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Creating Landscapes Free of Invasive Plants Webinar; January 31st 2024 6:30 PM

Attention Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, Garden Club Members and others advising home gardeners; this webinar is for you! Representatives from UWEX and DNR will join Melinda Myers to talk about current threats, available resources and ways we can all work together to manage invasive plants. To register for the free webinar, click the button below!

Melinda Myers is the author of numerous gardening books, including The Garden Book for Wisconsin, Small Space Gardening and The Midwest Gardeners Handbook. She hosts the “How to Grow Anything” DVD series and the Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio program. Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine. She offers free gardening webinars on her website at www.MelindaMyers.com.

Questions? Comments? Contact Chris Acy, the AIS Coordinator covering Brown, Outagamie, Fond du Lac, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties at (920) 460-3674 or chris@fwwa.org!

Follow the Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance’s Winnebago Waterways Program on our Winnebago Waterways Facebook page or @WinnWaterways on X! You can also sign-up for email updates at WinnebagoWaterways.org.

Check out the Keepers of the Fox Program at https://fwwa.org/watershed-recovery/lower-fox-recovery/

Winnebago Waterways and Keepers of the Fox are Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance programs. The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization working to protect and restore water resources in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.

Reporting invasive species is a first step in containing their spread. Maintaining and restoring our waters and landscapes can reduce the impacts even when we don’t have other management options to an invasive species.

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Released Goldfish Grow to Monstrous Size, Destroy Habitat

Original Story: Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times

Inside a fishbowl, the goldfish — a species of carp native to East Asia, bred for aesthetic delight and traditionally believed to bring good fortune — is hardly more than home décor. Usually just a few inches long, it is among the easiest of pets to keep.

But released into the wild, the seemingly humble goldfish, freed from glass boundaries and no longer limited to meager meals of flakes, can grow to monstrous proportions. They can even kill off native marine wildlife and help destroy fragile and economically valuable ecosystems.

“They can eat anything and everything,” said Christine Boston, an aquatic research biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Over the past several years, Ms. Boston and her colleagues have been tracking invasive goldfish in Hamilton Harbour, which is on the western tip of Lake Ontario, about 35 miles southwest of Toronto. The bay has been decimated by industrial and urban development as well as by invasive species — making it among the most environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes.

Their study, published last month in the Journal of Great Lakes Research, could help pinpoint goldfish populations for culling, said Ms. Boston, who is the lead author. “We found out where they are before they start spawning,” she said. “That’s a good opportunity to get rid of them.”

The fast-growing female goldfish, Ms. Boston noted, can also reproduce several times in one season. “They have the resources,” she added, “and they can take advantage of them.”

Goldfish were first spotted in Hamilton Harbour in the 1960s, but largely died off in the 1970s because of industrial contamination. In the early 2000s, their population appeared to recover. Goldfish can tolerate a wide range of water temperatures, reach sexual maturation quickly, and can eat nearly anything, including algae, aquatic plants, eggs and invertebrates, Ms. Boston said.

The feral goldfish are also destructive, uprooting and consuming plants that are home to native species. They help spawn harmful algal blooms by consuming the algae and expelling nutrients that promote its growth, Ms. Boston said, creating conditions that are intolerable to native fish.

To track the goldfish, the researchers captured and sedated 19 of the larger adults and surgically implanted tags the size of AA batteries into their bellies. The tags, which sent signals to acoustic receivers around the bay, provided researchers with a map of their locations.

Eight of the fish died, but the remaining 11 led Ms. Boston and her colleagues to find that the fish tended to spend the winter in deep waters and moved to shallower habitats by spring, where they prepared to spawn.

Some options for removing the goldfish, she said, include capturing them with specialized nets deployed beneath winter ice, or using “electro fishing,” which involves stunning the fish with an electrical current and scooping them from the water. Both techniques, she added, would avoid killing the native fish.

Nicholas Mandrak, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough, said that while goldfish were introduced to North America in the late 1800s, the wild population had begun to “dramatically increase” in the past two decades. Their spawning explosion, he said, resulted partly from people in densely-populated areas releasing pets in urban ponds.

