Stand Up for Great Lakes, a group of three men who’ve paddle boarded across all of five of the Great Lakes, said on Tuesday they have donated $25,200 to the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-stand-up-for-great-lakes
The Army Corps of Engineers is set to start building a barrier near Chicago to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes next October. But Illinois still has not signed a Project Partnership agreement that would make it responsible for problems that arise such as environmental cleanups. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-invasive-carp-barrier
A pair of filmmakers who spent two years shooting footage for a documentary about invasive mussels in the Great Lakes accidentally discovered a 128-year-old shipwreck that vanished in 1895.The wreck is believed to be the Africa, which disappeared in 1895. Read the full story by Business Insider.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-lake-huron-shipwreck
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Friday that officials caught 296 silver carp, 23 grass carp and four bighead carp in what the agency called the largest single capture of invasive carp in Minnesota to date. DNR staff think it is likely the fish moved upstream and didn’t hatch in Minnesota waters. Read the full story by WCCO-TV – Minneapolis, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-invasive-carp
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to generate all of Michigan’s energy from renewable sources by 2040 is meant to limit climate change gases. But the development of a new renewable energy sector to produce methane from liquid manure produced by large livestock feeding operations, also has consequences on the state’s waters. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-manure-energy
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Office of Coastal Management has launched two new online resources to help Ohioans and visitors discover publicly accessible parklands and protected lands along Ohio’s 312-mile Lake Erie shore and along the major rivers that flow into the lake. Read the full story by The Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-erie-shoreline-map
Ohio Rep. Dave Joyce introduced a bill to reauthorize the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act through 2028. The bill would develop and coordinate effective responses to harmful algal blooms and monitor the blooms. Read the full story by the Star Beacon.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-hab-bill
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers say a critical bridge between the bordering states on Lake Superior needs to be replaced. Their transportation departments have requested over $1 billion in federal funding to rebuild the John A. Blatnik Bridge, which connects Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. Read the full story by CBS News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231206-blatnik-bridge
Six companies based in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, have signed the 100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge, a first-of-its-kind international effort asking companies to publicly commit to productively using 100 per cent of each commercially caught Great Lakes fish by 2025. Read the full story by The Chatham Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-100-great-lakes-fish
State and federal officials battling grass carp in Ohio’s Sandusky River have launched a new effort to contain the invasive fish. The Sandusky River Grass Carp Barrier Project, as the project described Monday night is known, is in its first phase: a feasibility study to decide what should be built. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-grass-carp
A celebration is underway for farmers, scientists, and other conservation professionals as they mark the 10-year anniversary of Wisconsin’s “Lower Fox Demonstration Farm Network.” The effort is geared toward improving the quality of the water throughout the region and reducing sediment and phosphorus loading into Green Bay. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-lower-fox-demonstration-farm-network
The Cuyahoga River was labeled an “area of concern” in 1987. Since then, the river has made remarkable progress, eliminating five of its designated shortcomings, the latest having to do with the health of fish. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-cuyahoga-river
Due to a strike of unionized Canadian Seaway workers, the St. Lawrence Seaway is preparing for its latest seasonal closing date in its 64-year history. This has sparked concern among environmentalists along the St. Lawrence River who worry about the safety and regulation of winter navigation. Read the full story by WWT-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-late-seaway-closure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved a plan to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen in the Maumee River Watershed – one of the main drivers of persistent toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Ohio Newsroom.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-algal-blooms
This week, work began on the long-awaited redevelopment of the marina and ferry terminal serving Grand Portage, Minnesota, and Isle Royale. The project includes demolishing the existing site to rehabilitate the dock structures and construct a new boat launch. Read the full story by Bring Me The News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-grand-portage-marina
Officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are pleased with egg harvest efforts this season at the Little Manistee River Weir. Eggs collected at the weir are then sent to fish hatcheries in Michigan where the fish are reared and later stocked throughout the state. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-fishery-egg-collection
A Kingsville, Ontario based brewery has taken the expression ‘having a cold one’ to the extreme. Last winter, The Grove Brewing Company sank 500 bottles of beer to the bottom of Lake Erie and left them to age for three months Nearly a year later, that brew is finally being made available to adventurous craft beer enthusiasts. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-lake-eriebeer
Conservation groups are sounding an alarm that a land swap between the state and a private company along Lake Michigan’s shores could set a harmful precedent for state parks and conserved lands, and are asking Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers for help. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231117-land-swap
The St. Lawrence Seaway has shut down as hundreds of workers walked off the job Sunday. The halt is expected to affect cargo shipments immediately along the artery that runs between Montreal and Lake Erie. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-seaway-strike
In the middle of western Lake Erie, just south of the boundary line for Canadian waters, is a collection of islands where critical environmental research helps protect the shallowest but richest in fish among the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-lake-erie-islands
One of Michigan’s top environmental officials, Teresa Siedel, has accepted a position as chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes office. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-cheif-of-usepa
The Alliance of Rouge Communities recently held a summit to recap restoration efforts in the Great Lakes and talk about what’s coming down the pipeline as the result of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding. Read the full story by the Press & Guide.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-alliance-of-rouge
A bill introduced in the Michigan Legislature last week could expand commercial fishing in state waters. House Bill 5108 would allow commercial harvest of certain sport fish previously off-limits to commercial fishers, including species like lake trout, walleye, and yellow perch. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-commercial-fishing
