Members of the Superior Watershed Partnership’s Great Lakes Climate Corps, take part in a habitat-improvement project Friday at McCarty’s Cove in Marquette. The day’s activities were to include pulling invasive vegetation and planting native beach grass. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-habitatrestoration-marquette
The appetite to get back on the water was clear as Welland’s Canadian Tire Floatfest broke two records last weekend on the Welland Canal, says Angie St. Pierre, the event’s safety and security co-ordinator. “We had more than 2,500 people registered, and approximately 1,800 floated which are both record numbers. said St. Pierre. Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-tirefloatfest
A Michigan regulatory panel said Thursday that it needs more information about safety risks before it can rule on Enbridge Energy’s plan to extend an oil pipeline through a tunnel beneath a waterway linking two of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-greatlakesoiltunnelplan
When ships come to the St. Lawrence River, it’s what they leave behind that’s an issue for environmentalists, and members of Congress. They’ve penned a letter, hoping for change to protect what’s in the Thousand Islands. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-stricterballastcontrols
Canada’s Invasive Species Centre (ISC) hopes to eradicate an aquatic plant that forms extremely dense floating mats of vegetation that shades out native vegetation and decreases plant biodiversity first discovered in the Welland River two years ago. Said Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority outreach worker Kerry Royer, “We certainly wouldn’t want it getting into the Niagara River and then move into the Great Lakes.” Read the full story by the St. Catharines Standard.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-waterchestnut
Residents of eastern Quebec probably remember the exceptional weather conditions and the very high tide of Dec. 6, 2010. The combination caused flooding along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and millions of dollars in damage to public and private infrastructure. Researchers are now asking when might the exceptional high tides of the St. Lawrence River strike next? Read the full story by the National Post.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-hightidegreatlakes
Lake Michigan is considered the deadliest of the Great Lakes. Numbers show Lake Michigan has had the most drownings in the past two years. Now, Racine wants to change that. Read the full story by FOX6 News Milwaukee.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-watersafetyenhancements
This year’s Tall Ships Festival in Cleveland will include some of the more disgusting denizens of the Great Lakes – sea lampreys. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission will be on hand with a half-dozen sea lampreys in a tank to publicize the destructive nature of the invasive species and why it’s important to continue controlling its population. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-clevelandsealamprey
Gov. Tony Evers appeared in Algoma Thursday, announcing four grants from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program (WCMP) that will impact Kewaunee County, WI. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Algoma, WI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-wisconsincmp
June has shaped up to be much busier than the same time last year with improved cargo volumes in the Thunder Bay, Ontario port. Both potash and general cargo shipments were up, while grain volumes had a modest rebound. Read the full story by The Chronicle Journal.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-thunderbayport
After 100 years of coordinated effort, 98% of all the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes have been eliminated. Researchers are looking towards modern technology to eliminate that last 2%. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-sealampreycontrol
Fisheries researchers go to great lengths, or sometimes deep waters, to seek answers to their questions. Recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists aboard the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) research vessel Lake Char discovered the deepest occurrence of lake char (or lake trout) spawning in the Great Lakes at a depth of over 400 feet off the north side of Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Negaunee, MI.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220708-egghunt
Native freshwater mussels have experienced dramatic population declines in the Detroit River due to habitat degradation, water pollution and the introduction of invasive species. Central Michigan University Ph.D. student Shay Keretz will be focusing her dissertation on if and where native mussels remain in the Detroit and St. Clair River. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-mussels
Federal officials awarded a more than $1 billion contract to build a new chamber at the Soo Locks after months of scrambling to cover ballooned costs. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-soo-locks
Illinois fishery managers rebrand four invasive species of carp as copi. They hope the new name will help the bountiful fish land on more restaurant menus and grocery lists and eventually slow the carp’s march toward the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WBUR-FM – Boston, MA.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-copi
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio EPA are at odds over the amount of phosphorus the city of Euclid’s wastewater treatment plant can discharge into Lake Erie, and the outcome of their disagreement could have broad repercussions for sewage plant operators elsewhere in Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-phosphorus-dishcarge
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-atlantic-salmon
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed a plan to manage the Atlantic salmon population in Lake Ontario with an emphasis on improving the survival of stocked fish and increasing the number of adult Atlantic salmon that return to tributaries to spawn. Read the full story by WROC-TV – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-atlantic-salmon
The Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife recently completed spring trout and salmon stockings in Lake Michigan and its tributaries, into which it released more than half a million trout and salmon. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-trout-salmon-stock
A shipwreck that lies submerged in Lake Michigan, about 13 miles northeast of the Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse in Wisconsin, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full story the Sheboygan Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-abiah
Every year, in early summer, fields of lupine erupt along the North Shore of Lake Superior, drawing love from many photographers, but over the past ten years the invasive plant has proliferated. Read the full story by Minnesota Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-lupine
Following its addition to Michigan’s invasive species watch list last year, beech leaf disease has been found in an area of St. Clair County, according to the Michigan departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220706-beech-leaf
A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only about half the people in the Great Lakes states are aware of fish consumption advisories and around five million people exceed the recommended fish intake. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-fish-advisories
With more than 12.8 million tons of recyclable plastic packaging materials landfilled every year, cleaning up and ending that waste and litter from entering the Great Lakes watershed is the top priority of a Council of the Great Lakes Region initiative. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-plastic-waste
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced 16 K-12 institutions, school districts and educational partnerships have been awarded $205,028 to develop Great Lakes-based science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational programs for students. Among the awardees is the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, which will receive $20,000 to help propel new Project Based Learning units in local schools. Read the full story by the News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-stem-education
A public meeting will be held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula town of Lake Linden Tuesday, July 12 to present plans for removing vast amounts of crushed copper mining ore that’s slowly swallowing a stretch of Lake Superior coastline. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-lake-superior-reef
The piping plover is making its last stand along northern Michigan’s west coast, with many of these small shorebirds annually nesting in Michigan’s Manistee and Benzie counties. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-plovers
Michigan health officials are reminding people to avoid surface water foam that could contain harmful chemicals ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. Read the full story by MLive.
