Indiana moved to protect seven remaining inland lakes with cisco; Illinois backs re-establishing them in southern Lake Michigan. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210211-cisco
As issues with shoreline erosion on Lake Huron continue to plague Bluewater, Michigan residents along the lakeshore, councillors agreed to defer a decision on a policy to allow residents to install shoreline protections on municipal properties. Read the full story by the Shoreline Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210211-erosion-protection
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Twenty-six people fishing on Lake Superior were rescued when an ice floe broke away from the Minnesota shoreline, stranding them in frigid weather.
The Duluth Fire Department got a call Tuesday morning from a resident who saw ice shanties floating away. Crews brought the anglers to shore a few at a time by boat.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/02/ap-26-rescued-ice-floe-lake-superior-minnesota/
Upper Peninsula man explores intersection of spirituality and nature.
The post Seeking connection and meaning under a Hunger Moon first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2021/02/11/seeking-connection-and-meaning-under-a-hunger-moon/
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Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/02/pfas-house-toxic-forever-chemicals-home/
The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Great Lakes Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are embarking on a project that will restore disappearing wildlife habitats along a stretch of Lake St. Clair. Read the full story by Grosse Pointe News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-ford-cove
The first Europeans in Wisconsin documented how the Menominee people would use spears to catch sturgeon in Lake Winnebago. It’s a tradition that’s carried on today, not for sustenance, but for sport in the annual sturgeon spearing season. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-sturgeon-menominee
With multiple days of below freezing temperatures, Lake Erie ice coverage has increased to nearly 50% since this weekend. With arctic air staying in the forecast, we will most likely see near 70% ice concentration on the lake by Valentine’s Day, helping shut off the lake effect snow machine. Read the full story by WOIO-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-frozen
Workers in Sarnia, Ontario, are raising concerns about the job losses that could occur if a U.S. governor’s plan to shut down an Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline succeeds. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-line5
An ice bridge forming in Lake Huron is providing hope for southern St. Clair County communities impacted by flooding. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-ice-bridge
Lightships served as an alternative to brick and mortar lighthouses and generally marked hazardous shallows, shoals, or sometimes dangers in deeper waters of the Great Lakes. One was off the coast of Milwaukee for decades. Read the full story by On Milwaukee.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-floating-lighthouse
Applications are now being accepted for a residency program in which artists can get paid $3,200 to live and work on Lake Superior’s Rabbit Island for three weeks. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-art-island
The health of aquatic ecosystems depends on the supply of key nutrients, especially phosphorus. In the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem, the North American Great Lakes, control of this nutrient may have been lost to an invasive species. Read the full story by the National Science Foundation.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-key-nutrient
Advocates are calling for an increase in protected areas at Chicago’s Montrose Beach to encourage more endangered piping plovers to nest. Read the full story by Chicago Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-montrose-beach
Saturday was the first day of sturgeon season on Black Lake in Michigan’s Cheboygan and Presque Isle Counties. High interest and a low quota meant the season didn’t even last until noon on opening day. Read the full story by WLNS-TV – Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210210-sturgeon
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http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/Upcoming-NOAA-2020-Climate-Normals
The deadline for applying for grants of up to $100,000 to promote regional and value-added food systems is March 18.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2021/02/10/michigan-food-hubs-food-systems-get-grant-opportunity/
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected another attempt by opponents to shut down construction work on Enbridge Energy’s replacement for its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.
