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Four piping plover chicks have hatched at Sandy Island Beach State Park in Oswego County, marking the second time this summer that a pair of the rare birds successfully nested on the beach and the first time in about 50 years that two breeding pairs were present on Lake Ontario’s eastern shore. Read full story by Syracuse.com.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210712-piping-plover-ontario

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Restoration specialists with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are at work to bring back 200 acres of globally rare, forested wetland at the 2.5-mile-long island park in the Detroit River. Read the full story by The Voice.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210712-restoration-michigan

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State biologists and outside experts say wolves are not driving the low deer numbers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Instead, they have reported that weather, habitat availability, hunting and other factors have greater influence over deer population trends. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210712-wolves-michigan

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A doctoral student and aerosol researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has published a study about airborne toxins from algal blooms. The study has evidence to suggest harmful toxins and algae itself are found in the air, indicating that airborne algal toxins may be more of a threat in the Great Lakes than previously thought. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210712-algae-pollution

Patrick Canniff

According to a report about 60% of Great Lake beaches were potentially unsafe on at least one day in 2020, and some locations with 20% or more unsafe beach days.  Read the full story by the Plain Dealer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-beaches-ecoli

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A reoccurring environmental nightmare in Lake Erie can be fixed, but governments need the will to do it, says a Canadian Great Lakes researcher. Read the full story by Simcoe Reformer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-lake-erie

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The state of New York is investing $14 million dollars in shoreline protection upgrades on the Olcott Harbor to rebuild and improve the shoreline structures that suffered heavy damage due to flooding in 2019. Read the full story by WKBW-TV – Buffalo, NY.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-shoreline-ontario

Patrick Canniff

Researchers at Michigan State University are enlisting the public’s help in studying water levels and erosion along the Great Lakes’ shorelines. Read the full story by WJRT-TV – Flint, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-public-erosion

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NOAA has released a nearly 200-page document for public comment that includes a draft management plan and environmental impact statement for the proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary, which aims to protect and promote shipwrecks and other historically significant assets. Read the full story by Oswego County News Now.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-ontario-marine-sanctuary

Patrick Canniff

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crews will be surveying for sea lamprey and applying lampricides in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula this month. Read the full story by WLUC–TV – Negaunee, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-lamprey-michigan

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A clash between elemental forces — sun, rain, heat and ice — is what is threatening to upend centuries of relative stability along the Great Lakes’ 10,000 miles of shoreline, including the 22 miles that define Chicago’s eastern edge. And the best explanation is climate change. Read full story by The New York Times.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-climate-change

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Scientists first noticed an invasive population of zebra mussels in Michigan’s Gull Lake in the mid-1990s. Afterwards, unexpected harmful algal blooms started appearing. Now, a long-term research project at the lake has shown that the mussels led to an increase in a type of bacteria called Microcystis that produces the algae. Read full story by Great Lakes Echo.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-mussel-algae

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Chicago’s indomitable piping plovers, Monty and Rose, have welcomed three chicks with a fourth still possibly on the way. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-piping-plovers

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Shoreline cities and towns in the Great Lakes region will be spending heavily in coming years to fix public infrastructure damaged by recent flooding and erosion, with estimated costs approaching $2 billion, officials said Thursday. Read the full story by The Associated Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210709-flooding

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Detroit mayor Mike Duggan is requesting federal assistance to assist the city with heavy damage from severe storms. In the past week, these severe storms hit Metro Detroit leaving home flooded and vehicles stranded on roadways. Read the full story by WDIV – TV – Detroit, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210628-flooding-detroit

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week it will be conducting a full analysis on the potential environmental impacts of Canadian oil company Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel before deciding whether to issue permits for its construction. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210628-line-5

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Sometime in the next week, four eggs belonging to piping plovers Nellie and Nish are expected to hatch at Maumee Bay State Park, Ohio. Nellie and Nish are the first pair to be seen nesting on Lake Erie in Ohio since the 1930s. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210628-piping-plovers-birds

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Using stock from the Rainy River on the Minnesota-Ontario border, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources began stocking juvenile lake sturgeon in the Otter Tail River and other Red River tributaries in 1997 in an effort to reintroduce the species to the Red River Basin. Twelve years later, the first reproductively mature female sturgeon was discovered in the Red River Basin in 2019. Read the full story by The Bemidji Pioneer.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210628-sturgeon-fish

Patrick Canniff