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Pictured Rocks National Shoreline officials say they are struggling to keep up with the crowds of visitors that flock to the picturesque shoreline in Michigan’s upper peninsula which was the country’s first designated national lakeshore in 1966. Last year, more than 1.3 million people visited the park which is seasonally staffed for around 400,000-500,000 visitors. Read the full story by MLive.

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In the closing round of the 2022 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, all three finalists offered ideas for dealing with threats to water supply. Innovation in water is one of Wisconsin’s most vital resources for many reasons and offers hope in the years ahead as pressures mount on the supply and quality of fresh water in Wisconsin and beyond. Read the full story by Madison.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220606-wisconsin-innovation

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Flooding on the Minnesota-Ontario border is a disaster of historic proportions and causing millions of dollars in damages. Measurements of the flooding have topped those of the record 1950 flood that have been measured among other lakes and rivers in the watershed and increasing concern about leached mine pollutants. Read the full story by StarTribune.

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According to the results from a Minnesota Walleye population survey, the walleye population in the St. Louis River Estuary is strong and growing. Read the full story by The Bedmidji Pioneer.

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Anglers and people using the St. Marys Rapids in Sault Ste. Marie, ON are advised that the area will see the highest flow since 2019 after June 6. The compensating works gate movements are scheduled for June 6 and will increase the flow to approximately 720 cubic meters per second, or 25.4 thousand cubic feet per second. Read the full story by SooToday.

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Four years ago, fisheries management biologist Heather Hettinger began stocking Elk Lake with brown trout. In 2018, she stocked 40,000 fish. In 2019, 40,000 more. The count of brown trout stocked into Elk Lake is now over 180,000. And yet, according to the reports Hettinger receives in her role with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, very few have been caught. Read the full story by Record-Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220606-trout-missing

Patrick Canniff

Minnesota state legislators approved a bill funding more than 40 high-priority conservation projects, including culvert improvements benefiting brook trout populations as a part of Minnesota’s Outdoor Heritage Fund. Read the full story by WTIP – Grand Marais, MN.

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A new study from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, projects a roasty future in Canadian cities as temperatures continue to rise, warming on average at twice the global rate. Read the full story by Toronto Sun.

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For more than 100 years we managed to foul the world’s largest freshwater resource to the point that their waters were undrinkable, unswimmable, unfishable. The GLRI is not a debt we are pushing onto future taxpayers, it is a debt we are paying off from our past actions. And it makes economic sense, as restoration dollars return two to three times their investment in value to our region and our nation. Read the full story by The Hill.

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In a brief announcement on social media, news was shared late last week that Monty the piping plover has died. Monty’s unexpected death left members of Chicago’s birding community stunned, as well as those who’ve been following his romance with mate Rose from afar for the past four years. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.

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Michigan communities have reached an inflection point. After decades of maintenance and managerial failures, water systems across the state have deteriorated to the point of crisis. Read the full story by NPR.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-michigan

Patrick Canniff

Forty years after the goalpost set by the federal government under the Clean Water Act, Indiana couldn’t be farther from the finish line. Indiana maintains the most polluted waterways out of any state in the country. Of the 62,500 miles of rivers and streams in the state, more than 24,000 miles (38%) are impaired by pollutants. Read the full story by The Herald Bulletin.

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Electric Vehicle drivers will have more spots to charge up along Lake Michigan starting this summer. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it will add 30 EV charging stations at state parks along the Lake Michigan shore, as part of an effort to create a network of chargers encircling the lake. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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According to a Wisconsin study recently published in the Atmospheric Environment Journal, high fossil fuel emissions are traveling from coastal cities by lake breeze to areas surrounding Lake Michigan and creating concern for people with major health issues such as asthma. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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Among the issues the development team members will address are public access to the waterfront and environmental concerns related to wetland mitigation. Construction has already begun on the $110 million Harbor 31 project. Among its features are a subdivision, senior housing, marina, apartments, retail and boat storage and sales. Read the full story by Mlive.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-development

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The Cross Lake community in New York State (located 30 minutes from Syracuse in north western New York) are demanding a solution from state officials after they were left underwater for months last summer while others along the Seneca River remained relatively dry. Read the full story by WSTM – Syracuse, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-flooding

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Wisconsin’s Kenosha Sport Fishing and Conservation Association was created in 1970 with a specific request to create a rearing pond for the purpose of raising fingerling Chinook Salmon. The group raises them for a release into the Pike River, which eventually sends many of them to Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.

