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In a significant stride toward bolstering environmental journalism, Michigan Public is amplifying its coverage of the Great Lakes and drinking water issues, thanks to a generous $200,000 grant. This funding breathes new life into the Great Lakes News Collaborative. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.

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By Donté Smith The surge in electric bike (e-bike) sales has been nothing short of “obvious,” according to Rick Teranes, the co-owner of Bikes Blades & Boards in Grosse Pointe, Michigan “Sales of e-bikes have multiplied in recent years,” Teranes said, highlighting the significant shift in Metro Detroit’s cycling landscape driven by their growing popularity. […]

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By Katie Finkbeiner Capital News Service In Iron Mountain, Michigan, Sandstone Terrace rooftop bar shares an alley with First National Bank and Trust. And hanging over the alley: a sky art installation. In the summer of 2023, the installation consisted of a rainbow assortment of umbrellas. In June 2024, the umbrellas were replaced by rotating […]

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Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in informing the local communities is appreciated.

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Celebrating Local Heroes: Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance Announces 2024 Impact Award Winners

2024 Impact Award - A glass Circle with Green and Blue swirling inside

Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is excited to announce the 2024 Impact Award recipients, recognizing local leaders and organizations making significant strides in environmental conservation and sustainability.

Lifetime Achievement

Leading the awards is Hallet “Bud” Harris, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for over 50 years of tireless work in water conservation. As a professor and advocate, Bud has played a pivotal role in major projects like the Fox River PCB cleanup, shaping the ecological future of the bay of Green Bay. Even after retirement, his efforts to raise over $1 million for water monitoring programs and continued leadership in the conservation community have left an enduring legacy that still inspires future generations.

Impact Awards

Alongside Harris, several others will be honored for their unique contributions:

Seven Oaks Dairy is being recognized for pioneering sustainable farming practices that improve soil health and water quality. Their work as part of the Climate Smart Dairy Study and commitment to sharing best practices is helping shape the future of sustainable agriculture.

Jeff Mazanec, a Senior Consultant at raSmith and long-time board member of Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, is honored for his contributions to stormwater management and community engagement. His passion for water-based recreation and innovative tools like PermiTrack have helped enhance local water quality efforts.

Community First Credit Union has earned recognition for its eco-friendly infrastructure. By integrating native plantings and permeable pavers at their facilities, they are setting a positive example of how sustainable business practices can benefit the environment.

Ryan Kudish, meteorologist at WFRV-TV Local 5, is receiving an award for his work on Sustainably Speaking, a news segment that raises awareness about environmental issues and inspires community action.

Happiest Hour

These honorees will be celebrated at The Happiest Hour on October 10 at The Hillside at Plamann Park in Appleton. Join us to celebrate their achievements and support sustainability!

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After 10 million pieces of beach trash, Chicago advocates push for sustainable packaging

Plastic is the dominant source of beach trash in the Great Lakes region.

That’s the finding by the Chicago-based non-profit Alliance for the Great Lakes in a recently released report that analyzed beach litter picked up by its volunteers over the past 20 years.

“Twenty years of data collected by volunteers shows that 86% of the trash was either fully or partially made from plastic,” the Alliance said in a press release.

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Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is banking on public oversight of the largest Great Lake to help gauge the threat of increasingly common algal blooms. Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, can produce toxins that pose a danger to public health, said Kait Reinl, research coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Lake […]

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Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2024/09/19/wisconsin-officials-ask-the-public-to-report-algal-blooms-in-lake-superior/

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By Clara Lincolnhol “Be curious, not judgmental.” This quote from the popular comedy-drama “Ted Lasso” is how a professor of energy law recommends we approach conversations about energy policy and politics. “We can be a force that fights against demonization and the nastiness online and instead ask questions to people who introduce an idea that’s […]

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Energy News Roundup: Michigan, Michigan, Michigan

There’s a whole lot of energy stuff happening in Michigan.

The push to restart the Palisades nuclear reactor in the southwestern part of the state is gaining steam. So is the opposition. The plant, which shuttered in 2022 amid competition from cheaper energy sources, is now set to receive more than $2.4 billion in public subsidies.

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Patchy fog, locally dense with visibilities around one-quarter mile, was still impacting locations close to the bay and Lake Michigan. The dense fog will result in locally hazardous driving conditions through about 9 am. When driving in fog, slow down, use your low beam headlights and keep a safe distance from other vehicles, as the visibility may change rapidly in a short distance. Allow extra time to reach your destination during the morning commute.

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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.4f16d467b0fa166960d0d704d00db3c7a9ff5d10.001.1.cap

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Patchy fog, locally dense with visibilities from one-quarter to one-half of a mile, were impacting locations close to the bay and Lake Michigan. The dense fog will result in locally hazardous driving conditions. Any fog will lift by 8 or 9 AM. When driving in fog, slow down, use your low beam headlights and keep a safe distance from other vehicles as the visibility may change rapidly in a short distance. Allow extra time to reach your destination.

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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

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Who is working to preserve and restore wetlands in Metro Detroit?

By Erica Hobbs, Planet Detroit

This article was republished with permission from Planet Detroit. Sign up for Planet Detroit’s weekly newsletter here.

Wetlands don’t often come to mind when thinking about major metropolitan cities like Detroit. Bogs, marshes, vernal pools, and swamps contrast starkly with the city’s skyscrapers, roads, and industrial plants, and up to 90 percent of the area’s wetlands along the Detroit River have been lost since European settlement.