In an order filed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said tribal and environmental groups that filed for an injunction in late December to suspend construction failed to prove any permanent harm would result from allowing the work to proceed or that they’re likely to win on their broader legal arguments.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/02/ap-judge-blocks-shut-down-line-3-construction/
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A project at Lake Superior State University received $250,000 from the United States Forest Service to install landscaping reducing the pollution flowing into the St. Marys River, as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Read and view the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-green-landscaping-water-quality
A mild December and January left the waters of Lake Michigan, near South Haven, mainly open and free of ice. But, over the last two weeks, temperatures fell and ice finally began to take shape along Southwest Michigan’s shoreline. Read the full story by MLive.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-shoreline-ice
Hamilton’s cold-water swimmers cavort among lake ice cubes in regular bathing suits — and to be fair, usually gloves and hats — and swim into the wintery swells for five to 15 minutes at a time. Fans of a prolonged winter dip argue the health benefits outweigh the extremity-numbing pain. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-cold-water
A project at Lake Superior State University received $250,000 from the United States Forest Service to install landscaping reducing the pollution flowing into the St. Marys River, as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Read and view the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-green-landscaping-water-quality
At issue is Fisheries Order 243.21. Michigan Fish Producers Association sued the Michigan DNR in federal court this month alleging that the order will make commercial fishing unprofitable and asking for a preliminary injunction that would allow Michigan’s 13 commercial fishing operations back on the water under the rules that governed 2020. Read the full story by GreatLakesNow.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-commercial-fishing-michigan
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have signed a $16 million agreement to remediate contaminated sediment in two backwater ponds surrounded by shallow marsh wetlands in Duluth. The project will improve access to the Duluth-Superior Harbor, a vital site for Minnesota’s economy. Read the full story by BusinessNorth.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-area-of-concern-pollution
A federal appellate court judge has denied a motion to stop construction of Enbridge’s controversial Line 3 replacement, the second court ruling against pipeline opponents in the past week. Read the full story by Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-enbridge-line-3
Michigan is a microcosm of the country in terms of our partisan split and difficulty interacting with those who have different viewpoints. But, there is a great exception to this divisiveness, and that’s our unity around support for the Great Lakes and clean water. Can and should President Biden utilize his interest in rebuilding civility, democracy and bipartisanship to advance clean water, equity and Great Lakes protection? Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-rebuilding-water-great-lakes
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently released a report documenting efforts and investments along the Great Lakes. The two-year report highlighted partnerships and achievements, including resiliency improvements, source water protection and accelerating restoration initiatives in communities that have been historically and disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution. Read the full story by WWTI – TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210209-restoration-plan
High school and community groups will help implement a $250,000 project to prevent pollution from flowing into the river from a new water research center to be built on contaminated soils at Lake Superior State University.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2021/02/09/university-gives-st-marys-river-clean-green-boost/
Detroit’s Michelle Martinez is acutely aware of the patience needed when your profession is advocating for environmental justice, the fair and meaningful involvement of all people related to environmental laws and policies.
Martinez is acting executive director and statewide coordinator for the grassroots Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition.
It was 1994, almost three decades ago, that President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898 putting the federal spotlight on environmental justice.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/02/detroit-advocate-hopeful-environmental-justice-progress-decades-inertia/
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NCEI News Feed
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In the Wisconsin Sea Grant online newsroom, we recently introduced four new members of the Advisory Council. Council members help shape Sea Grant’s future, enabling it to better serve the people of Wisconsin.
Now, here on our blog, we’d like to give people a chance to get to know those four newcomers better through Q & As. We begin with Deb DeLuca, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority.
Keep following the blog for upcoming installments with the other three new members: Madelyn Leopold, Becky Sapper and Lori Tate.
Deb DeLuca (submitted photo).
Do you have a favorite spot in the Great Lakes, or favorite natural area?
As a Lake Superior community resident, I spend a lot of free time (as well as work time) within view of, or on the shores of, Lake Superior. I love disappearing along Lake Superior’s North Shore, including those areas around Minnesota state parks, most often Tettegouche, Temperance River and Cascade River.
Along the South Shore, Pictured Rocks National Seashore and Porcupine State Park (in Michigan) are amazing, as are the Bayfield Peninsula and the Apostle Islands.
I adore any bike route, or hiking or Nordic ski trail, that includes Lake Superior views–especially when you turn a corner or descend a hill and the lake is suddenly spread out before you in all its glory–regardless of weather or season.
What drew you to say “yes” to serving on the Advisory Council?
My “yes” answer was driven by two trains of thought. First, I am not only a Wisconsin native, I am also a proud University of Wisconsin graduate. I earned my master’s degree through the land resources program at (what is now) the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. My research focused on the occurrence of pesticide degradation products in groundwater contaminated by the parent product, and the implications for health-risk-based standards for those pesticides.