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Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is doubling down on the claim that the continuing operation of the Line 5 pipeline is “non-negotiable” despite continued opposition across Michigan and Wisconsin. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220509-line-5

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Many of Michigan’s 1,773 cities, villages and townships are reaching a crisis point because of a decline in federal dollars for water and sewer infrastructure that’s made worse by the state’s centralized taxing system. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Patrick Canniff

The loss of 800 megawatts of carbon-free energy from the nuclear plant along the Lake Michigan shoreline near South Haven, MI (122 miles NE of Chicago) at the end of May is likely to result in more greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere as the electric sector pivots to natural gas while more solar and wind generation comes online. Read the full story by MLive.

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Patrick Canniff

Some officials are becoming concerned about the future of walleye fishing in Michigan after a local fisherman caught a sick fish along with several others in Ohio waters. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI.

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Algoma Central Corp. is the newest naming sponsor for one of the two ice-pads inside Walker Sports and Abilities Centre at Canada Games Park. The company headquartered in St. Catharines operates the largest fleet of dry and liquid bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.

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In decades past, almost every major Great Lakes port city offered a specialty grocery supplying freighters. Recently, a Cleveland, Ohio-based fleet grocer ceased operation, leaving only three U.S.-based Great Lakes fleet grocers in operation. Those are located in Duluth, Minnesota, Sault Ste. Marie, and at Alpena’s Marine Market. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220509-grocer-history

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Fred Wiseman, of Findlay, OH (located about 100 miles south of Detroit, MI) sailed from Detroit to Florida last year. The 3,800-mile trip took around two months and included travel through Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence Seaway and along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Read the full story by The Courier.

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Many local organizations have turned Earth Day into “Earth Month” by dedicating the month of April to cleaning up the community. The Lakeshore Cleanup Coalition participated in the 2022 Great Lakes CleanUP, a collaborative trash removal effort to protect habitats throughout the Great Lakes Basin. Read the full story by ODC Network.

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Divers from the North Bay Scuba Club in Ontario were gearing up and diving into Lake Nipissing’s Marina boat launch to clean the waters of trash and debris ahead of the boating season. Read the full story by CTV News.

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The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between Canada and the U.S. celebrated its 50th anniversary. The agreement has improved and protected the water quality of the Great Lakes and also improved the lives of millions across the basin. Read the full story by The Welland Tribune.

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The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative announced this past week that it will expand its Resilient Coastal Projects Initiative to include shoreline in West Michigan. The initiative will partner with mayors along the Lake Michigan shoreline to create funding-ready implementation frameworks for priority coastal protection projects with the goal of advancing coastal resilience. Read the full story by News-Review.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-coastal-protection

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On the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Flint water crisis, the city of Flint, Michigan, announced the completion of its $17 million water pipeline project. The new system will ensure the city has a backup water source in case of an emergency. Read the full story by Flint Beat.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-flint

Patrick Canniff

Despite 50 years of working jointly to address water quality challenges, the U.S. and Canada are far from declaring “mission accomplished.” We are still up against toxic algal blooms undermining access to safe drinking water, thousands of tons of plastics and microplastics ending up in our waterways and invasive species wreaking havoc on our fisheries and infrastructure. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator.

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A Michigan woman started with the goal to pick up one million pieces of trash and instead launched Great Lakes Great Responsibility, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting Great Lakes freshwater sources. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-pollution

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Started by a former National Parks Service ranger, the first and only tour service authorized to lead tours into the wilderness areas of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is educating and bringing small groups to observe piping plovers. Read the full story by The Ticker.

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Patrick Canniff

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is hoping not to see a repeat of last year when it comes to air quality. Much of the smoke that afflicted Minnesotans drifted south from Canada pooling over Lake Superior and then was being cycled back into the Duluth area. Read the full story by Duluth News-Tribune.

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The Biggest Week in American Birding is just a week and a half away, and that means tens of thousands of people are flocking to northwest Ohio to view the return of migratory birds. Read the full story by WTVG-TV –  Toledo, OH.

