Recently released Ohio Department of Natural Resources yellow perch hatch results indicate more of the same: overall mediocrity, leaning toward the not-so-good side. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-perch
Michigan’s two U.S. Senators say construction of a new lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan could be completed as much as two years ahead of schedule thanks to new federal funding. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-soo-lock
Critics of a plan to relocate the Line 5 pipeline into a tunnel beneath Great Lakes waters argue Enbridge’s own federal filings prove there’s no need for the infrastructure to be built. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-line-5
Canada plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep, deep underground in the Great Lakes basin. That is, if an industry group can find a community willing to play host. Read the full story by The Narwhal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-nuclear-waste
Cleveland took another step forward on Wednesday in joining another Ohio city, Toledo, as the City Council’s Safety Committee moved ahead with legislation outlawing large balloon releases citywide. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-balloon
On January 31, Friends of the Detroit River will host a virtual meeting where the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Michigan Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, and the Detroit River Public Advisory Council will give presentations describing project plans for sediment remediation in the Trenton Channel. Read the full story by the News-Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-sediment-cleanup
The Times Beach Nature Preserve, a 55-acre site on Buffalo, New York’s Outer Harbor that has been battered into disuse by frequent storms in recent years, will be restored thanks to one of the first local outlays from last year’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-times-beach
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has received a $1 million gift from the Milwaukee-based Brookby Foundation to support its School of Freshwater Sciences’ new research vessel. Read the full story by BizTimes.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-research-vessel
Ice cover is ticking up as temperatures cool, and Lake Michigan could see peak coverage close to its long-term average, according to the latest projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-ice
The Two Harbors City Council has directed the Minnesota Attorney General’s office to review whether Mayor Chris Swanson’s pursuit of an underwater hotel in Lake Superior crossed an ethical or legal line and issue a written opinion on it. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220121-hotel
The invasive New Zealand mudsnail was detected in new northern Michigan waterbodies although their appearance and source of introduction remain a mystery. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-invasive-snails
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will put $479 million over five years toward construction of the long-delayed new Soo Lock as part of the funding it is receiving from the bipartisan infrastructure package Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-soo-lock
Michigan Ice Fest returns to a Lake Superior community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula this February, welcoming beginners, experienced climbers and spectators alike to learn and celebrate the sport of ice climbing by navigating frozen waterfalls and other ice formations. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-ice-fest
The Department of Energy has extended a federal grant, giving advocates of the Icebreaker wind turbine project proposed for Lake Erie at least another year to find the necessary financing. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-wind-project
A joint report from the state of Minnesota found Minnesota lakes, on average, have about two weeks less ice time a season than they did 50 years ago. Read the full story by KARE-TV – St. Paul, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-ice-season
A former national park ranger visited the River Raisin National Battlefield Park to present an in-depth exploration of the history and relationship between wolves and moose on Isle Royale National Park. Read the full story by The Monroe News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-isle-royale
Heavy storms don’t automatically create a greater risk to drinking water for residents in the Great Lakes region, but increased monitoring and better coordinated health data collection is needed, according to a report released by the International Joint Commission. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-drinking-water
The ice cover is starting to grow on the Great Lakes and a few even have ice cover that is in line with the long-term average. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-ice-expanding
The Town of Saugeen Shores on the shores of Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario will renew its membership and pay dues to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities 2022 Initiative, despite misgivings about the value of the program to local taxpayers. Read the full story by the Owen Sound Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-membership
The State of Michigan is continuing to replace lead service lines that are the source of lead contamination in drinking water in a southwest Michigan community. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220119-lead
The shortest route to get a ship from Asia to the U.S. is through America’s West Coast ports. But given the pileup there, some ships are going the long way through eastern Canada into the Great Lakes. Read and hear the full story by National Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-cargo
The Badger, which was built and launched in 1952, has returned to Ludington, Michigan after an inspection and new paint job. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-ss-badger
In testimony before the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC), a veteran in the oil and gas industry claimed that housing Line 5 in an underground tunnel poses a risk of explosion. Read the full story by the Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-tunnel
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has completed its annual Great Lakes survey season, conducted on all of our Great Lakes waters from April to November 2021. Read the full story by the Up North Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-fish-survey
Lake Superior currently has less than 10% ice coverage. The National Weather Service says this isn’t unusual. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-superior
