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Inland Seas Education launches $11M campaign to expand Great Lakes learning opportunities

On: June 27, 2025

The Inland Seas Education Association is kicking off a fundraising campaign that will be used to develop a new campus, expand their ship capacity, enhance facilities, grow staff, and give students the opportunity to learn about the Great Lakes in a unique way. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-great-lakes-learning

Twin Ports shipping executive tapped to lead seaway development

On: June 27, 2025

A Superior, Wisconsin, native, Mike McCoshen, was sworn in as the new top official at the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-new-official

Trans swimmer Lev Goldberg on preparing for an epic lake-crossing and becoming a trailblazer

On: June 27, 2025

Transgender swimmer, Lev Goldberg, is training for a record-setting swim across the Great Lakes, with the goal of increasing trans representation and inspiring trans youth. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-record-setting-swimmer

Restoring a river, reconnecting a community along the shores of Lake Michigan

On: June 27, 2025

In Gary, Indiana, Audubon and partners are working on a vision for restoration rooted in community and climate resilience. Partners have come together to restore a 400-acre natural area as part of a broader 2,500-acre revitalization vision for the West Branch of the Little Calumet River. Read the full story by Audubon.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-river-restoration

Wake boats make big waves, bigger clashes on Michigan lakes. Time for limits?

On: June 27, 2025

Wakeboard boats are gaining popularity in the Great Lakes region. Lakeshore residents are alarmed at the resulting shoreline erosions it causes and what it means for their property over time. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-wake-boats

Could federal cuts impact invasive species monitoring on Lake Michigan? A special report.

On: June 27, 2025

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memo on May 9th acknowledging the dangers of invasive carp. But Great Lakes leaders remain concerned about the consequences of cuts in federal funding. Read the full story by the Herald Times Reporter.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250627-federal-cuts

Great Lakes piping plovers break record for nesting pairs – again

On: June 16, 2025

Great Lakes piping plovers are getting busy replenishing the species’ numbers. With 82 pairs confirmed, conservation officials stated this year is a record-breaking nesting season for the federally endangered shorebird. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-plover-record

BGSU scientists conducting unique research on plastic pollution in Lake Erie

On: June 16, 2025

As a major transportation hub for plastic, Lake Erie’s water system is prone to plastic exposure. This summer scientists are studying how pre-production plastics can leach chemicals when they find their way into water systems. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-erie-plastic-research

New book digs into Indigenous cuisine through archaeology, culture and ecology

On: June 16, 2025

A new book explores wild rice’s role in Indigenous cuisine, its habitats and its deep connection to Indigenous identity in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-new-book

Can Arctic grayling make a comeback in Michigan? Work to reintroduce fish continues

On: June 16, 2025

An effort to restore grayling in Michigan is entering a new phase. Michigan DNR provided 400,000 eggs to be released by Native American tribes to stock in rivers as the reintroduction plan moves ahead. Read the full story by Sault Ste. Marie Evening News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-grayling-restoration

Heavy rain causes sewage overflow in Lake Erie at Edgewater Beach, Northeast Ohio sewer district says

On: June 16, 2025

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District is warning people to avoid Lake Erie at Edgewater Beach after heavy rains caused a sewer overflow. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-sewage-overflow

The legend Of Chicago’s Great Lake jumper: A hangover cure, frostbite and 5 years of daily leaps

On: June 16, 2025

A Chicago native known as the Great Lake Jumper leaps into Lake Michigan every morning for the solitude and a splash of rejuvenation. This past weekend marked five years of daily lake jumps. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-chicago-jumper

Harmful toxin makes early arrival in Lake Erie

On: June 16, 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has detected levels of the harmful toxin, microcystin, in Lake Erie weeks earlier than it is usually detected in routine water tests. Read the full story by the BG Independent News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-erie-toxin-early

Wisconsin’s 250 lake districts implement boating ordinances, manage water quality and habitat restoration

On: June 16, 2025

Every summer, boaters and swimmers descend on Wisconsin’s 15,000 lakes to vacation and frolic in the water, but this comes with a cost. Homeowners on these lakes are taking steps to protect water quality, regulate boating and restore habitats. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-wisconsin-water-protections

See how chilly Great Lakes waters bully Michigan’s summer-lovers

On: June 16, 2025

While most are ready for summer temperatures, the Great Lakes want to hold that heat back. The Great Lakes water temperatures aren’t much colder than normal right, but they are still cold compared to the air temperatures of this time of year. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-chilly-waters

Shipwrecks aren’t just Up North. 5 shipwrecks in Michigan waters close to Lansing

On: June 16, 2025

An estimated 6,000 boats, ships or other vessels have sunk in the Great Lakes, with about 1,500 of them in Michigan’s waters and some within just a 90-minute drive from Lansing. Read the full story by Lansing State Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-michigan-shipwrecks

2 Michigan beaches closed, under contamination advisories going into Father’s Day weekend

On: June 16, 2025

Beaches are tested regularly in Michigan by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and their statuses are updated frequently. Over Father’s Day weekend beaches in Chippewa and Muskegon County were closed for high bacteria levels. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250616-beach-closings