Invasive plants and animals are all around us. The Plain Dealer recently talked with local experts to learn more about invasive plants and animals inhabiting Northeast Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-invasive-species
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has lent her support to the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ efforts to shut down part of Enbridge Energy Company’s Line 5. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-line-5
People in the water during potential rip current conditions at public beaches in New Buffalo, Michigan, will now be subject to fines starting at $500. Boaters also face the same penalty if heading to Lake Michigan in the city’s public channel during lake conditions viewed as too dangerous for their watercraft. Read the full story by the South Bend Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-swimming-fines
Trebuchets and soaring gourds continue to be a popular combination every fall in Clayton, New York, drawing in thousands who watch as machines send pumpkins flying into the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231023-punkin-chunkin
Federal attempts to clean up pollution in the Great Lakes region are increasing property values, according to a study from the University of Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-pollution-remediation
The Detroit News spent four months exploring the ways climate change will send ripple effects through the Great Lakes and their ecosystems. For this series, the article highlights an issue on each Great Lake, interviewing those on the front lines of climate-related research. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-climate-change
Republicans in the Michigan Senate are sending a letter to federal and state officials urging the start of a pipeline tunnel project under the Straits of Mackinac. The Great Lakes Tunnel project would house the Line 5 pipeline that currently runs exposed along the lakebed. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-line-5
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revisiting proposed regulations for ballast water standards on ships to reduce the spread of invasive species. That could mean newer vessels on the Great Lakes would have to install treatment systems. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-ballast-water
Three commercial fishing companies in Door County, Wisconsin are signing on to an innovative new project on the Great Lakes called 100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge. This initiative has a goal of using 100% of each fish by the year 2025. Read the full story by WBAY-TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-100-great-lakes-fish
In the quest to defend Michigan’s rivers against climate change, government officials and fish advocates are increasingly zeroing in on a simple strategy that can lower water temperatures by several degrees and open up miles of new habitat: removing dams. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-dam-removal
The Great Lakes Museum has announced the S.S. Keewatin, the oldest remaining Edwardian-era steamliner in the world, will move from the shipyard where it is currently being refurbished to its new home in Kingston, Ontario on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Read the full story by the Kingstonist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-s.s.-keewatin
Five decades ago, the Cuyahoga River was a symbol of all that was wrong with the environment. Now it’s believed to be clean enough for the ancient lake sturgeon to make its home. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-lake-sturgeon
As the days grow shorter and the temperatures tumble, it won’t be much longer before Lake Michigan’s buoys will get pulled in for the season. This winter, however, a new type of buoy is hoping to make sure scientists have access to the vital weather data these buoys provide all year. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-weather-alert-bouy
For decades, Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula was home to more than 100 copper mines and the mining waste has impacted the shores of Lake Superior. The U.S. Forest Service is hoping that a specialized poplar tree will remove the heavy metals from the soil and stabilize the area, with the goal of preventing the stamp sands from shifting further. Read the full story by WXPR – Rhinelander, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231020-mining-waste
The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks well preserved. Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-shipwrecks-quagga-mussels
Only about 15 percent of the cumulative lake floor in the Great Lakes has ever been mapped in significant detail. Hoping to fix that is the project Lakebed 2030, an ambitious effort to map the totality of the Great Lakes by the end of the decade. Read the full story by The Leelanau Ticker.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-mapping-project
More than 9 million fish from state hatcheries have been added to the Great Lakes and inland waters across Michigan so far this year as part of the state’s annual stocking program. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-michigan-fish-stocking
t has been claimed there are 10,000 wrecks in the Great Lakes. Those in the Lower Georgian Bay represent an interesting glimpse into Ontario’s rich marine heritage. Read the full story by Barrie Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-hope-island-wrecks
Planners are in the early stages of an 18-month, $1.4 million project to plan a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Lakewood, Ohio’s coast. The plan will involve working with building owners to find a long-term erosion control measure. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-lakewood-ohio-erosion
Five flamingos have been spotted on Lake Michigan in Port Washington, Wisconsin, just north of Milwaukee. Audubon Florida speculates the birds were flying between Cuba and the Yucatan and got diverted by Hurricane Idalia. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-flamingos
The historic Great Lakes car ferry, S.S. Badger will receive a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration. The contribution will go towards an ongoing feasibility analysis to convert the coal-fired steamship into a zero-emission ferry vessel. Read the full story by Trains.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-s-s-badger
The Goodtime I, based in Sandusky, Ohio, was stalled between Kelley’s Island and Marblehead due to an engine problem. The vessel was eventually towed back to shore. Read the full story by WKYC-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-goodtime-ferry
Business groups and environmental groups filed amicus briefs in a case the Michigan Supreme Court will settle regarding manure spreading on farm fields. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-manure-spreading
Since the early 2000s, Black River, a nearly 15-mile waterway in Alcona County, Michigan that flows into Lake Huron, has had an issue where sand moves and builds up at the mouth that lets water into Lake Huron. Solutions to fix the problem vary. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230925-black-river
Steel production rose by 6,000 tons in the Great Lakes region last week, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Read the full story by The Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230908-steel-production
State officials say recent testing has discovered silver carp eDNA in Michigan’s St. Joseph River. Though it is likely the eDNA found in the sample was transported to the river from an out-of-state boat rather than a live fish, staff will search the area. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230908-silver-carp
Great Lakes drownings are down from last year. The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project said several factors could be contributing to the drop including the number of people going to the beach with cooler weather to start the season. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230908-lake-drownings-down
