The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks issued an advisory not to consume any Smelts caught south of Batchewana Bay to the St. Mary’s River headwaters (the Goulais Bay area) due to a toxin which has recently been detected in them called Toxaphene. Read the full story by Sault Online.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-smelts
The level of Lake Superior remains well above normal but it is also well below its high-water mark of a year ago. The International Lake Superior Board of Control reports that Superior was 18 centimeters (7.1 inches) higher than its long-term average (1918 to 2020) for this time of year at the beginning of April. Read the full story by Thunder Bay News Watch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-superior
An incident involving gunfire near tribal spearfishers last year is prompting tribal and state officials to send a warning that harassment won’t be tolerated during this spring’s tribal spearfishing season. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-tribal-spearfishers
The Eastern Seaboard has the Appalachian Trail, the Western Seaboard has the Pacific Rim Trail, and the Rocky Mountains has the Continental Divide Trail. If the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has its way, southeast Michigan will soon have a regional trail of national significance called the Great Lakes Way. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-great-lakes-way
Duluth’s mayor is pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate whether the agency is responsible for erosion along a six-mile stretch of Lake Superior beach. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-beach-erosion
Nestled along Lake Michigan is Grand Haven Michigan’s iconic lighthouse. Now, more than 150 years after it was built in the 1870s, the lighthouse is inching closer to bringing people inside its doors for the first time in years. Read the full story by WZZM-TV- Grand Haven, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-lighthouse
Enbridge Inc. wants to show the Joe Biden administration that the tunnel the Canadian company is building for its oil pipeline under Lake Michigan is exactly what the U.S. president’s plan for better infrastructure is all about. Read the full story by Bloomberg Green.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210406-enbridge
Recent events in the Suez Canal drew worldwide attention to the fact that when a cargo vessel goes sideways in a shipping channel, it can cause big problems. Those working within the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes system reflect on the economic damage that could be done if a similar situation occurred closer to home. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-shipping-delays
A ship quarantined off Milwaukee, Wisconsin because of an outbreak of COVID-19 will finally be allowed to dock on Monday. Read the full story by WLS- TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-shipping-vessel
A drop of $52 million in spending on the cleanup of the Lake Erie watershed is another result of the coronavirus pandemic and a new bill from Ohio State Sen. Theresa Gavarone, R-Bowling Green, is designed to reinvigorate and secure those funds. Read the full story by the Sentinel-Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-erie-cleanup
New York Sea Grant, in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), announced that funding is now available for projects that engage youth under the age of 21 and address local watershed challenges and New York’s Great Lakes Action Agenda priorities. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-ny-sea-grant
A network of farms in the Wisconsin counties of Oconto, Marinette and Shawano aiming to demonstrate environmentally sustainable farming practices has been launched through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-sustainable-farming
A wave of water known as a meteotsunami surged across Lake Michigan and damaged homes and boat docks in the beach town of Ludington, Michigan, almost exactly three years ago. Now, scientists say it was the first of its kind ever documented in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Weather Channel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-meteotsunami
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is forecasting a three-inch rise in Lake Superior water levels during April and expects the lake to remain above average through summer. Read the full story by WDIO – TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-superior-water-levels
Detroit History Tours in Michigan has announced the return of its legendary boat tours on the eighty-five-foot-long tall schooner, the Appledore IV, following the cancelation of last year’s boat season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story by the Detroit Metro Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-detroit-sailing
A federal judge has dismissed the latest attempt by property owners in a northwestern Indiana town to deny public access to Lake Michigan beaches. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-indiana-beaches
The Great Lakes Seaway Partnership, a coalition of U.S. and Canadian maritime groups, commissioned the “American Anchor” film series to “tell the untold tale of shipping in America.” The new short film series shines a spotlight on Great Lakes shipping and its wide-reaching economic impact. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times .