My home department was the water chemistry department, whose building was located near the Memorial Union overlooking Lake Mendota. I was very aware of the Sea Grant program while I was in graduate school. One of our fantastic water chemistry professors, and a huge personality, Anders Andren, was Sea Grant director at the time.
Fast-forward many years: my son recently graduated from UW-Madison, and my father is still a UW emeritus professor. Serving on the Advisory Council keeps me close to my Wisconsin and UW roots and lets me return service to the University of Wisconsin System.
Secondly, I appreciate Wisconsin Sea Grant’s mission to promote “the sustainable use of Great Lakes resources” and its vision, which is “thriving coastal ecosystems and communities.” Thriving communities must thrive on ecosystem, societal and economic bases, and realistic solutions must balance the intersection of these three realms.
Great Lakes shipping plays an important role in the state and regional economy, yet it is relatively invisible, especially to non-waterfront communities. I am proud to represent the interests of shipping and waterborne commerce on the Advisory Council.
Is there a special aspect of Sea Grant’s work or mission that speaks to you the most?
There are many aspects that appeal to me. Working waterfronts and resilient coastal communities are key to all of us who live in towns and cities on the Great Lakes and love Great Lakes resources.
Resiliency will only become increasingly important with climate change. The aquatic invasive species focus is also important in my line of work: as responsible stewards of the Great Lakes, we must be aware and realistic about associated risks and set policy that is effective and practical.
Where would you like to see Sea Grant headed in the near future?
As an incoming member of the Advisory Committee, I think it is important to first engage and listen before articulating or identifying a direction for the organization.
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Illinois officials are working to improve the public image of invasive Asian carp, promoting the fish as a healthy, delicious, organic, and sustainable food source. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-carp-makeover
A binational bird conservation research effort is using their data to identify the most important coastal areas in the Great Lakes to protect and restore, including Chequamegon Bay, Green Bay, Saginaw Bay and Sandusky Bay. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-binational-bird-research
Freshwater is the most precious natural resource on Earth, according to a soil biophysicist researcher from Michigan State University who doesn’t believe current water regulatory policies in the United States, Canada, and around the world will solve humanity’s growing competition for it. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-conserving-freshwater
Wildlife researchers and scientists have been using herring gulls for the past 50 years to better understand how the Great Lakes are changing over time. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-herring-gulls
Wildlife researchers and scientists have been using herring gulls for the past 50 years to better understand how the Great Lakes are changing over time. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-herring-gulls
Despite strong congressional and governmental support, the Port of Oswego on the shores of Lake Ontario in New York, will once again receive nothing toward the repair of the deteriorating 140-year-old breakwall protecting the Oswego harbor. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-breakwall-repairs
The Dam Safety Task Force, created after the May 2020 failures of the Edenville and Sanford dams in mid-Michigan, are requesting revisions to “soften” some of the language in the final dam safety report. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-dam-safety
An unexpected flurry of sailing songs called sea shanties have been making the round on social media and are sure to brighten up bleak winter days on the shores of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-sea-shanties
Northern Michigan conservation nonprofit Huron Pines became the new owners of a 145-acre parcel of Lake Huron property that is slated to become an Alabaster Township park in the coming years. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-lake-huron-park
A feasibility study this spring at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House could lead to a more natural restoration of the shoreline of the historic estate on Lake St. Clair in southern Michigan. Read the full story by C and G Newspapers.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-shoreline-improvements
St. Clair County in southern Michigan is making emergency funding available to its coastal communities impacted by ongoing flooding. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210208-flooding-emergency
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue
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/2021/02/epa-nominee-collaboration-senate-confirmation-hearing/
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — The Clinton River, which runs through parts of Macomb County, is one of three southeastern Michigan rivers expected to be studied as part of an effort to improve water quality and wastewater treatment in the region.
The monitoring is part of the Great Lakes Water Authority’s Regional River Water Quality Monitoring Program, according to the Macomb County Public Works office.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/02/ap-program-study-clinton-river-water-quality/