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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-foam
Since 2014, the Regional Science Consortium has worked to test the waters of Lake Erie for harmful algal blooms, and they’ve shared the test results with state and local authorities to warn the public of potential dangers but without grant funding, their work cannot be done. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-hab-impact
The Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, Minnesota has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue studying the bottom of the food chain in the Great Lakes — work that includes collecting water samples and boring into lake sediment to learn hundreds of years of history. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-phytoplankton
This Fourth of July holiday weekend, Wisconsin DNR staff and volunteers with Clean Boats, Clean Waters will be at boat launches statewide for their 2022 Landing Blitz, reminding the public of ways boaters can help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, which pose great risks to the health of our lakes and fisheries. Read the full story by the Antigo Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-ais
Harmful algae blooms are predicted to be smaller than average this year in Lake Erie. Although the bloom may be smaller, smaller blooms can still be toxic and affect drinking water. Read the full story at WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220701-hab
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded the University of Michigan a five-year, $53 million grant to continue and expand the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, which leads research for sustainability in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-um-research
The Lake Michigan and Lake Huron waters governed by an 1836 treaty are at the heart of negotiations between Michigan, the federal government and Native American tribes to determine how much and what kinds of fish can be harvested by recreational, state-licensed and Native American commercial fishers. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-fishing-rights
A representative of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission is cautiously optimistic that sea lamprey populations will be held in check in the next couple of years in the Great Lakes, even though control measures had to be curtailed recently due to the pandemic. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-lamprey
After a hiatus of nearly a decade, it’s a novelty for the port of Duluth-Superior to welcome cruise ships. The experience is just as novel for the guests disembarking to spend a day in the Twin Ports. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-cruise
High water levels along Lake Michigan could increase the danger of toxic contamination from industrial facilities along Wisconsin’s lakefront as climate change is expected to cause more intense storms, according to a new report. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-contamination
Wildlife biologists are finding whole colonies of birds dead or dying on islands in Lake Michigan. They are Caspian terns, which are listed as threatened in Michigan and endangered in Wisconsin. Read and hear the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-bird-flu
The Lake Michigan Coastal Program is looking for public input on funding priorities for 2023 grants, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced. Read the full story by WBND-TV- South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-coastal-program
New research into Great Lakes water levels looks farther into the future to predict how much climate change will increase lake levels in four of the five Great Lakes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-water-levels
A new report said steel walls near the Michigan City, Indiana coal plant aren’t keeping coal ash waste from getting into Lake Michigan and Trail Creek — and it will likely get worse over time. But the northern Indiana utility NIPSCO — which owns the plant — said info in the report has been “cherry-picked.” Read the full story by WVPE– Elkhart, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-coal-ash
Lake Ontario is clean enough for swimming, says Toronto Public Health, but an unofficial survey by CBC News has found few people are taking the plunge this early in the season because it’s so cold. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220629-lake-ontario
A $6.7 million federal grant from the EPA’S Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will help scientists at Buffalo State and Cornell University further study mussels in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Spectrum 1 News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-mussel-study
In response to growing alewife numbers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is advancing a proposal this summer to boost the number of chinook, or “king” salmon it stocks in the lake to 1 million fish next year. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-chinook
Despite the work being done since the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the people of the U.S. and Canada have become complacent too soon after the pact’s early success. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Independent.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-commentary
Mayors from multiple Great Lakes coastal communities are coming together to urge the Ontario government to develop a marine strategy for the province. Read the full story by The Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-coastal-communities
New York Sea Grant (NYSG) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) have announced the Summer 2022 Great Lakes Ecosystem Education Exchange (GLEEE) Workshops for teachers, environmental educators, and homeschoolers at sites in Oswego, Massena, Rochester, and Buffalo. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-education-program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced a second round of funding through the Environmental Quality Incentives (EQIP) Cover Crop Initiative. Read the full story by Ohio’s Country Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-cover-crops
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Office of Coastal Management is moving away from Sandusky, although it will remain in Erie County. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-coastal-management
The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project is continuing its education program this summer to raise awareness about water safety and signs of drowning. Read the full story by WWTV- TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220627-water-safety
