Upcoming changes to the fishing regulations in part of northeastern Ontario are drawing mixed reactions from anglers. A particular point of contention in the changes, which took effect on January 1, 2024, is a reduction in the keeping size of walleye in Fisheries Management Zone 10. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240103-fishing-regulations
The mysterious disappearance of a commercial fishing boat in Lake Michigan, and the 18-month-long search that followed, is the topic of the next program in the Maritime Speaker Series offered by the Door County Maritime Museum in Wisconsin. The public can attend the program on January 4 in person at the museum or see it online via Zoom. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240103-shipwreck-program
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By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
On an early Thursday evening, people are seated around the dining room of Trattoria Stella, an Italian restaurant on the ground floor of the Grand Traverse Commons, just outside the city’s downtown area.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/01/a-valuable-resource-traverse-city-restaurants-aim-to-reduce-food-waste-greenhouse-gases/
Keep up with PFAS-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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PFAS experts gather to address growing chemical crisis — Great Lakes Now
The ongoing “forever chemicals” crisis took center stage during EGLE’s fourth annual Great Lakes PFAS Summit.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/01/pfas-news-roundup-forever-chemicals-awareness-lacking-among-u-s-adults/
Author Sue Leaf’s latest work starts in 1977 when she and her then boyfriend embarked on a 185-mile bike trek from Michigan across Lake Superior’s southern shore to Duluth.
It ends many decades later as she, and the boyfriend who became her husband, settle into a new Lake Superior cabin designed by her architect daughter.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/01/book-review-author-sue-leafs-latest-takes-a-philosophical-look-at-life-on-lake-superiors-south-shore/
Sailing on ice, Lake Ontario winter surfing and three Lake Michigan news stories.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/01/surf-and-slide-episode-2203-rebroadcast/
Actors Neil Brookshire and Cassandra Bissell practice their lines for “Me and Debry,” a play about marine debris held at the Door County Public Library in 2022. Image credit: Bonnie Willison, Wisconsin Sea Grant
What is marine debris, what are its impacts and what can we do about it? These are the central messages of a play written on behalf of Wisconsin Sea Grant by David Daniel with American Players Theatre of Wisconsin.
“Me and Debry,” (pronounced “debris”), is a half-hour, whimsical, audience-participation play about litter (marine debris) in the Great Lakes. It had its “world premiere” in Wisconsin’s Door County in October 2022 and was performed three times at the Gilmore Fine Arts School in Racine, Wisconsin, for fifth- and sixth-grade students in May 2023.
The play’s script has been fine-tuned through these performances and is now available for others to use for free, complete with props.
Ginny Carlton, Wisconsin Sea Grant’s education outreach specialist, recently discussed the play and why schools or other educational institutions might be interested in performing it.
Ginny, what is marine debris and what message does the play offer about it?
So, a lot of times people think about gasoline or oil on the water because we often see that on the news. Technically, from NOAA’s perspective (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), that isn’t marine debris. It’s obviously pollution, but the definition requires marine debris to be a solid. It can be anything from something really small, like a microplastic, to something quite large, like a derelict fishing vessel.
Often, environmental messaging can be sort of depressing and doom and gloom. We wanted to provide students with an uplifting message. One of the lines in the play is, “If it’s to be, it’s up to me.” This particular line is repeated a couple times during the play, so that hopefully, the students come to understand that they can have a positive role in at least considering what to do and making a change that would have a positive impact.
Ginny Carlson (left) instructs Racine elementary students in an environmental stewardship day project at Quarry Lake County Park as part of the marine debris project that the “me and Debry” play came from. Image credit: Bonnie Willison, Wisconsin Sea Grant
What is special about the play compared to other marine debris educational materials?
Two reasons: one, it presents the material in a slightly different messaging format. Rather than reading a textbook or watching a video, it has an opportunity for interaction. There’s a lot of audience participation built into the play script. There are four central roles that are performed by members of the audience. One is a crane, another is a kayaker, a fish and a kid. Then beyond those four central roles, there’s also audience participation opportunities when the play starts to talk about what we call the eight R’s. Many teachers and students are already familiar with three of the R’s. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The play introduces five others for the students and the educators to think about. (Rethink, Refuse, Repurpose, Refurbish and Repair)
I think another reason is that it has the potential of getting people up moving and actually doing, and inspiring action beyond the actual performance. So, providing an opportunity for the students to consider their own behavior and their own impact on this issue and potentially making some minor adjustments in what they’re doing. Obviously other educational curriculum and formats also attempt to do that, but for some reason, I think just having the audio and visual together and having live interactions with people brings it one step further along than just listening to a teacher talk about it or with a PowerPoint or watching a video, perhaps.
Also, the script design itself is a rhyming format, and that tends to grab people’s attention, and it somehow helps people to remember the content better than just having it in regular prose.