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210405-shipping-film
Wisconsin’s largest business lobbying group has filed a suit against the Department of Natural Resources, claiming the agency doesn’t have the authority to sample for “forever chemicals” in the wastewater discharged by businesses across the state. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-business
The Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to investigate whether the federal agency’s maintenance work on shipping channels could have caused shoreline erosion on Park Point. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-parkpoint
The city of New Baltimore, Michigan, is seeking a grant to restore the stretch of Anchor Bay shoreline that runs through Ruedisale Point Park on Lake St. Clair. Read the full story by The Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-newbaltimore
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources plans to stock more than 400,000 catchable brook, brown, rainbow, and lake trout this year in lakes, rivers and ponds. Read the full story by Waupaca County News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-wisconsinfish
A new study suggests that the global economic cost of invasive species has been at least $1.62 trillion over the last 50 years. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-invasivecosts
Representatives from the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership in Ohio met with the Hancock County Board of Commissioners on Thursday to discuss the development of wetlands in the area. Read the full story by The Courier.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-wetlandsfunds
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is attempting to use national defense policy legislation passed two years ago to force the U.S. Department of Defense into compliance with tough state pollution cleanup laws in Michigan. Read the full story by WJBK–TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-sewers
The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team will provide an update on its continuing investigation of PFAS contamination near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base on Tuesday, April 20. Read the full story by WBKB – Alpena, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-oscoda
Scientists are comparing the diet of bank swallows along shorelines to those that have moved further inland to understand what is causing their population decline. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-shorebird-diet
Enbridge says it has completed the engineering and design phase of a 4-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac that will house a new segment of the controversial Line 5 oil pipeline. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-line5-construction
An on-going study in Lakes Huron and Michigan is finding species-specific differences in what fish eat in the two lakes. Read the full story by Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-fish-diets
April is the month of Earth Day, and every year there is one type of litter that knows no boundaries. Balloons. Read the full story by KPC News – Kendallville, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-balloons
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is attempting to use national defense policy legislation passed two years ago to force the U.S. Department of Defense into compliance with tough state pollution cleanup laws in Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-pfas-cleanup
The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois needs volunteers to prepare Montrose Beach for the return of Monty and Rose, the Great Lakes piping plover pair who use the beach as their springtime nesting ground. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-piping-plovers
The Bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin is the world’s largest freshwater estuary and an effort is underway to declare it a national reserve. The designation would create opportunities, like a state-of-the-art Visitor & Research Center, to help study this important body of water. Read the full story by WFRV – TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-national-reserve
The Lake Express Ferry from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Muskegon, Michigan will start making high-speed trips across Lake Michigan on May 7. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-muskegon-ferry
On Oct. 26, 1952, strong winds caused the ‘S.S City of Grand Rapids’ steamship to snap from its mooring and swing into the St. Joseph Channel, blocking traffic. Read the full story by WZZM -TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-stuck-ship
As Canadian officials lobbied a Michigan Senate committee in March to keep the Line 5 pipeline open, Michigan Sen. Winnie Brinks grew frustrated with a conversation that, up to that point, had focused mainly on the immediate economic and safety implications of a possible shutdown. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-line5
The 2021 shipping season has started in Thunder Bay. Tug Sharon M1 and Barge Huron Spirit arrived in the port late Friday evening. with the vessel combination coming to the Mission Pier entrance around 11:30 p.m. Read the full story by the Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-shipping
The queensnake, an endangered snake in Wisconsin, may cause delays in the reconstruction of a bridge in Racine. Read the full story by The Journal Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-queensnake
Residents living near the infamous Wolverine World Wide dump in west Michigan say they want a “real solution” to the issue of how to clean up the toxic chemical waste left buried in their neighborhood from leather manufacturing. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-wolverine
Restoring one of the rapids on the St. Marys River, which connects lakes Superior and Huron, is helping diverse fish species recover according to a recent study. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-rapids
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is partnering with the Michigan Learning Channel, a statewide distance-learning collaboration by public television stations, to provide environmentally focused instructional videos as part of the content on the new service. Read the full story by The Daily Mining Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-mlc
The governors of four Great Lakes states urged President Joe Biden to prioritize federal investments in long-neglected water infrastructure to advance environmental sustainability and climate resilience. Read the full story by WKZO – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-infrastructure
Officials from Sarnia, Ontario, answered questions from Members of Parliament about Enbridge’s Line 5, a pipeline that carries oil and gas to Sarnia from Western Canada, and spoke to the importance of keeping the pipeline running in Canada. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-line-5
As the international Lake Erie Committee meets to set 2021 commercial harvest limits on walleye and yellow perch, the group’s biologists are anticipating another phenomenal year of walleye fishing. Read the full story by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-walleye
After more than two years, Haldimand County in Ontario is getting up to $4,570,000 in provincial funds to offset costs to repair damages incurred after severe storms on Lake Erie in late 2019. Read the full story by Haldimand News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-storm
The Stannard Rock Lighthouse, a nearly 140-year-old structure in the middle of Lake Superior, is in need of major restoration. Read the full story by WBCK – Battle Creek, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-lighthouse
Michigan residents boating on the Great Lakes or adjoining federally monitored waterways will have a new federal engine cut-off switch requirement to follow beginning April 1. It will only impact boaters traversing U.S. Coast Guard-monitored waterways. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-boats
Several groups in Wisconsin hope to turn back the clock on Dunes Lake and restore it to its natural state of more than 100 years ago. Dunes Lake provides spawning habitat for fish and acts as a natural filter for the lake. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-dunes-lake
Ludington Harbor Tours’ Al Laaksonen said he is taking his tourship Princess to Manistee after being unable to find a location to dock in Ludington for 2021. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-ludington-tour
Ludington Harbor Tours’ Al Laaksonen said he is taking his tourship Princess to Manistee after being unable to find a location to dock in Ludington for 2021. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-ludington-tour
Repairs and restoration are coming to three historic lighthouses in Michigan. More than $126,000 in grant funding from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office have been awarded to the Crisp Point Light Historical Society, the North Manitou Light Keepers and St. Clair County Parks and Recreation. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-lighthouse-repairs
