Great Lakes Awareness Day celebrates the Great Lakes and highlights the issues they face, and how the lakes can be preserved. Read the full story by the Telegraph Forum.
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The Viking Octantis, the first of two new purpose-built expedition ships from the cruise ship company Viking, stopped in Port Colborne, ON Sunday during its inaugural voyage in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Niagara Falls Review.
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The largest and most modern cruise ship on the Great Lakes will visit its first port of call in Michigan on Tuesday after its inaugural journey through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Read the full story by MLive.
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Coastal restoration efforts are underway across the state as recipients of the Michigan Coastal Management Program grants begin work locally. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220502-boataccess
The 767-foot, self-unloading freighter was carrying about 25,000 tons of stone from Port Inland, Michigan, when it grounded Thursday, April 28, as it was approaching Muskegon’s harbor. The Kaye E. Barker was able to transit to Verplank Dock in Muskegon Sunday after lightening additional product from the vessel. Read the full story by the Muskegon Chronicle.
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Several freshwater fishing opportunities opened across New York over the weekend. This included fishing for northern pike, pickerel, tiger muskellunge and walleye as the seasons opened on Sunday, May 1. Read the full story by ABC50 NOW.
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How’s the fishing on the St. Marys River? Fisheries staff with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry will be asking this summer and fall during a creel survey beginning in May and running through October. Read the full story by The Sault News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220502-creelsurvey
In Onaway, MI campers squat atop a low cliff overlooking a wending, swiftly-flowing river to protect sturgeon. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
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Six years ago a panel of experts convened by former Governor Rick Snyder concluded that Michigan’s public works — its roads, sewers, water distribution pipes, and other vital systems — were in “a state of disrepair” and Michigan was losing competitive advantage in a globalized economy by not investing in fundamental connective assets like potable water and wastewater treatment. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220502-miwaterinfrastructure
As the nation prepares to pour billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan with a special series of reports and events during May. Read the full story by Circle of Blue.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-true-cost-water
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is launching a comprehensive study of the Great Lakes shoreline after securing $1.1 million to begin the long-awaited look at vulnerability to high water and erosion along the inland coast. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-coastal-resilience
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is launching a comprehensive study of the Great Lakes shoreline after securing $1.1 million to begin the long-awaited look at vulnerability to high water and erosion along the inland coast. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-coastal-resilience
Now out in the Great Lakes are the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Great Lakes research vessels, where crews will be monitoring fish population sizes and habitats. Read the full story by the Petoskey New-Review.
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Now out in the Great Lakes are the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Great Lakes research vessels, where crews will be monitoring fish population sizes and habitats. Read the full story by the Petoskey New-Review.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-fish-surveys
Meag Schwartz, network coordinator for the Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, has been leading trash cleanups along the shore of Lake Huron. The most common litter found in her cleanups, cigarette butts. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
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Meag Schwartz, network coordinator for the Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, has been leading trash cleanups along the shore of Lake Huron. The most common litter found in her cleanups, cigarette butts. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-trash-cleanups
Aiming to protect fish in Lake Superior, teams race to understand a messy invader previously foreign to trout streams Up North. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
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Aiming to protect fish in Lake Superior, teams race to understand a messy invader previously foreign to trout streams Up North. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-rock-snot
A recent study suggests that a binational regulation targeting ship ballast water has had a remarkable suppressive effect on the invasion rate. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-ballast
A proposed moratorium on freshwater wind turbines was defeated by members of the New York state Senate’s Environmental Conservation Committee. Read the full story by The Post-Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-wind-turbines
Indigenous women leaders and more than 200 advocacy organizations sent a letter Wednesday demanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers block federal permits for an expansion of Enbridge’s Line 5, a 645-mile-long pipeline that currently transports millions of gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids per day from Wisconsin to Ontario, Canada. Read the full story by Truthout.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-line-5
Not surveyed since the 1940s, areas of Lake Erie’s south shore and the Detroit River will be mapped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) deep-water hydrographic survey vessel Thomas Jefferson. Read the full story by the Niagara Fall Review.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220429-floor-mapping
The Great Lakes Basin will continue receiving funding with the reauthorization of the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act. It was approved in the U.S. House with bipartisan support this week. Read the full story by WSJM-TV – Benton Harbor, MI.
