The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with other Michigan organizations to sponsor and oversee the restocking of lake sturgeon in the Saginaw Bay watershed and other bodies of water feeding into Lake Huron. Read the full story by the Huron Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220418-sturgeon
Researchers have found that a common wetland plant native to Australia can remove toxic “forever chemicals” from the surrounding environment. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220418-pfas
Scientists studying the bay this summer, including George Bullerjahn, a biology professor at Bowling Green State University who has studied the bay’s algae for years, hope to figure out why Sandusky Bay’s algal bloom problem suddenly went away in 2020 and 2021,. Read the full story by The Advertiser-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220418-sandusky-bay
The Indiana DNR is busy stocking steelhead trout in the St. Joseph River, a tributary of Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WNDU – TV – South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220418-trout
In the next two years, cruise lines are expecting more than 50,000 people to get aboard Great Lake cruises as local travel has become more popular during the pandemic. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-cruise
Researchers warn dangerous algae blooms and warming water around the Great Lakes will impact Metro Detroit more intensely and for longer as climate change continues to heat up around the globe. Read the full story by WWJ – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-climate
Earlier this week, the first Great Lakes piping plover to be seen back in Michigan this spring was spotted at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-plover
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has a decision on his hands whether to sign into law or veto a bill approved by the Legislature last week that would ease the way Ohio’s ephemeral streams are regulated. Read the full story WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-ephemeral-stream
The town of Evans, New York, is hoping for a total reconstruction of the Sturgeon Point Marina harbor wall along the Lake Erie Shoreline. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, New York.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-harbor-wall
As of Thursday evening, The Sullivans, a WW II destroyer, could be seen listing (tilting in the water) and the rear deck has started to go underwater. Read and view the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, New York.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-the-sullivans
More than 150 inches of snow fell on the Grand Marais area of Minnesota this winter, creating powerful waterfall along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Read the full story by Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-waterfalls
The Thousand Islands Land Trust reached an agreement with Blind Bay Associates to buy the property on the St. Lawrence River that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was eyeing for a new facility, but that they deemed environmentally sensitive. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Carthage, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-blind-bay
The Legault government has unveiled a new, more modest vision of its “third link” tunnel that would connect Québec City and the city of Lévis, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-tunnel
Perch and other fish native to the Great Lakes have dwindled in part due to invasive species. UWM School of Freshwater Sciences’ Osvaldo Jhonatan Sepulveda Villet says the solution might be to farm these fish through genetically improved lines that breed fish that grow bigger faster. Read the full story WUWM – Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-perch
Shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes, but some of the big lakers are bunched up in a group just off the Marquette coastline today, apparently waiting out some big winds whipping across Lake Superior. Read the full story by Mlive.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220415-gale-winds
Sometimes called “the coral reefs of the northern forest,” vernal pools are bodies of water that hold the key to sustaining a multitude of plant and animal life, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. They may at first appear as leaf-littered ponds, but a closer look reveals a magical array of species beneath the surface. Read the full story by the Iosco County News-Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-vernal-pools
In January, Michigan State University received a $1.9 million grant to look at toxicity in PFAS, and researcher professor Cheryl Murphy will lead the multi-institutional team of researchers conducting the study. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-pfas-study
As the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement reaches its 50-year anniversary this week, much in terms of protections and improvements must still be tackled in the years ahead, according to a newly formed group of activists, the Citizens Environment Alliance. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-great-lakes-agreement
Two popular West Michigan buoys are back on the water after spending the winter away. Boaters and swimmers can check the buoy before they head to the lake for conditions like wind speed, air temperature, water temperature, and more. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – South Haven, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-weather-buoys
A voluntary conservation program will be relaunched in the Western Lake Erie Basin, Lake Macatawa, and Saginaw Bay watersheds through a partnership among Michigan state and federal agriculture agencies and regional conservation districts. The effort is expected pull in $40 million in federal funds toward protecting land and water resources. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-fund-water-quality
The movement of two native fish species called suckers are being studied in a northern Michigan river as part of a larger studies to see how fish move into, through and out of the Ottaway River, and the impacts they have on nutrient and energy dynamics. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-sucker-study
The Great Lakes Boat Building School on the northwest corner of Lake Huron in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula is expanding to meet the needs of Michigan’s marine industry. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-marine-industry
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources cannot enforce one of its key environmental protection tools, known as the “spills law,” without first creating a definitive list of hazardous substances approved by lawmakers, a Waukesha County judge ruled Tuesday. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-state-cleanup
The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board has confirmed that it will host two virtual public meetings in mid-April to review winter and early spring conditions and shared updated forecasts for the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River basin. Read the full story by WWLP-TV – Messena, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-public-meeting
If you find yourself fascinated by shipwrecks, it may surprise you to learn just how many shipwrecks you can find around Michigan and even in some that can be visited by paddle boat. Read the full story by WKFR – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220413-shipwrecks