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Great Lakes, Great Read, the “one book, one community” program designed to inspire passion and connection to the Great Lakes Watershed through reading, will kick off the season with a series of three webinars to introduce the authors and books chosen for the 2024-2025 season. Meet GLGR authors Sally Cole-Misch and Joanne Robertson in conversation with Wisconsin Water Librarian Anne Moser on September 25 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT. Registration is required. Individual author webinars will be held Oct. 2 with Sally Cole-Misch and Oct. 9 with Joanne Robertson. Both webinars will also start at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT. Everyone is invited to join this Great Lakes basin-wide book club!

Local public libraries and bookstores can host watch parties, and individuals can register on their own or host their own watch party. Flyers are available to share with communities here: https://greatlakesgreatread.org/toolkit/.

Great Lakes, Great Read is modeled after One Book One Community and state- or province-wide annual reading programs that choose one book for libraries, citizen groups of all kinds and the public to read and enjoy over the course of a year. Whether you live near the Great Lakes or far away, their beauty, history and significance are impossible to ignore. They’ve been home to 120 bands of Indigenous people, provided drinking water for millions, held flourishing biodiversity and 20% of the world’s surface fresh water and more. Dive into this project and deepen your connection to a system that shaped the U.S. and Canada and continues to sculpt stories today.

The Great Lakes, Great Read program features two books: “The Water Walker” by Joanne Robertson is the children’s selection, and the adult selection is “The Best Part of Us” by Sally Cole-Misch.

“The Water Walker” is the story of a determined Ojibwe grandmother, a “nokomis” named Josephine Mandamin, who walks to raise awareness of the need to protect “nibi” (water). Robertson wrote and illustrated the book, which was published in 2017.

Published in 2020, Sally Cole-Misch’s award-winning novel, “The Best Part of Us,” explores a family’s connections to an island in the Canadian waters of an inland lake just north of Lake Huron, and how those ties are tested through nature and family dynamics.

The authors are available for in-person and online conversations and presentations with libraries, book clubs and other groups throughout the region during the 2024-2025 period.

The Great Lakes, Great Read website, https://www.greatlakesgreatread.org, offers further details on the authors, their books, book discussion questions, a toolkit and other resources, including contact lists for states and provinces.

This initiative is made possible by an Ideas to Action grant from WiLS in Madison, Wisconsin. In-kind support was provided by the staff with the Wisconsin Water Library at UW Madison, Wisconsin Sea Grant, the Wisconsin Library Association and UW-Parkside. Wisconsin Sea Grant and the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute support the Wisconsin Water Library.

Several organizations, including the Wisconsin Water Library at UW Madison, Public Libraries of Saginaw, the Gail Borden Library and the Library of the Great Lakes have partnered to create and carry out the Great Lakes, Great Read program. For more information and to sign up to participate, visit https://www.greatlakesgreatread.org.

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News Releases | Wisconsin Sea Grant

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Ohio-based plaintiffs seeking strict limits on agricultural runoff allowed into Lake Erie streams and tributaries have been given until Monday to tell a U.S. District Judge how they would like the case to proceed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the state’s first-ever Total Maximum Daily Load for the lake’s western basin last year, but plaintiffs claim it wasn’t strong enough and renewed their lawsuit. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-algal-bloom-litigation

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In Michigan, Chinook and Coho salmon pick up on decreasing day length and cooler temperatures as signals to migrate into river systems to spawn. Warmer temperatures don’t always bode well for fishermen looking to land salmon as they make their fall run, though decreasing daylight will allow water temperatures to drop. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-salmon-run

James Polidori

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The Neeskay, a Milwaukee-based research vessel, got its start more than 70 years ago as a supply vessel in the Korean War. Today, it travels Lake Michigan on various research projects for UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences and other agencies, helping scientists in the state gather valuable data. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

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James Polidori

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Construction crews began to replace the Union Street Dam in Traverse City, Michigan, with a unique structure called FishPass which is designed to enable native fish migration while stopping invasive species. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission is spearheading the project that is expected to finish in 2027. Read the full story by MLive.

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Enbridge, a Canadian energy company, is still waiting for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build its proposed tunnel that would house a segment of its Line 5 pipeline. As Anishnaabe and environmental groups in the U.S. continue to ask for the complete closure of the pipeline, a delayed environmental impact statement is pushing the start of construction until at least 2026. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-pipeline-tunnel

James Polidori

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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received 195 reports of algal blooms and related illnesses on Wisconsin lakes as of September 9, exceeding the 178 reports received last year. The DNR confirmed around 72 percent were cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae blooms, that may have been caused by heavy rains earlier this summer carrying more nutrients into lakes. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-algal-bloom-reports

James Polidori

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The Leelanau Historical Society and Museum in Leelanau County, Michigan, is hosting its 3rd annual Maritime History Festival. The event will feature displays showcasing the maritime culture of the area through lighthouse and ship models, a shipwreck exhibit, and the 19th annual live exhibit “Wood Boats on the Wall” which will feature classic wooden boats from around the region. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-maritime-history-festival

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At an upcoming event on efforts to remediate the St. Clair River Area of Concern, speakers will provide information on microplastics in the Great Lakes, efforts to restore the St. Clair River aquatic environment, and the four remaining beneficial use impairments on the St. Clair River. Read the full story by Windsor News Today.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240918-restoration-presentation

James Polidori