Do actors in the play need to memorize lines?
Even with the actors that were at Door County and in The Gilmore Fine Arts School, we told them that there was no need for them to memorize lines. They could do what they called a reading performance, which means that you can have the script in hand. The desire is to have you pre-read it, so you’re not standing and reading like a storybook-style program, but that you have some familiarity with the script ahead, but have it there to provide a refresher as you move along.
What do students get out of the play in addition to marine debris education?
Students get an opportunity to do some public speaking. I think oftentimes students don’t have the opportunity to publicly speak in front of their peers and or other individuals. So that can be a real confidence-booster to have the opportunity to do that.
They also have an opportunity to consider different worldviews and different perspectives. So, by including the characters of the crane and the fish our intention and hope was that perhaps the students or youth that are watching the performances and interacting with the performances would understand how humans can and do impact other organisms and our responsibility to them — a stewardship message that is part of the play as well.
The “Me and Debry” script is now available to use for free. Image credit: Bonnie Willison, Wisconsin Sea Grant
How do people get the script if they want it?
The easiest way to obtain it is to simply download it from our Wisconsin Sea Grant Education website. We have it available in English, and then the four main character parts for the audience members are in English, Spanish, and Hmong translations as well. The eight R materials for audience participation, they’re available in English, Spanish, and Hmong directly from our website. We also include all that material in a costume kit and an educational kit that you can make a request to have sent to you within Wisconsin. That link is also on the education website. So, you simply make a request for the materials to be interlibrary loaned to you.
The kit has costumes for the two primary actors. Basically, a T-shirt and a pair of oversized sunglasses, so it’s not elaborate costuming. And similarly, it has costumes for the four main characters. And then supporting props for the various eight R topics.
Does it cost anything?
No. Just like our other educational kits at this time, there’s no charge. We will ship it on our cost, and we also pay for the return shipping.
Me and Debry, is part of a two-year project funded by Wisconsin Sea Grant with grants from the National Sea Grant College Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the state of Wisconsin.
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While driving down a snowy rural road, admiring Minnesota’s winter landscape, you catch a glimpse of something in the distance. Its person standing on a frozen river wearing bright lime green clothing. "Uffda!", you’d say! What could that person be doing!?
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By Matthew Brown, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. and limit logging as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the agency was adopting an “ecologically-driven” approach to older forests — an arena where timber industry interests have historically predominated.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/ap-biden-administration-moves-to-protect-old-growth-forests-as-climate-change-brings-fires-pests/
Science Says What? is a monthly column written by Great Lakes now contributor Sharon Oosthoek exploring what science can tell us about what’s happening beneath and above the waves of our beloved Great Lakes and their watershed.
In the summer of 2017, Teskey Baldwin, a student at Ontario’s University of Guelph, was studying whether pitcher plants near water capture more insects than those farther away.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/science-says-what-pitcher-plants-feast-on-salamanders-unveiling-a-brutal-side-of-botanical-carnivory/
By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, 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.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/upper-peninsula-tribe-closer-to-compensation-for-land-seized-by-the-u-s-government/
Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Pritzker signs Illinois measure allowing new small-scale nuclear technology — St. Louis Public Radio
Illinois Gov.
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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/energy-news-roundup-community-solar-projects-seen-as-key-step-toward-energy-justice-in-illinois-great-lakes-offshore-wind-farm-put-on-hold/
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The calendar will soon flip to 2024. Our staff members are ready to tackle new projects in the coming months. Before they move more deeply into the new year, however, some staff members took a moment to retain the glow of their favorite 2023 project. Video Producer Bonnie Willison shared her thoughts.
Some of my favorite projects this year came out of an Eat Wisconsin Fish trip arranged by Sharon Moen. As Wisconsin Sea Grant’s food-fish outreach coordinator, Sharon visits commercial fishers and fish producers across Wisconsin to see what they’re up to and how Sea Grant can help. As the staff video/podcast producer, I tag along to produce profile videos of the interesting people in this corner of the fishing industry.
This June, we traveled to the Mississippi River, including stops in Menomonie, Mondovi, Prairie du Chien and Genoa. I think all of us on the trip (myself, Sharon, Emma Hauser, Jenna Mertz, and three summer outreach scholars) learned a lot about the fisheries of the Mississippi River.
One video I produced features Mike Valley, whose Fish and Cheese shop in Prairie du Chien is as colorful as his stories. Another video I made features the family behind Jeremiah’s Bullfrog Fish Farm and some of the best food visuals of the year, which made me hungry while I was editing.
When I think of video projects that carry out the Sea Grant mission, I think of my trips with Eat Wisconsin Fish. The profile videos educate the public about the sustainability of Wisconsin’s fish, our fishing heritage and career pathways in the industry. The videos promote Sea Grant’s brand, but also provide a service to the small business owners – a professionally made video that they can use to promote their business.