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a virtual public hearing on Feb. 2 on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement that the department has prepared for the proposed relocation of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline in Ashland, Bayfield and Iron Counties. Read the full story by The Dunn County News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-line-5
There is a kind of migration is starting to happen where residents, exhausted and weary from the risks of forest fires, floods and other hazards, elect to move to a different part of the country. Read the full story by Global News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-climate-migration
The 2021 shipping season in Thunder Bay, Ontario wrapped up with the departure of the MV Manitoulin carrying a shipment of wheat. Read the full story by Northern Ontario Business.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-shipping
Black Swamp Conservancy has acquired the conservation easement on 1,100 acres of marshland in Ottawa County, increasing the land it protects from development in northwest Ohio to more than 2,100 acres. Read the full story by the Review Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-black-swamp
Ohio DNR has awarded a $2.2 million grant to the Chagrin River Watershed Partners to restore wetlands and strengthen riverbanks five miles from Lake Erie, according to ODNR. Read the full story by The News-Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-chagrin-river
The Beaver River Watershed Initiative (BRWI) is seeking funding to build a fish culvert at the mouth of the Little Beaver Creek in Thornbury, Ontario as part of a series of projects being undertaken to rehabilitate and promote a healthy ecosystem in the river. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-fish-culvert
The thin ice on Muskegon Lake crumpled as the 122-foot tugboat sliced its way from its dock in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lake Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220117-ice-breaker
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers researchers are working with the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and other Native American tribes to help improve wild rice productivity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-rice
The ice on Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River is weak for this time of year, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, and the public is advised not to go onto the ice. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-ice
As part of the city’s $34 million Forward Looking Infrastructure Project, Port Clinton, Ohio, plans to spend at least $4 million to improve its Lake Erie shoreline. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-port-clinton
On any winter day in Cleveland, hundreds and sometimes thousands of gulls can be spotted in the shipping channels. But what brings them all to the area? Dr. Andy Jones, the curator of ornithology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, says the gulls are there to eat. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-gulls
Sand sculpture formations were spotted on Lake Michigan beaches this week near St. Joseph, Michigan. Cold, snow and wind combine to erode the semi-frozen sand, then preserve the strange shapes. Read the full story by WLS-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-sand
On Friday, Enbridge Energy will continue to push for its controversial tunnel project to relocate Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac before the Michigan Public Service Commission during a virtual hearing. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-enbridge
Every year, the Corps of Engineers uses the winter period to perform maintenance to keep the Soo Locks operating. This year, the Soo Locks will close to marine traffic beginning 11:59 p.m. Jan. 15 through 12:01 a.m. March 25. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-soo-locks
After big storms in Minnesota, Lake Superior can experience 15-foot waves. Last week, surfers flocked to the shore of Lake Superior in subzero windchills in search of large waves. Read the full story Minnesota Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-surfing-
The National Museum of the Great Lakes is hosting a virtual book club in 2022. The series will bring people together to read and discuss books about the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220114-book-club
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory’s most recent projection shows that only 12.3% of the lakes’ surfaces are likely to freeze before spring. Read and hear the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-ice-coverage
The North Shore Steelhead Association in co-operation with the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario is proposing the installation of fish counting devices and the making of minor changes to the internal structure of the fishway at Boulevard Lake. Read the full story by the Lake Superior News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-thunder-bay
Icebreaking operations are underway on the Great Lakes with two Canadian Coast Guard ships working in partnership with the United States coast guard. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-icebreaker
Overall, ice coverage stands at 7.1% across all of Lake Michigan. In comparison, last year Lake Michigan was under 1% (0.7%) covered. Read the full story by WFRV-TV- Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-ice
Dave Dempsey, a senior advisor for the Traverse City-based nonprofit For Love of Water (FLOW), argues that commodifying the water in the Lakes would amount to a massive failure of stewardship. Read the full story by WMUK- Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-great-lakes
In a shoreline outlook statement issued on Monday, the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority said strong winds out of the south or east could still cause result in flooding and shoreline damage along Lake Erie due to a lack of ice cover. Read the full story by CKXS- Wallaceburg, Ontario.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-flooding
EPA today took its first steps to ramp up oversight of toxic coal ash following a Trump-era rollback, a move that threatens early retirement for some coal plants in the Midwest. Read the full story by E&E News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-coal-ash
Early last year, the state of Wisconsin issued a fish consumption advisory that recommended eating no more than one meal a month of Lake Superior rainbow smelt, caught by tribes and local anglers during smelt runs in the spring. Read the full story by The Washington Post Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-pfas
Several ships will soon be making their way into Erie, Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle Bay for repairs. Read the full story by Erie Times-News
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220112-ships