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Great Lakes research vessels will be visiting ports across the Great Lakes this year as a part of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ effort to conducting annual fish surveys. Read the full story by The Daily Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-ship

Patrick Canniff

In less than a decade, the city of Joliet, Illinois, home to 150,000 people and roughly 45 minutes southwest of Chicago, could run out of water. The city is facing a looming water crisis as the patchwork of underground wells and aquifers it currently uses for municipal water is drying up, leading elected officials to join with other municipalities to create a regional water commission now focused on one looming goal: connecting these communities to Lake Michigan water. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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In western Michigan, sprawled like a gigantic swimming pool atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, is the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant, which uses simple technology to produce electricity for 1.6 million households: water is piped from a lower reservoir to an upper one, then released downhill through supersized turbines that generate electricity. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-energy

Patrick Canniff

Rising water temperatures and pollutants such as microplastics and road salt are threatening the health of Ontario’s Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. Read the full story by the Midland Mirror.

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The world’s two oldest-known common loons once again have returned to Michigan, and if they choose each other as mates, it will mark a record 26 consecutive summers together for the pair. Read the full story by MLive.

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As the weather warms up, Ontarians are looking to get back outside and to the lakes, with fishing being a favorite pastime for many. While the Great Lakes provide many great fishing spots, the lakes have struggled in a battle against invasive carp species, and anglers must take caution against contributing to the risk of invasion. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-carp

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Round gobies, an invasive fish, are of particular concern in the Great Lakes because of the impact they can have on the sporting fishing industry. Gobies first established themselves in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and continued their eastern migration into the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by the Poughkeepsie Journal.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-goby

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The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board, the organization that controls outflows from Lake Ontario, indicated this week that it is not worried that flooding will occur on the lake’s New York shore this year based on current water levels. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-flooding

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The People’s Water Board Coalition in Benton Harbor, Michigan, is calling on state and local officials to be more transparent with the public about the quality of the town’s drinking water over concerns about bacterial contamination. Read the full story by The Herald-Palladium.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-benton-harbor

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The Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy has gifted nearly 1,300 acres of pristine highlands wilderness in Marquette County to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to protect the property from degradation and maintain public access. Read the full story by Up North Voice.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220420-land-gift

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Canada is back at the binational table with funding in the 2022 federal budget to protect the Great Lakes fishery. It’s the first time in 40 years the federal government has fully funded the binational treaty organization Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Read the full story by Welland Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-glfc-funding

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Lake Huron Coastal Centre Stewardship Technician Alyssa Bourassa says 83.3 per cent of the twenty-four lake water samples that were collected from Lake Huron at the beginning and the end of last year’s Coast Watcher season, contained micro-plastics. And when the samples were tested in 2018, 95.7 per cent of the samples contained micro-plastics. Read the full story by CKNX-TV – Windsor, ON.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-plastic-pollution

Patrick Canniff

The debate over the expansion of a toxic waste landfill in Niagara County, which is going on 20 years, could soon come to a close. The first in a series of hearings on the matter will take place Monday, April 11. Since 2003, local groups fought to stop CWM Chemical Services and Waste Management from expanding their toxic waste landfills in the town of Porter, NY. Read the full story by Spectrum News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-pollution

Patrick Canniff

High and dry for easy viewing this summer will be one of Michigan’s newest exposed wrecks, the Jennie and Annie. The 137-foot schooner, built in 1863, was rounding Sleeping Bear Point in November 1872 when gale-force winds pushed it into the shallows and reefs of Lake Michigan’s notorious Manitou Passage. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-shipwrecks

Patrick Canniff

The City of Defiance, Defiance College and Sen. Sherrod Brown have worked together to secure funding to form the Ohio Tri-River Research Alliance in Defiance, OH. The alliance will receive $500,000 in government funding to research systemic problems associated with the Upper Maumee River Watershed which is the primary source of drinking water for the City of Defiance. Read the full story by The Crescent-News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-river-habs

Patrick Canniff

West Grand Traverse Bay officially hasn’t frozen over this winter, and long-term trends show that’s becoming the norm. In recent decades, those freeze-overs are happening less frequently; averages from 1980 on show it happened about 40 percent of the time, compared to nearly 80 percent of winters in the preceding decades. Read the full story by The Record-Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-ice-coverage

Patrick Canniff