Lastly, the trip was a great in-the-field experience for our summer outreach scholars. My video production intern, Jeremy Van Mill, got to help shoot in five locations in two days, which, I think, is invaluable experience for someone looking for a career in video. Some of his footage made it into the final videos.
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Bridget Kufner, cleaning the banks of the Fox River.
“The visual of green sludge and litter, along the shoreline or floating, it makes me sad.”
Bridget Kufner grew up along the Branch River in Manitowoc County. She knew that sometimes you could swim and play in the river, but other times you didn’t want to go near it. As she got older, she realized why it was like that. “I don’t know all the complex causes,” Bridget said, ”but I know there is impact of people using fertilizer on their lawns or farm fields.”
Now living in Appleton, Bridget sees that Lake Winnebago is the same. Sometimes people can play in the water and enjoy it; sometimes they avoid it. “It makes me sad for the creatures that rely on the fresh water,” she said. “If I don’t want to be in it, they don’t want to be in it. But they’re wildlife and don’t have a choice.”
So Bridget decided to make a difference. “I started on walks with my dog,” she remembered. “I would see trash everywhere and get angry. Frustrated. Why do people do this?”
Instead of staying angry, she decided to just start picking the litter up.
“You see groups do adopt-a-highway, but there isn’t a similar program for waterways,” Bridget said. “That seems important.” (Fox-Wolf has created this in our Adopt-A-Launch program. See below.)
Then three years ago, she got connected to Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance when she heard about the Annual Watershed Cleanup. She signed up for a spot where she cleaned the riverbank from a kayak. “I was hooked!” she said.
Because of her positive experience, Bridget decided to earn her Master Naturalist accreditation. After completing the classroom portion, she was required to begin hours of ongoing service to the community. Those hours need to be completed with an organization. Bridget immediately thought of Fox-Wolf and called Kelly, the Trash Free Waters coordinator.
“Meeting with Kelly was life-changing, really,” said Bridget. “I was trying to find a community of people that really have a passion to help. I never saw anyone else doing this on their own, on a regular basis. I never found them before Kelly.”
As Bridget provides her 40 hours of service a year, she is now connected to more people every year. She completes most of her hours in our watershed, in Appleton city parks or High Cliff State Park. She has purchased and donated trash pickers to High Cliff State Park for volunteers to check out. She is building her own community by making it easy for people to join her in keeping our waterways clean.
Bridget is excited to continue to work with Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, meeting people and building her community. “People should check out one of Fox-Wolf’s events,” Bridget said. “I hope to go to every event from this point on!”
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance has created the Adopt-A-Launch program to keep our launches clean and safe while also improving our lakes and rivers. Similar to the Adopt-a-Highway program, volunteers visit their launch multiple times a year to complete basic tasks:
In addition to improving the boat launch, adopters get their name up for all to see! Every adopted launch has a sign posted that prominently displays the name of the group that cares for that place.
There are currently 13 launches adopted from Fond du Lac to Green Bay, with more inquiries in process. Launches can be adopted by individuals, clubs, organizations, or businesses.
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Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/library/2023-12-seasons-greetings
William Hart, director of a documentary about the Flint water crisis called “Lead and Copper,” joined Great Lakes Now’s Anna Sysling for a discussion about the film.
The small team began producing the film in 2016, and with the 10-year anniversary of the beginning of the crisis coming up in April 2024, Hart said they wanted to get it out and ready to screen around that time.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/great-lakes-now-sits-down-with-director-of-flint-water-crisis-film-lead-and-copper/
An acquisition by the Little Traverse Conservancy and 150 donors ensures preservation for the biggest piece of undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline in the northwest corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. The 56-acre nature preserve is slated to open next year and is named Enji-minozhiiyaamigak, “The Place of Peacefulness,” in the language of the Anishinaabe. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-new-preserve
The State of Michigan’s 2023 State of the Great Lakes report is a long list of concerns and proposed solutions. The report takes an expansive view of the Great Lakes, including streams, wetlands, and groundwater issues. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-michigan-report
Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) will build a $10 million environmental science research station along the Saginaw River in Bangor Township, Michigan, following the approval of $7.5 million in funding by the state of Michigan. Read the full story by The Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-huron-station
The new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes office in Chicago is optimistic about cleaning up contaminated sediment sites in the region by 2030 but emphasizes the challenge of achieving this goal due to the need for more non-federal financial support. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-epa-goal
Ice cover has increasingly become an elusive feature of the Great Lakes as warming winters disrupt normal processes of the lakes freezing over. Tracking ice coverage for the 2023-2024 winter is still on the early side, but there are early signs this year will be below the average. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-ice-cover
Between 2015 and 2023, paddlers in the nonprofit organization Standup for Great Lakes completed paddleboard journeys across every one of the Great Lakes to raise money for Great Lakes issues. Read the full story by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-paddleboard-charity
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation recently made the decision to indefinitely halt the Icebreaker offshore wind project off the coast of Cleveland, Ohio. Inflation, increasing costs, lengthy permitting processes, as well as litigation by opponents were cited as reasons for stopping development. Read the full story by The Cleveland Scene.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-icebreaker-shelved
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers recently announced that three Northeast Wisconsin companies have signed a pledge to use 100% of the fish they catch to reduce waste. Read the full story by WTAQ-WLUK – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-fish-pledge
During the 2023 cruising season, 2,500 passengers visited West Michigan, which received a profit of nearly $700,000 in economic impact. Read the full story by WWMT-TV – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-cruise-revenue
Usually, you’ll find Santa riding his sleigh in December; but in Northern Michigan, he’s riding the waves. Read the full story by WWTV-TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-surf-michigan
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago brought a hands-on learning experience to Racine, Wisconsin, students last week, teaching them about water pollution and microplastics in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Journal Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231222-racine-microplastics
Editor’s Note: “Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A direct descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, she lives and works in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her two books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and she is at work on a children’s story.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/nibi-chronicles-how-to-craft-a-memorandum-of-understanding-with-trout/
Michigan residents and activists are pushing the auto and steel industries to buy cleaner, more sustainable steel to clean up pollution in the Detroit-Dearborn area.