Climate change may play a role, because of the goldfish’s capacity to adapt to warming and poorly oxygenated waters, he added.

“There are literally millions of goldfish in the Great Lakes, if not tens of millions,” Dr. Mandrak said.

Despite the threat, he added, environmental managers tend to forget the goldfish. “They just assume, ‘It’s been there for 150 years — there’s nothing we can do about it.’”

The problem is not unique to Canada. In Australia, a handful of unwanted pet goldfish and their offspring took over a river in the country’s southwest. Feral goldfish have flooded waterways in the United Kingdom, and, in Burnsville, Minn., the discovery of football-size creatures in a lake in 2021 led officials to beg their constituents: “Please don’t release your pet goldfish into ponds and lakes!”

People wrongly believe that because goldfish are “small and cute” they won’t pose a problem when released into the wild, said Dr. Ricciardi. “It’s the ‘Free Willy’ syndrome.”

Goldfish, he added, are just a small part of a vast invasion of non-native species whose outcomes can be unpredictable, and in some cases, are worsened by climate change.

“Under human influence, beasts are moving faster farther in greater numbers, reaching parts of the planet they could never reach before,” he said. “We’re talking about the redistribution of life on Earth.”

Anthony Ricciardi, a professor of invasion ecology at McGill University in Montreal, noted that not all invasive goldfish become supersized, but even the small ones are problematic, outpacing native fish populations and damaging the environment.

Their football-shaped bodies can swell to a size that makes them too large a meal for predators — up to about 16 inches long. “A fish would have to have a really big mouth to eat it,” she said.

Photo Credit: Vincent Tullo (New York Times), Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Questions? Comments? Contact Chris Acy, the AIS Coordinator covering Brown, Outagamie, Fond du Lac, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties at (920) 460-3674 or chris@fwwa.org!

Follow the Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance’s Winnebago Waterways Program on our Winnebago Waterways Facebook page or @WinnWaterways on X! You can also sign-up for email updates at WinnebagoWaterways.org.

Check out the Keepers of the Fox Program at https://fwwa.org/watershed-recovery/lower-fox-recovery/

Winnebago Waterways and Keepers of the Fox are Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance programs. The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization working to protect and restore water resources in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.

Reporting invasive species is a first step in containing their spread. Maintaining and restoring our waters and landscapes can reduce the impacts even when we don’t have other management options to an invasive species.

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PFAS News Roundup: ‘Forever chemicals’ in fish, building a better response to PFAS contamination

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Military investigators make disturbing discovery at O’Hare and Midway airports: ‘It’s there forever‘ — The Cool Down

For years, Chicago and military firefighters used a firefighting foam known as AFFF, which contains toxic PFAS.

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This article explores the experiences of women of colour in the British Army during the Second World War, and the influences of race and gender on their work, focusing specifically on the experiences of British-Indian SOE agent Noor Inayat Khan. Inayat Khan’s experiences in training and fieldwork are analyzed based on her relationship with superiors and colleagues, taking into account their racial and gender-based biases, as well as Inayat Khan’s relationship to her own identity as a woman of colour in a largely white male environment. Ultimately, women within the British Army experienced a number of disadvantages due to prevalent misogynistic beliefs of the time, and as a woman of colour Inayat Khan additionally navigated the difficulties that came with commonplace racism. However, these hardships intersected with the advantages Inayat Khan and other female SOE agents were able to acquire from their unique identities. Throughout this article the intersection of these hardships and advantages is explored to determine their direct influence on Inayat Khan’s ability to carry out her work.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol9/iss1/9