Canada is back at the binational table with funding in the 2022 federal budget to protect the Great Lakes fishery. It’s the first time in 40 years the federal government has fully funded the binational treaty organization Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Read the full story by Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-glfc-funding
Lake Huron Coastal Centre Stewardship Technician Alyssa Bourassa says 83.3 per cent of the twenty-four lake water samples that were collected from Lake Huron at the beginning and the end of last year’s Coast Watcher season, contained micro-plastics. And when the samples were tested in 2018, 95.7 per cent of the samples contained micro-plastics. Read the full story by CKNX-TV – Windsor, ON.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-plastic-pollution
The debate over the expansion of a toxic waste landfill in Niagara County, which is going on 20 years, could soon come to a close. The first in a series of hearings on the matter will take place Monday, April 11. Since 2003, local groups fought to stop CWM Chemical Services and Waste Management from expanding their toxic waste landfills in the town of Porter, NY. Read the full story by Spectrum News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-pollution
High and dry for easy viewing this summer will be one of Michigan’s newest exposed wrecks, the Jennie and Annie. The 137-foot schooner, built in 1863, was rounding Sleeping Bear Point in November 1872 when gale-force winds pushed it into the shallows and reefs of Lake Michigan’s notorious Manitou Passage. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-shipwrecks
The City of Defiance, Defiance College and Sen. Sherrod Brown have worked together to secure funding to form the Ohio Tri-River Research Alliance in Defiance, OH. The alliance will receive $500,000 in government funding to research systemic problems associated with the Upper Maumee River Watershed which is the primary source of drinking water for the City of Defiance. Read the full story by The Crescent-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-river-habs
West Grand Traverse Bay officially hasn’t frozen over this winter, and long-term trends show that’s becoming the norm. In recent decades, those freeze-overs are happening less frequently; averages from 1980 on show it happened about 40 percent of the time, compared to nearly 80 percent of winters in the preceding decades. Read the full story by The Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-ice-coverage
Roughly 11 thousand Chinook salmon fingerlings were released into a special net pen Friday in the Kenosha Harbor as part of a new effort to increase salmon returns during spawning seasons. View the full video by Kenosha News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-fish-salmon
Great Lakes ice extent is down to 7.8%. The flow of water out of Lake Superior is below the average rate, and the flow into St. Clair River is above the average rate showing more water leaving the lakes suggesting a decrease in lake levels for Lake Huron and Michigan. Lake Erie and Ontario are both above the April average water levels. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-water-levels
After a two-year hiatus, Great Lakes cruise ships are back, and the industry is trying to prepare itself. Read the full story by The Capital News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-cruise-ships
A shoreline protection program is currently underway in the West River near Buckhorn Island State Park near Grand Island, NY for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Read the full story by Niagara Frontier Publications.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220411-restoration
As the Great Lakes start their seasonal rise over the next month, hydrologists do not anticipate the lakes will rise near their record-high levels in 2022, though lakes Erie, St. Clair and Michigan-Huron likely will be above average. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-lake-levels
As global warming is predicted to produce more frequent high rainfall events in the Upper Great Lakes, scientists wonder what impact that will have on lake levels and beach access. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-climate-change
The proposed walkway along the Buffalo River would reduce the distance for walkers and bicyclists between Canalside and the Outer Harbor in Buffalo, New York and improve waterfront access Read the full story by the Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-riverwalk
Additional funding will support food web monitoring efforts on the Great Lakes as Cornell University confirmed it will continue efforts to monitor and research the lower parts of the food web on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-food-web-monitoring
In an unusual sighting, a pair of piping plover siblings that hatched last summer at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore have been spotted on their wintering grounds, still together. Read the full story by MLive
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-plovers
A new wetland is coming to Wood County, just on the outskirts of Bowling Green, Ohio, and it is one of many that will be part of the H2Ohio program that was instituted by Gov. Mike DeWine to cut harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Sentinel-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-wetland-restoration
A $13.5 million effort, dubbed the Muskegon Channel Crossing Project, is providing a second water source to communities north of the channel that leads from Lake Michigan to Muskegon Lake. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-water-pipe
After two years of a halt in the cruise industry because of the pandemic, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is expecting a boom in that industry. Port Milwaukee has plans underway to add a larger dock to their South Shore location to serve larger ships. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-cruise-dock
On the Great Lakes, long-time fishing families are being forced from their livelihoods by waterfront tourism development and high-end housing. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-gentrification
New regulation on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario will allow American vessels out for recreation or tourism to enter Canadian waters and leave without reporting to Canada Boarder Service Agency as long as boaters do not land in Canada. Read the full story by CKVV-Kemptville, ON.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220408-border
April 15th will mark the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the U.S. and Canada; an expression of binational commitment to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes basin ecosystem. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220406-water-quality-agreement
The State of Michigan wants feedback on a new interactive tool that scores communities on environmental justice factors. Referred to as the MiEJScreen, it identifies communities disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220406-environmental-justice
Tribal and state officials are warning against harassment of spearfishers as the Indigenous harvest season starts in northern Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220406-spearfishing
Northern Michigan could see benefits in critical infrastructure, Great Lakes protection, and PFAS remediation in the newly proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2023. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220406-restoration
Lake County, Ohio, will receive $11.3 million in state funding to construct a much-needed containment basin to store dredged material from the Grand River, to support interstate and international commerce. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220406-dreged-material