New PFAS guidelines spark more ‘do not eat’ warnings for Michigan fish

On: June 11, 2025

Michigan health officials have dramatically reduced the amount of PFAS-tainted fish they consider safe to eat, tripling the number of waterbodies where anglers are warned against eating their catch. Ninety-eight water bodies in the state are now subject to “do not eat” advisories. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-michigan-pfas-guidlines

Attempt to hobble successful H2Ohio program makes no sense: Marnie Urso and Rich Cochran

On: June 11, 2025

The most recent budget proposals from both the Ohio House and Senate drastically cut funding for H2Ohio, a program with bipartisan support that has helped restore and maintain healthy wetlands, croplands, and initiate river cleanup efforts. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-ohio-funding-cuts

Tiny fish tags helped identify oldest recorded lake trout in Lake Michigan

On: June 11, 2025

A 35-inch, 16-pound lake trout caught by an angler in 2023 out of the port of Sheboygan, Wisconsin contained a coded wire tag that was the oldest on record according to the USFWS. Read the full story by My UP Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-oldest-lake-trout

Duluth EPA scientists rally support to stave off any closure of Great Lakes lab

On: June 11, 2025

The Trump administration is proposing to shutter the EPA’S Office of Research and Development in Duluth, which would leave over 170 without jobs and jeopardize public access to clean air and water. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-epa-defunding

Commercial whitefish fishery approved for Lake Huron

On: June 11, 2025

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has issued Serafin Fish Company a commercial license to harvest lake whitefish from southern Lake Huron, marking a new era for the Harbor Beach port. Read the full story by The Times Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-huron-fishery

800-foot freighter grounded near St. Marys River, no pollution reported

On: June 11, 2025

Crews are assessing damage after an 806-foot freighter loaded with 29,700 tons of stone bound for Marquette, Michigan grounded in the St. Marys River. The Interlake Steamship Company said the incident occurred as it was making a turn. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-freighter-grounded

Conservation groups amp up Great Lakes preservation efforts

On: June 11, 2025

Several stewardship organizations within the eastern half of the Great Lakes basin are taking new steps to reduce pollution and raise awareness related to microplastics and other chemicals in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by BTPM – Buffalo, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-conservation-efforts

How much of the Great Lakes does Michigan own?

On: June 11, 2025

The public doesn’t own the water of the Great Lakes, however the lake floors are where the states have a claim. But what percentage of the lake belongs to what state? Read the full story by WGRD – Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-lake-ownership

Superior Watershed Partnership recognized for 25 years of protecting the Great Lakes

On: June 11, 2025

On Monday, an organization focused on protecting the Great Lakes was recognized for decades of work across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-partnership-recognition

Meet the men, women guiding Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary

On: June 11, 2025

The citizens serving on the Sanctuary Advisory Council for the new Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary have backgrounds as diverse as the people who will enjoy the sanctuary in the years to come. The council includes retirees, lawyers and teachers, college professors, doctors, police officers, and more. Read the full story by the Oswego County News Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250611-ontario-marine-sanctuary-leaders

3 piping plover nests welcome new chicks along the Great Lakes shoreline

On: June 6, 2025

The stars of the shoreline are starting their summer debut. At least 24 chicks have hatched from seven nests at sites around Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, according to the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-piping-plover-chicks

New wetland could show how Michigan can reduce agricultural runoff polluting Lake Erie

On: June 6, 2025

Nearly a year ago, unproductive farmland at the headwaters of Michigan’s River Raisin watershed was turned into a wetland to filter phosphorus runoff before it reaches Lake Erie. Now, deep-rooted grasses and plants friendly to bees and butterflies are beginning to make the 300 acres look lush. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-wetland-filtering-phosphorus

New book takes fresh look at the Great Lakes

On: June 6, 2025

A new book, “Great Lakes in 50 Maps,” looks at our Great Lakes regional freshwater features, the land that surrounds them, and how their interplay affects how people live. Read the full story by Michigan Public.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-great-lakes-book

A look back at the 18 days when there were six Great Lakes

On: June 6, 2025

For a brief period in 1998, Lake Champlain, a freshwater lake between New York and Vermont, was considered a Great Lake. That status was quickly rescinded after controversy over its significantly smaller size compared to the five currently designated Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Record.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-six-great-lakes

Why the Great Lakes are a magnet for Canadian wildfire smoke

On: June 6, 2025

The Great Lakes hold wildfire smoke over the water through a process opposite the way the atmosphere normally works called “trapping inversion.” Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-wildfire-smoke

A great lake, several unnamed lakes and some key lagoons: What to know about Green Bay-area water

On: June 6, 2025

While Lake Michigan and its offshoot, Green Bay, get most of northeastern Wisconsin’s attention, there are many other bodies of water in the area, including the Fox River, an unusual shaped “lagoon” lake, and lakes that have yet to be named. Read the full story by Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-green-bay-facts