Leah B. Veerasammy

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This paper examines cookbooks written by Black women from the mid eighteenth to late twentieth centuries. As cookbooks, these texts are practical and instructional, while also offering insights into the transnational development of food as an expression of cultural history through the Indigenous, African, and European influences evident within the cuisine. African Americans, and more specifically Black women, have contributed to the food history of the Southern United States by developing a distinct African American cuisine. As the author, I reflect on what it means for me – as a white Canadian woman in a border city – to be writing about and making these recipes. By analysing the cookbooks of Malinda Russell, Edna Lewis, Vertamae Smith-Grosvenor, and Carole and Norma Jean Darden, a timeline of cookbooks from the Civil War to the Black Power Movement can be established. Their commonalities, including the use of cookbooks as autobiography and community memoir are features that resonate with the Civil Rights Movement in the latter half of the twentieth century. Food is more than a means of survival. It is a constantly evolving expression of culture, people, and celebration.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol9/iss1/8

Elspeth McKay

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Since the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States in 1898, American cartoonists, advertisers, authors, filmmakers, and others have promoted racist, sexist, and hyper-sexualized versions of Native Hawaiians to the American public because of their deeply ingrained colonial attitudes. Although Native Studies is a growing area of interest in many fields of study, research on Native Hawaiian media representation and the impact of stereotypes on both Native Hawaiian identity and public views of Native Hawaiians is scarce. This essay uses primary source documents to bring to light the most prominent stereotypes of Native Hawaiians and explore how the origins of these stereotypes can be traced back to American colonialism. Unlike pre-existing works, this essay scrutinizes various examples of Native Hawaiian media representation from a gender viewpoint, a sexuality viewpoint, a racial viewpoint, and a viewpoint that considers exoticization instead of focusing on only one of the aforementioned approaches. By outlining the fallacious stereotypes of the Native Hawaiian community and explaining their origins, this essay provides readers, especially those in the media industry, with the necessary tools to create more culturally competent media content.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol9/iss1/7

Lauren Lopez

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In the American South at the turn of the century, quality education was scarce and legislative laws were put in place to ensure that African American individuals remained far away from Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). As a result, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) became a catalyst for change in a “separate but equal” driven society. This article will explore the significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in elevating Black Americans throughout the twentieth century while assessing the conservative nature of the institutions and their inflexibility towards the various nuances of African American communities. While not particular to HCBUs, a tolerance of toxic masculinity and severe conservatism has resulted in starkly different Black experiences for cis-gendered heterosexual men, in contrast to cis-gendered women and other members of the LGBTQ+ community. Investigating various experiences within HBCUs, this article will preface the unifying/uplifting benefits for Black individuals in these institutions, while further exploring the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality in forming a multilayered level of discrimination that, ultimately, white individuals will not experience. The research will strive to analyze and properly convey the various nuanced experiences throughout HCBUs and assess the variety of factors that have led to these underrepresented interactions, including racial discourse, religious underpinnings, extra-curricular activities, and the uprise of Black feminism. This article will give audiences an understanding of how Historically Black Colleges and Universities have previously and continue to reflect American society, further demonstrating their role in various Black communities and their representation of Black intrarelationships throughout the late nineteenth century to the present.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol9/iss1/6

Kathryn Kendal Ryan

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During the American Vietnam War of the 1960s and early 1970s, a movement dedicated to opposing the draft and assisting draft dodgers and deserters emerged within Canada, where many of these war resisters immigrated. Exile groups were organizations in the anti-draft movement consisting entirely of American war resisters. One prominent exile newsletter was Amex: The American Expatriate in Canada. Amex’s reactions to events in the Canadian anti-draft movement during its second volume (1969-1971) demonstrate how despite frequently criticizing other organizations and individuals within the movement, it ultimately advocated for unity. Amex’s views on discord and unity within the anti-draft movement are representative of the larger movement’s success in maintaining cohesion despite disputes.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol9/iss1/5

Doris R. Lanzkron-Tamarazo

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This paper explores how female sexuality became a primary site for the exercise of British biopolitical regulation as illustrated both in colonial Hong Kong and Singapore and in domestic practice. The application of biopolitical regulation on the subject of female sexuality was based on a discursive production making indissociable the success of the imperial project and the survival of the imperial race and the control of the female body. This discursive production mobilized intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality through the Victorian cult of domesticity, resulting in a racialization of female sexuality with implications transcending the permeable frontier between the metropolis and the colonies. Making “the prostitute” the exemplar of deviant, dangerous and immoral sexuality had discursive repercussions for female sexuality more broadly; explained in contrast to “the prostitute”, the construction of sexual deviance had implications for understandings of sexual conformity and acceptability both in Victorian society and abroad.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