Recently Industrious Labs, a climate advocacy group, gave guided tours of Detroit and Dearborn auto and steelmaking factories to try to convince automakers to switch from steel produced traditionally into sustainable, cleaner steel.
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Four weeks into her new position as the top executive of the U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes office in Chicago, Teresa Seidel has mixed news for the region.
She readily accepts the goal she inherited from her predecessor to clean up decades-old contaminated sediment sites in the region by 2030, a mission she refers to as a “moon shot.” The sites, known as Areas of Concern (AOCs), are on a list developed in 1987 and their continued presence makes it hard for the region to shake its derisive “Rust Belt” stereotype.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/new-epa-great-lakes-executive-warns-on-moon-shot-cleanup-goal-for-toxic-sites/
If you’d like to enhance your cultural diversity in the upcoming year, you might want to consider joining a monthly online book group focused on Ojibwe culture and the Great Lakes. Wisconsin Sea Grant formed it for teachers, parents and librarians (anyone who loves to read with children) in partnership with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. The book club is open to anyone in the Great Lakes region who wishes to join. Each month’s discussion includes an Ojibwe honored guest who shares wisdom and stories based on the theme of the book.
Visit: go.wisc.edu/Maadagindan to see the recent titles and send an email to Anne Moser akmoser@aqua.wisc.edu to join the email list.
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Books usually speak to readers through words and, sometimes, illustrations.
But we can learn what motivated their authors by speaking directly to them, as Great Lakes Echo correspondents did in interviews this year about new books about environmental issues in the region.
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This year, River Alliance celebrated our 30th anniversary. While we looked back at the past three decades of clean water protection by inspiring advocates around the state (find some of their victories in our Fall 2023 newsletter), we’ve also spent a lot of time looking forward into River Alliance’s future.
Earlier this year, we dove deep into a strategic planning exercise that will guide our actions for the next five years. We had discussions with our staff, board, and friends who offered their insights into what River Alliance can uniquely offer.
Our new five-year strategic plan renews our focus on group engagement. We will work to establish relationships in new communities and deepen relationships in existing communities – especially marginalized communities that face systemic barriers to resources, access to clean/safe water, and the clean water movement.
In the future, we will also focus even more on climate resilience and a sustainable food system. River Alliance will continue to collaborate with local watershed protection organizations, farmer-led councils working on regenerative agriculture, and dam removal/hydropower reform advocates so that our interconnected waters will be clean for this generation and the next.
We are also putting strategies in place for new community-centric ways of building support for clean water, and diversifying our board, staff, and supporters.
As always, there is a lot of work to do, but we are prepared to work collaboratively to take action.
– Allison Werner, Executive Director
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Help River Alliance of Wisconsin celebrate our 30th anniversary! Support our work with your contribution today.
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By Zaria Johnson, Ideastream Public Media
This story was originally published by Ideastream.
Cleveland’s off-shore wind turbine project has been halted after the project’s private development partner pulled financial support.
The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp, or LEEDCo, is leading the Icebreaker Wind project.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/12/clevelands-icebreaker-wind-project-on-hold-due-to-rising-costs-pushback/
A University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student lost a $10K remote controlled research craft after it stopped communicating with the controller on the west side of Lake Michigan. After a treacherous 15-day journey the craft was recovered 120 miles in the other direction. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231220-research-vessel
Many species of ducks, geese and swans migrate from as far north as the Arctic tundra to the Great Lakes during the winter when the waterfowl’s usual northern waters freeze. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20231220-weird-ducks