Northern Michigan fish company joins Great Lakes initiative to reduce fish waste

On: June 6, 2025

A Northern Michigan fish company is joining forces with a group of leaders from around the Great Lakes to tackle fish waste by finding innovative ways to fully utilize each fish, thereby creating jobs and supporting rural economic development. Read the full story by WBPN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-reduce-fish-waste

How deep is Lake Huron? What to know about parks, fishing and more

On: June 6, 2025

Lake Huron, which runs along much of Michigan’s eastern coast, has the longest coastline of the Great Lakes, and offers opportunities for underwater exploration and waterfront recreation, as well as providing a key link in international shipping and crucial fish habitat. Read the full story by the Lansing State Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-lake-huron

Search for missing plane continues in Lake Superior, nearly 60 years after it disappeared

On: June 6, 2025

Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan’s Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-missing-plane-search

Thunder Bay is bringing its Great Lake shoreline back

On: May 21, 2025

In Ontario, as new industries and governments take shape, efforts to bring Thunder Bay’s shoreline back to a state of good health are critical. Today, Thunder Bay has two benchmarks left to meet in order to be delisted as a Great Lakes Area of Concern. Read the full story by Michigan Public.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-thunder-bay-restoration

Are data centers a threat to the Great Lakes?

On: May 21, 2025

With artificial intelligence and the demand for cloud computing set to grow in the years and decades ahead, technology companies are increasingly eying up the Great Lakes region’s comparatively cooler climate and ample water resources. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-data-center-impacts

Effort to plant 250M trees across Great Lakes region by 2033 began with 27M in 2024

On: May 21, 2025

A massive campaign to plant 250 million trees across the Great Lakes region by 2033 is off and running. Within the first year all goals were exceeded, with an estimated 27 million trees planted. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-tree-planting

Conflict over a blockbuster farm chemical

On: May 21, 2025

The conflict over the weedkiller Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate, has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, affecting fresh water across the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-glyphosate-conflicts

Michigan’s fight against Lake Erie pollution didn’t work. What happens next?

On: May 21, 2025

Michigan and its neighbors have missed a 2025 deadline to curb the farm pollution that feeds toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie, despite 10 years of work and millions of dollars spent on the effort. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-erie-pollution

Sinking cities: Great Lakes cities not immune from under-recognized threat

On: May 21, 2025

A recent study conducted by Columbia University concludes that significant areas of the Earth’s surface are gradually sinking, bringing environmental, social and economic consequences to urban centers in the United States. Great Lakes cities Detroit and Chicago are among those at risk. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-sinking-cities

COMMENTARY: Sturgeon vs salmon: Prioritizing native Great Lakes species

On: May 21, 2025

The conflict between supporting native lake sturgeon versus non-native salmon is coming to a head on the Big Manistee River in Michigan. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-lake-sturgeon

Is Lake Erie very deep? What to know about the shallowest Great Lake

On: May 21, 2025

Lake Erie, the smallest of the Great Lakes, borders only a small strip of southeast Michigan’s coast, but contains rich opportunities for waterfront recreation and exploration. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250521-lake-erie

Trump administration promises Illinois it will pay to keep carp out of the Great Lakes

On: May 14, 2025

A stalemate between President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker that threatened a $1.2 billion plan to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes appears to have been settled after the Trump administration offered assurances it will cover its share of the costs. Read the full story by the Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-trump-backs-brandon-road

EPA, Enbridge say data doesn’t support tribe’s claims that Line 5 project will harm water

On: May 14, 2025

Federal environmental regulators and a Canadian energy firm say data doesn’t support a northern Wisconsin Indigenous Nation’s claim’s that rerouting an oil and gas pipeline will violate water quality standards on its reservation. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-line5-claims

Minnesota Sea Grant again offers free steelhead identification decal

On: May 14, 2025

As spring fishing ramps up on Lake Superior anglers are hitting the water in pursuit of salmonid species. Minnesota Sea Grant is distributing free identification decals for a second year to help anglers distinguish between steelhead, a species that must be released, and other salmon species while they’re out on the water. Read the full story by the Brainerd Dispatch.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-steelhead-id-decal

An $80 million cleanup made Muskegon Lake trendy. Will “eco-gentrification” follow?

On: May 14, 2025

An $80 million cleanup of Muskegon Lake, which connects the city of Muskegon, Michigan, to Lake Michigan, has prompted a wave of redevelopment and a debate about who benefits from publicly funded cleanups. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-muskegon-cleanup

Michigan’s scenic Brockway Mountain Drive opens for 2025 season

On: May 14, 2025

The scenic Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan’s northernmost peninsula is now open for the 2025 season offering offers panoramic views of Lake Superior and surrounding rugged wilderness. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-scenic-drive-open

Water determines Great Lakes region’s economic future

On: May 14, 2025

A new series of collaborative articles will investigate the blue economy in the Great Lakes region. They pose a question central to the region’s future: how can the states, provinces, and tribal nations steward their water to provide jobs and attract businesses without inflicting the severe ecological damage that was a hallmark of earlier periods of development? Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250514-water-articles