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In 1955, the Harry and Bertha Holt successfully petitioned for the passing of Private Law 475 (Holt Bill) allowing for the adoption of eight orphans from South Korea. This was the beginning of a global revolution in transnational and transracial adoption. Prior to this, the idea of adoption outside of the United States was seldom possible; however, the work of the Holt family rationalized with the pubic and garnered much attention from the government and media. Even more so complicated was the idea of mixed-race Korean children, fathered by American G.I.s stationed in the Korea during the Korean War. Their existence challenged conventional American views of race and hereditary purity. This paper aims to explore the story of Korean orphans in the U.S. and attempt to understand the process of “Americanization to which they were subjected to. It will discuss the ways in which both the U.S. and South Korean governments handled these adoptions and mediated their issues. The media played an important role in the influence of not only the general public but also the images of the Korean orphans and their families, both biological and adoptive. Finally, this paper will take a look at the long-term effects of transnational and transracial adoption on children, taking in to account the research of scholars prominent in the field. This will include the study of identity-formation and cultural maintenance in relation post-war Korean adoptees.

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This paper attempts to provide a more complete analysis of the various conceptions of race and identity held by African American missionaries working in Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there has been some attention paid to African American missionaries working in Africa at this time, very little has been written about how their different theological beliefs impacted their conceptions of race and identity as it is related to the native African population they are interacting with. Through thorough analysis, it can be determined that there were distinct links between the different theological beliefs held by African American missionaries working in Africa at this time and their conceptions of race. For example, evangelical African American missionaries more often associated themselves with a Pan-African identity than non-evangelical ones. Alongside this, their theological understandings of the Back-to-Africa movement were quite different depending on where they worked in Africa and it impacted how they viewed themselves in association with the native African populations they interacted with. Finally, different conceptions of race and identity manifested themselves along eschatological lines with different views on the means of attaining salvation correlating with opposing conceptions of race. The significance of these findings is that although these missionaries’ conceptions of race have already been analyzed, the connection to their theological beliefs is rather unexplored.

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The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

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I Speak for the Fish: The great seasonal flip

I Speak for the Fish is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor Kathy Johnson, coming out the third Monday of each month. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit Public Television. 

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The calendar has flipped to 2024. Our staff members are already tackling new projects. Before they move too deeply into the new year, however, some staff members took a moment to retain the glow of their favorite 2023 project. Moira Harrington, assistant director for communications, shared her thoughts.

I make my living by communicating things—research findings, how we wisely spend the money we get through two federal grants and the activities of my coworkers who give advice on topics like water quality, Great Lakes fish or bluff erosion. Communicating is my job but it’s also personally meaningful and rewarding work.

Moira Harrington. Image credit: Wisconsin Sea Grant

I don’t make a living serving as a volunteer member of the Board of Park Commissioners in my hometown. It’s not a job but it, too, is meaningful and rewarding work.

In 2023, Sea Grant work and volunteer work came together. Upon reflection, it was one of my most rewarding experiences for the year. Six of my colleagues contributed to a far-reaching and valuable resource, the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change report (2021). For my day job, I’ve communicated about the report, and I recently had the chance to share its findings with city staff and fellow park commissioners.

We focused on the report’s tourism and outdoor recreation chapter, talking about how changes in the climate would affect our decisions and policymaking surrounding things like park infrastructure, scheduling recreational sporting events, what plant species in our conservation parks will flourish or fail and ADA access when perhaps more amenities are affected by storms or flooding.

It was a good feeling to see a tangible use for a report my coworkers put so much effort into and that I could spotlight for those serving my city who, before this, had not been familiar with the resource. All around, it was communication satisfaction.