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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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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-50th-anniversary
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
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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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
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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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-piping-plover
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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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220427-minnesota
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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Volunteers gathered at Wendy Park in Cleveland to clean up the beach during Earth Day weekend. The litter picked up this year along the shores of the Great Lakes could put the total amount of trash that’s been kept out of our lakes at over half a million pounds. Read the full story by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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The Meijer company has donated $1 million toward cleaning up the Great Lakes. The money will be used by the Council of the Great Lakes Region to clean up beaches and waterways throughout the Midwest and to educate the public about plastics pollution. Read the full story by WGRT – Port Huron, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-beachcleanupdonation
In New York, nearly 300 Earth Week volunteers gathered at Hamburg’s Woodlawn Beach, hauling away a winter’s worth of debris deposited on shore. Read the full story by The Buffalo News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-earthweekcleanup
Algal blooms cause lower housing prices in Lake Erie communities, according to a study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. View the full video story by Great Lakes Echo.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-housingprices
If you’re at a Great Lakes port this season, you might see one of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ large fisheries research vessels conducting annual fish surveys. The vessels are based out of Marquette, Alpena, Charlevoix and Harrison Township harbors in Michigan. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-fishpopulations
In light of the present crisis unfolding on The Sullivans – and the fact that epoxy is a temporary fix for holes in its hull that caused it to list severely last week – a larger plan to protect the future of the ship has risen in importance. Read the full story by the Buffalo News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-thesullivans
After last year’s free parking program for beaches, the city has decided to charge $15 for the season. Trish Sorrenti, corporate executive administrator, said last year’s free parking program was a struggle for staff. Read the full story by the St. Catherines Standard.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-beachparking
As the invasive tench tries to make inroads in the St. Lawrence River from east to west, another aquatic invasive critter, cousin to the round goby, is making its mark from the opposite direction. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-invasivegobies
In March, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the Building Michigan Together Plan, which included the largest infrastructure investment in state history. Included in that investment is nearly $2 billion for water infrastructure. Read the full story by the Petoskey News-Review.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-waterinfrastructure
An area like the Great Lakes that has rain and higher temperatures in the summer, followed by a cold, snowy winter, is best suited for maple production. But the Great Lakes maple season is evolving as climate change increasingly impacts maple syrup production with shorter harvest seasons, less sugar production and unreliable sap flow. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220425-sugaring
Nearly 22 million pounds of plastic debris get into the Great Lakes each year, according to a Rochester Institute of Technology study. Beach cleanups help combat that by collecting plastic and other litter found on beaches and by raising awareness about the problem. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-plastic
The Great Lakes Water Authority in Detroit announced that due to the continued high level of performance of its Water Resource Recovery Facility, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has terminated the Administrative Consent Order it imposed more than a decade ago due to frequent non-compliance of the utility’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit. Read the full story by DBusiness.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-glwa
A rare Great Lakes piping plover was spotted this week at Rainbow Beach in Chicago, which was recently named by birders as the most promising new nesting site for the endangered bird. Neighbors hope to encourage the plover to stay by cleaning the beach this weekend. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-plover
Milwaukee was selected as one of more than a dozen cities deemed to be “climate havens” – places that could avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and support larger populations, according to a report from CNBC. Making the list are also several other cities close to the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-climate-haven
Workers and volunteer fire personnel were at work along the Olcott region lakeshore, filling and laying sandbags in trouble spots in order to stem potential erosion and flooding. This work is not uncommon for this time of year, as water levels in Lake Ontario begin to rise. Read the full story by the Niagara Gazette.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-water-level
On the shores of Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River and other North Country water bodies lie unique communities driven by seasonal tourism. Despite many challenges in the past few years, the communities have been driven in part by the marine industry, which has proven to thrive. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Henderson Harbor, NY.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-marine-industry
The Town of Marathon and Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, Ontario, are looking to revive the port facilities at the site of the former Marathon Pulp mill. Read the full story by Northern Ontario Business.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-port
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources stated that it and partner organizations will begin conducting an acoustic telemetry study this month that looks at walleye in the Saginaw Bay region of Lake Huron and their spawning habits. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220422-walleye
