A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament member, a deadly shipwreck, treasure hunters and Michigan’s foremost expert on the ‘Titanic of the Great Lakes.’ Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-titanic-greatlakes-goldwatch

Hannah Reynolds

The Lottie Cooper was built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1876 when three-masted cargo ships were common on the Great Lakes, moving goods from port to port. In the summer of 1993, the remains of the Lottie Cooper were put on educational display at the lakefront along Broughton Drive, where she continues to tell the story of early maritime shipping near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Sheboygan Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-wreckage-display-sheboygan-lakefront

Hannah Reynolds

Swarms of mayflies are beginning to appear in the southern part of Michigan, signaling the start of the yearly mayfly hatch. Mayflies are a familiar sight near many Michigan lakes when they emerge or “hatch” from the water as flying adults. Read the full story by The Herald Review.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-maylies-southern-michigan

Hannah Reynolds

The recently released documents reveal numerous programs that would be zeroed out under $1 billion in cuts to federal grants nationwide. They include programs that manage state and local air quality, control water pollution and clean up or redevelop contaminated sites. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.  

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-wisconsin-pollution-protections

Hannah Reynolds

After seeing the degradation of the Pine River, running from Ripley, Ontario, to Lake Huron, citizens came together to try and rehabilitate their waterway. With the approval and assistance of local farmers and landowners, Pine River Watershed volunteers have planted 365,000 trees, installed 21 berms to control field run-off, and helped install 24 kilometres of fencing to keep livestock out of the Pine River. Read the full story by CTV News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-volunteers-plant-trees-local-river

Hannah Reynolds

In a move to refine and recalibrate its stewardship, the Wisconsin DNR is crafting a new regional master plan for Lake Michigan coastal communities, and they’re inviting Wisconsinites to have their say. Read the full story by Hoodline.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-wisconsin-dnr-southern-lake-michigan

Hannah Reynolds

Recent funding and staffing cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have raised concerns in Canada about invasive lamprey population. Sea lamprey control is managed binationally by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Read the full story by TBNewsWatch.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250613-lampreys-passports-greatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

A new study led by the Hammond Bay Biological Station in Michigan explored a novel approach involving the sterilization of male sea lampreys as a promising method to control the invasive sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes.  Read the full story by WPBN/WGTU-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250609-sea-lamprey

Autumn McGowan

Lake Superior is one of the United States’ greatest natural and economic assets. It provides drinking water, supports transportation and trade, fuels tourism and recreation, and anchors coastal communities. Protecting Lake Superior is not just an environmental issue, it’s an economic and public health necessity. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250609-superior-communities

Autumn McGowan

Described as a “mini vacation retreat” for area families, the popular beach at Myers Lake Park in Rockford, Michigan, will now be able to accommodate more families on staycation. A spring renovation that used approximately 500 tons of sand to double the beach’s size. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250609-beach-sand

Autumn McGowan

Case Western Reserve University is set to install filters to washing machines across campus to reduce microplastic pollution during the laundry cycle, with hopes to make Cleveland, Ohio, the example in the fight against microplastic pollution.  Read the full story by Ideastream Public Media.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250609-microplastics-filter

Autumn McGowan

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

Nichole Angell

Every summer throughout the mid-2010s, researchers scoured the Great Lakes in search of PFAS contamination, taking tissue samples from invasive mussels at 120 locations in total. The results: The scientists found PFAS nearly everywhere. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250606-mussels-pfas-everywhere

Laura Andrews

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

Nichole Angell

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

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

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

Nichole Angell

The Council of State Governments is working with the eight Great Lakes states and other partners to explore creating a U.S. Great Lakes Waterfront Trail along the shorelines of the largest freshwater system on Earth. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-greatlakes-moment-greatlakes-waterfronttrail

Hannah Reynolds

Scientists are experimenting with methods to remove invasive zebra and quagga mussels from Lake Michigan, using tarps, an underwater crawler and a 1,100-pound plow known as the mussel masher. However, this work faces funding challenges due to federal cuts and reduced university funding. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-invasive-mussels-scientists-fightingback

Hannah Reynolds

A brewery in Allendale, Michigan, has partnered with the Clean Boats, Clean Waters program to create a beer series drawing attention to aquatic invasive species and what people can do to protect local lakes. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-michiganbrewery-fighting-invasivespecies

Hannah Reynolds

New York state has announced a $100 million modernization plan for its system of fish hatcheries. The long-term investment in the hatcheries, which serve as the backbone for the management and restoration of New York’s freshwater fisheries, comes as the federal government is moving to slash funding for an agency that supports the state’s fish stocking program locally. Read the full story by Oswego County News Now. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-dec-fish-hatchery-modernization

Hannah Reynolds

The towns of Kendall and Hamlin in New York will soon celebrate the start of construction on one of the bigger municipal projects in recent memory – a $17 million sewer project that will stretch about 15 miles in the two towns. Many of the septic systems along the 15-mile project have septic systems vulnerable to high Lake Ontario waters. Read the full story by Orleans Hub. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-kendall-hamlin-17million-sewerproject

Hannah Reynolds

Representatives of Anishinaabe, Cree and other communities across Ontario, who live on the Great Lakes, in the Ring of Fire and on the Manitoba border, appeared before the province’s government this week to argue against sweeping legislation that proposes to create “special economic zones” for mining and development and eliminate protections for species at risk and cultural heritage. The bill was written without consultation with many Indigenous communities in the province that would be most impacted by an increase in unchecked mining activity — communities that have historically not reaped the financial or social rewards of such industry.  Read the full story by The Narwhal. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-brokentrust-bill5

Hannah Reynolds

The National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) will hold a ribbon cutting for the grand opening of its expansion later this month. The expansion includes a 5,000 square foot facility called the Larry and Karen Bettcher Wing. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-ribboncutting-nmgl-new-exhibit

Hannah Reynolds

Amid drastic cuts to science programs, grants and funding, Great Lakes scientists are converging in Milwaukee this week to talk about resilience – not just in the lakes, but science itself. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250604-scientists-milwaukee-greatlakes-resilience

Hannah Reynolds

The analysis notes that the tunnel would eliminate the risk of a boat anchor rupturing the pipeline and causing a spill in the Straits of Mackinac, but the construction would have sweeping effects on everything from recreation to wildlife. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250602-line-5-impacts

Autumn McGowan