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Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is implementing conservation projects to protect our waters for future generations. Help us prioritize future restoration projects and strengthen funding requests by telling us how you enjoy the lakes!

Please be specific – we are interested in the areas you use the most (we are looking to improve your spots, not steal them!). The map will be made public but your name will not be tied to the points you add.

To get started, please click the button “Take the Survey Now!” or use the QR Code on the right.

Once on the map, click the “Edit” icon located on the upper left corner underneath the search bar. The icon looks like a list with a pencil. Select the type of activity that you would like to add, then click on the map where you do this activity to add it.

Add as many points as you’d like, keeping in mind we are interested in the areas most important to YOU. Adding an area that covers a whole lake is not as helpful as adding three points of the areas you fish the most and the boat launch you use to access it.

If you enjoy our waters in a way not listed, please select the most similar activity or select “other”, and add a description of the activity in the notes.

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Photos circulating social media show what appears to be a long-lost structure stuck at the bottom of Lake Erie, revealed when the storm pushed water from the lake’s western basin out east. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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Although sodium chloride is an effective way to melt ice on roads, it can negatively impact wildlife when used in excess. Leftover road salt — or de-icing salt used on sidewalks and driveways — washes into storm drains and ultimately into our waterways. Read the full story by The Holland Sentinel.

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In Ohio, the Miller Ferry to Put-in-Bay and Middle Bass Island shared several breathtaking photos of Put-in-Bay that show larger-than-life rock structures. Parts of the bay and shoreline usually hidden beneath Lake Erie were on display thanks to the effects of a seiche and high winds. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

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Driving through blizzards, gusting winds, super-chilled water — these are the things that warm the heart of a “laker.” For winter surfers on the Great Lakes, bad weather is almost always good. The worse the weather, the better the surfing. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will host the next segment of its Working Waterfront Lecture Series, featuring a program about the Mackinac Railway ferries and their role in ice breaking on the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Herald-Palladium.

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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and New York Sea Grant have announced they are partnering to bring eight small time grants to regional waterfront communities along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Read the full story by the Finger Lakes Times.

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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is offering everyone a chance to learn more about invasive species and what the average citizen can do to help stop their spread with a series of webinars this winter. Read the full story by WSJM – St. Joseph, MI.

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Basalt is the type of dark, igneous rock that forms when lava oozes out of volcanoes and cools quickly near the surface. Hawaii is mostly built from basalt, but then, so is the North Shore of Lake Superior. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.

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...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST TUESDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills of 20 to 30 below zero. * WHERE...Calumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago, Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Outagamie, Southern Marinette County, and Southern Oconto County

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST TUESDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills of 20 to 30 below zero. * WHERE...Calumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago, Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Outagamie, Southern Marinette County, and Southern Oconto County

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... .Cold temperatures and gusty winds will cause wind chills to fall to 20 to 30 below zero through Monday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills of 20 to 30 below zero.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... .Cold temperatures and gusty winds will cause wind chills to fall to 20 to 30 below zero through Monday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST MONDAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills of 20 to 30 below zero expected.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... .Cold temperatures and gusty winds will cause wind chills to fall to 20 to 30 below zero through Monday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST MONDAY...

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWERS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. TURNING MUCH COLDER TONIGHT WITH DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS EXPECTED... .A potent winter storm will slowly loosen its grip on the forecast area this afternoon. Although the bulk of the accumulating snow has diminished, occasional light snow or snow showers will persist,

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...Gusty northwest winds will continue to cause occasional blowing and drifting snow, reduced visibilities and hazardous road conditions this morning... Although just occasional light snow showers with minor additional accumulations are expected, northwest winds will remain strong with a few gusts of 30 to 35 mph. Areas of blowing and drifting

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...WINTER STORM WILL WIND DOWN TODAY. HOWEVER OCCASIOANL SNOW SHOWERS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. TURNING MUCH COLDER TONIGHT... .A potent winter storm will slowly loosen its grip on the forecast area today. Although the bulk of the accumulating snow has diminished, occasional light snow or snow showers will persist

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM CONTINUES TO IMPACT THE REGION WITH HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A strengthening low pressure system will track from southern Lake Michigan to Lake Huron by Saturday morning. The strong system will bring heavy snow and strong winds to the region. Most of the region should see total snowfall accumulations between 6 to 20 inches of

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Why poor air quality isn’t just a summer problem in Detroit

This article was republished here with permission from Planet Detroit.

