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A recent study by Central Michigan University professors and students examined ring-billed gull travel patterns at several Lake Michigan beaches in Michigan’s Ottawa and Muskegon counties. Ring-billed gulls travel between populated beaches and human waste sites like landfills and water treatment plants, carrying human pathogens with them. Read the full story by Capital News Service.

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Oaktree Capital Management LP and American Industrial Partners are exploring a sale of the Great Lakes marine transportation company Rand Logistics, which could fetch more than $1 billion, including debt, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read the full story by Bloomberg.

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Oaktree Capital Management LP and American Industrial Partners are exploring a sale of the Great Lakes marine transportation company Rand Logistics, which could fetch more than $1 billion, including debt, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Read the full story by Bloomberg.

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Students in Careerline Tech Center’s Natural Resources and Outdoor Studies program are exploring the issue of microplastics by collecting samples from six beaches along Lake Michigan in Michigan’s Ottawa County, from Grand Haven State Park to Holland State Park. Read the full story by Holland Sentinel.

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Students in Careerline Tech Center’s Natural Resources and Outdoor Studies program are exploring the issue of microplastics by collecting samples from six beaches along Lake Michigan in Michigan’s Ottawa County, from Grand Haven State Park to Holland State Park. Read the full story by Holland Sentinel.

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For the first time since 1983, a U.S.-flagged freighter has been constructed on the Great Lakes. Fincatieri Bay Shipbuilding, based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, built the 639-foot vessel for the Great Lakes’ own Interlake Steamship Company, whose roots trace back more than a century, to 1913. Read the full story by the Northern Express.

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The popular SS Badger is away from her home for a bit for a long-awaited sprucing up. The U.S. Coast Guard requires the ship to be inspected every five years. The Badger last made the trip to Sturgeon Bay in 2015, but because of her fresh-water operations and seasonality, Interlake Steamship Company, the ferry’s parent company, received an extension for an additional year. Read the full story by Green Bay Press-Gazette.

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Great Lakes fish and wildlife populations would get a boost under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate. Supporters say the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act will provide critical resources to conserve and restore fish and wildlife populations across the region. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211105-legislation

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The decades-overdue overhaul of the Soo Locks is moving swiftly as the nearly $1.5 billion infrastructure project is on schedule to be completed by 2030 and will bolster commerce in Michigan and the Midwest, according to maritime industry leaders. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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High waters have sped erosion along Lake Michigan’s Wisconsin shoreline, swallowing beaches, damaging public lands, and draining homeowners’ savings. Many residents are installing shoreline barriers, but such structures are temporary and may harm downstream beaches. Read the full story by Wisconsin Watch.

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Since October, the water temperatures on all five of the Great Lakes have hovered at record-high autumn levels, about five to six degrees above average. The record-warm water temperatures over the Great Lakes fit into a pattern of warming lakes all over the planet. Read the full story by the Washington Post.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211105-warmer-waters

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Line 5 pipelines are an environmental ticking time bomb pumping oil nearly 20 years past their intended lifespan in raging currents at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac that join Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record Eagle.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211105-line-5

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While cooler fall temperatures arrive, agricultural field research into the causes of western Lake Erie algal blooms remains a hot issue, with more scientific detective work on the horizon. Teams of researchers are still hoping to fine-tune ways the agricultural community can keep more of its nutrient-laden water on its fields and lose less into creeks and streams whose waters eventually flow into Lake Erie.  Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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Between record low waters in January 2013 and a record high in July 2020, Lakes Michigan and Huron water levels collectively swung more than 6 feet. Climate scientists attribute the volatility to the interplay of the region’s rising temperatures and precipitation from more frequent and intense storms. Read the full story by WPR.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211103-shoreline

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The first U.S.-flagged Great Lakes freighter built on the Great Lakes in 40 years recently launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, shipyard in a maritime tradition marking the first time a vessel is moved into the water. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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The first U.S.-flagged Great Lakes freighter built on the Great Lakes in 40 years recently launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, shipyard in a maritime tradition marking the first time a vessel is moved into the water. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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The harmful algae bloom in Lake Erie has largely sputtered out after exceeding early summer projections on its severity. On a severity index of 10, this year’s “moderately severe” bloom hit a 6, according to forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211103-algae

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Sandhill crane migration peaks between mid-October and late November, bringing thousands of these graceful giants through the state from breeding areas as far north as the Northwest territories of Canada. Many of these birds congregate in groups numbering in the hundreds or even thousands as they make their way across the Great Plains and parts of the Great Lakes, creating a breathtaking scene when they fly in at dusk to rest and refuel on their journeys. Read the full story by MLive.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211103-cranes

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Lurking below the surface of Lake Erie is a ship graveyard that is estimated to include up to 2,500 vessels, with the earliest wreck dating to the 1800s when Lake Erie was part of the water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the upper Midwest. Read the full story by the Daily Mail.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-eerie-erie

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For just a few weeks in October, the fish technicians at the Platte River Fish Hatchery in Benzie County, Michigan, do egg takes on over 600 coho salmon males and females a day to eventually spawn new coho salmon. Read the full story by WWUP-TV – Cadillac, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-salmon-eggs

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The union local in Chicago representing Environmental Protection Agency employees across the Midwest is asking President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and take major unprecedented actions to slow global warming. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-climate-emergency

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The Superior Watershed Partnership received a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant in the amount of $216,395 from the USDA Forest Service to create the Northern Tribal and Community Green Infrastructure Collaborative in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Read the full story by Radio Results Network.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-planting-trees

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A brownout at a pumping station on Detroit’s east side during heavy July rainfall “played a large role” in basement backups reported upstream, a consultant investigation into the summer flooding concluded in a presentation to the Great Lakes Water Authority board this week. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-power-issues

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National declines of hunting license sales and the need for additional wildlife conservation funding have prompted proposals to fill the fiscal gap, including one that’s stalled in Congress despite bipartisan support. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hunting license sales have dropped in many states, including those in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-habitat-funding

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More than $2.5 million was awarded to 19 projects that ranged from green infrastructure to helping spread good land management practices to reduce the amount of contaminants and excess nutrients, such as phosphorous, entering the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211029-ontario-farms

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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) recently discovered three 1800′s-era shipwrecks in Lake Superior in the vicinity of Grand Marais, Michigan. A number of additional shipwrecks have also been located and await positive identification. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20211027-shipwrecks

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Canada’s plan to store spent nuclear fuel 1,600 feet below ground in the Great Lakes basin, some 30 miles from Lake Huron, is continuing to ruffle feathers throughout the Great Lake states. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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