lakes and other waterways. Read the full story by the Smithsonian Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-invasive-carp
Public trust regarding access to, and quality of, the Lake Erie Watershed is one of the most critical issues Cleveland and Northeast Ohio will face in the future. Read the full story by Crain’s Cleveland Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-lake-erie
In Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s rivers that converge downtown and feed into Lake Michigan were once dumping grounds for industrial pollution. A remediation project is helping to restore the Milwaukee Estuary. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-remediation
Heavy spring flooding has made Line 5 an “imminent threat” to Lake Superior and a key Indigenous watershed in Wisconsin, lawyers argued Tuesday in an emergency motion to shut down the controversial cross-border pipeline. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-line5
Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River that flows into the bay of Green Bay was one of the many places throughout the Great Lakes polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls. A new book examines the battles behind one of the largest, most divisive PCB river cleanups in history. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230510-pcbs
A female Great Lakes piping plover with the distinction of being current oldest living individual of her species has been spotted at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-plovers
The Alliance for the Great Lakes will kick off its 20th year of beach cleanups in Chicago, Illinois this weekend. Read the full story by WLS- TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-chicago-cleanup
Over half the land in Michigan is occupied by forests. The majority of that wilderness — 20 million acres — is in the hands of private citizens. This land is vital to keeping the state’s natural resources bountiful, including one of the largest freshwater supplies in the world, the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WWTV – TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-forests
More cruise vessels traveled to or from Milwaukee last year than any other year in recent history, said Port Milwaukee’s latest annual report. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-cruise-activity
On Saturday, April 22 (Earth Day), Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper will be organizing the second annual Great Lakes Cleanup – Spring Sweep, to take place in Buffalo, NY. Read the full story by Buffalo Rising.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-buffalo
After conducting two public meetings and a public survey, Indiana DNR is implementing a new stocking strategy for Chinook salmon in Lake Michigan this month, stocking 75,000 Chinook salmon in East Chicago, 100,000 in the Little Calumet River, and 100,000 in Trail Creek. Read the full story by KPC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-salmon
According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, PFAS contamination has been found in groundwater at 59 closed landfills in 41 counties at levels that exceed the Minnesota Department of Health’s health-based guidance values for PFAS. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-pfas
As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is collaborating with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on two coastal wetland restoration projects at Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area in Sandusky County. Read the full story by USA Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-wetlands-restoration
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has cut a $75,000 annual grant that helped the Hamilton Conservation Authority offset the cost of monitoring the water quality of five creeks flowing into Cootes Paradise. Read the full story by The Spec.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230421-monitoring-cut
The first piping plover to return to the Great Lakes region this spring has been reported at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, marking the official start of another breeding season for the federally endangered shorebird. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-piping-plover
Researchers at the University of Toledo are making significant strides in tracking invasive species of fish in area rivers and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WEWS- TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-invasives-tracking
Three ships were lost to the waters of Lake Superior more than 100 years ago, claiming the lives of more than two dozen people. Two of the three ships have now been found. Read the full story by WJMN – TV – Escanaba, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-shipwrecks
The USDA Forest Service announced Tuesday that it is investing $1.16 million to support 11 Wisconsin restoration projects. Read the full story by WLUK – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-wisconsin-restoration
The first ocean vessel of the 2023 international shipping season came from the Netherlands to the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-vessel-arrival
The Lake Huron Coastal Centre will hold its biennial conference delving into the coastal sustainability challenges and solutions for Lake Huron in Grand Bend, Ontario, early next month. Read the full story by the Owen Sound Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-sustainability-conference
A coalition of Democratic politicians, labor unions and environmental groups is advocating for a plan that would put an offshore wind farm off the coast of Lake Michigan on Chicago’s South Side. Read the full story by Capital News Illinois.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-offshore-wind
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources released about 25,000 young brown trout into the channel between Manistee Lake and Lake Michigan last week. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-brown-trout
Leaders from 51 tribal nations, including some in Michigan, blasted Canada’s support of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline last week. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230412-line-5
The price tag to build a new mine near Marathon, Ontario has escalated, but Generation Mining is primed and ready to start construction pending the arrival of key government permits. Read the full story by Northern Ontario Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-mining
Smelt anglers are gathering this spring for what could be their last outings at a favored spot along the Milwaukee, Wisconsin lakefront. A dredge containment facility is being built at the site. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-cdf
The groups behind Chicago’s planned overhaul of a key portion of the iconic Lakeshore Drive have revealed the latest renderings of a project that’s set to add much-needed protective barriers and green space along the city’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Read and hear the full story by Archinect.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-chicaco-lakefront-project
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will continue conducting its annual fish surveys using electrofishing methods. Read the full story by Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-electrofishing
Lake Erie barely froze this year, causing major issues for ice anglers. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-ice-fishing
One of the world’s last grand Edwardian passenger steamships will make a triumphant arrival at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Ontario later this year. Read the full story by Ottawa Business Journal .
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-historic-ship
Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Orchard Beach State Park hasn’t had a beach since 2017. That’s when high water levels came up to the 100-foot bluff that the park sits atop and began eating away at it. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-beach-restoration
The Canadian Environmental Law Association is giving the federal government a thumbs-up for moving ahead with a Winnipeg-based special agency to oversee the protection of the country’s fresh-water supply. The association “supports the federal investment in advancing science and knowledge on fresh water, and the distribution of those funds to a range of high-priority watersheds across the country, including the Great Lakes.” Read the full story by the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-winnipeg
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University shows that people who live in neighborhoods along Chicago’s interstates — particularly I-290, I-90 and I-94 — and in communities directly next to Lake Michigan are exposed to more air pollution than residents in the rest of the city. Read the full story by WTTW -TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230403-air-pollution
A public meeting, hosted by the City of Toledo, Ohio and project partners, presented a feasibility study currently underway to assess restoration options for the channelized Duck Creek, which runs through the Collins Park Golf Course. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230324-collins-park