By Brian Allnutt, Planet Detroit

Darren Riley noticed poor air quality across much of Michigan this week when off-the-shelf air monitors from companies like IQAir and PurpleAir showed readings as high as 154 for PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter) in Detroit on Sunday – putting the monitors in the red or ‘unhealthy’ range on the Air Quality Index (AQI).

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...A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION WITH HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A strengthening low pressure system will track from central Illinois to the central Great Lakes thie evening and over southwestern Quepec on Saturday. The strong system will bring heavy snow and strong winds to the region. Most of the region should see

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Twenty companies pledge to use all parts of Great Lakes fish by 2025

This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.

By Shealyn Paulis, Great Lakes Echo

Fish-leather purses and wallets may make their way into Great Lakes fashion with an initiative to use 100% of commercially caught fish by 2025.

One of the latest projects of a binational Great Lakes organization is to fully use the region’s whitefish, lake trout, yellow perch, walleye and white sucker.

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River Alliance of Wisconsin welcomes board chair Tyrone Cratic Williams

This month, River Alliance of Wisconsin Board of Directors welcomed its first Black leader, Tyrone Cratic Williams, as chair. The mission of River Alliance is to empower people to protect and restore water.

Tyrone has traveled the world. Every place he’s visited, he has seen the direct connection between the quality of life and the quality of water. The same is true for the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago where he grew up and in Madison, Wisconsin where he now calls home.

In his professional life, Tyrone is a police officer in the City of Madison Police Department, and is a Certified Diversity Practitioner, a Certified Financial Education Instructor, and is a former candidate for the Wisconsin State Assembly.

“There is so much that River Alliance has done, and I have learned to appreciate the incredible work that River Alliance staff, board of directors, and supporters have done to keep this work going,” said Cratic Williams in a statement on River Alliance’s YouTube page. “They are passionate about building community and being inclusive. That’s what resonates with me and that’s what draws me to River Alliance.”

He has brought his deep community connections and passion for leadership to River Alliance of Wisconsin as a member of the board, as a diversity trainer for staff, and now in his service as the new board chair.

“We are grateful for Tyrone’s leadership on our board of directors,” said Executive Director Allison Werner. “His thoughtful and strategic guidance has served us well for years and will help us as we move forward in implementing our long-term vision to provide clean and plentiful water for all living things.”

 

This message is made possible by generous donors who believe people have the power to protect and restore water. Support our work with your contribution today.

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...A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION WITH HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A strengthening low pressure system will track from the mid-Mississippi Valley to the central Great Lakes today into Saturday. The strong system will bring heavy snow and strong winds to the region. Most of the region should see between 7 to 15 inches

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION WITH HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .A strengthening low pressure system will track from the mid-Mississippi Valley to the central Great Lakes today into Saturday. The strong system will bring heavy snow and strong winds to the region. Most of the region should see between 7 to 15 inches

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Supreme Court poop dispute could have big impact on Michigan environment

By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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New regulations to combat the spread of aquatic invasive species went into effect in Pennsylvania on January 1. Boaters are now required to check their boats and trailers for aquatic life and plants before leaving a waterway property. Read the full story by WMPT-TV – York, PA.

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According to lake carriers’ data, there has been a more than 20% increase in shipments across the Great Lakes this year. The weather conditions have made it easier for ships carrying iron ore to sail with fewer ice delays. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.

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Educators from all eight Great Lakes states will have the chance to spend a week with scientists aboard the research vessel Lake Guardian as it crisscrosses Lake Erie this summer. The 2024 shipboard science workshop is open to educators and other professionals whose students are in fifth through 12th grades. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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