Three years after an emergency caribou airlift to isolated islands on Lake Superior, there are still concerns about the future of the world’s southernmost caribou herd. Read the full story by CBC.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210104-superior-caribou
The S.S. Badger, a coal-fired ferry that carries people and cars across Lake Michigan between Michigan and Wisconsin, has been sold. Read the full story by the Wisconsin State Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210104-ss-badger
With help from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources acquired Chinook salmon eggs to be used to stock Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210104-salmon-stocking
The Rouse Simmons, also known as the “Christmas Tree Ship”, disappeared one cold November day. It is now a shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Michigan just off Rawley point in Wisconsin, about 160 feet underwater, after many years as a mysterious disappearance. Read the full story by WBND-TV – South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210104-christmas-ship
Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit Public Television.
If you gaze off to the east from Detroit, Grosse Pointe or Downriver, chances are you will see bright lights adrift in the night sky.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/great-lakes-moment-leamington-greenhouses-lights/
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Green Bay, WI
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Winter ushers in activities such as sledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, skiing—and dogsledding.
The post Winter brings the return of dogsledding first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2021/01/04/winter-brings-the-return-of-dogsledding/
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This is part of a series in which the Great Lakes Now staff looks back on 2020.
When I look back at my 2020 Great Lakes Now reporting, three themes jump off the page – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, COVID-19 and climate change.
In her 2018 election campaign Whitmer articulated an extensive water and environment agenda and 2020 was the year she started to make progress on it.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/01/2020-review-climate-change-covid-19-michigan-governor/
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As 2020 winds down, we asked staff members at Wisconsin Sea Grant what their favorite project was this year. Although work was a bit more challenging than usual due to our altered work circumstances, everyone managed to stay productive, and even find fulfillment.
In our last post in this series, Social Science Outreach Specialist Deidre Peroff describes her favorite project of 2020, which is the Wild Rice (Manoomin) Education and Outreach Toolkit for Lake Superior Audiences project. Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the project is in its final stages.
“The goal is to raise awareness about Manoomin, its cultural and regional significance, its ecological function and importance, and to share information about the current threats to wild rice that may impact its resilience and future,” said Peroff. “Along with two Ph.D. students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Jimmy Camacho and Sarah Dance), we also worked closely with indigenous and nonindigenous partners in the region to develop educational resources to share with broad audiences to raise awareness of Manoomin and to support parallel efforts to protect and restore it for future generations.”
Part of one of the graphics developed for the project is below. We can’t wait to see the finalized versions!
Thank you for reading this series. We wish you the best in 2021.
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Blog – Wisconsin Sea Grant
https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/blog/sea-grant-staff-project-faves-deidre-peroff/
This is part of a series in which the Great Lakes Now staff looks back on 2020.
A frequent theme of my GLN articles – and others’ – this year was the Crazy-19 virus. For me, its appearance in print ranged from news about charter captains not fishing and non-resident fishing and hunting license sales suspended to parks, monuments, Lake Erie businesses shut down and events cancelled, including The Biggest Week in American Birding.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/2020-really-sucked-next-i-dont-know/
Fertilizer runoff from seasonal heavy rainfall on Midwestern farms is traveling down the Mississippi River and creating a “hypoxic zone,” or low oxygen zone in the Gulf of Mexico, a recent study by Iowa State University scientists warns.
The post Midwestern farms suffocating Gulf of Mexico ecosystems first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/12/31/midwestern-farms-suffocating-gulf-of-mexico-ecosystems/
As 2020 winds down, we asked staff members at Wisconsin Sea Grant what their favorite project was this year. Although work was a bit more challenging than usual due to our altered work circumstances, everyone managed to stay productive, and even find fulfillment.
Tim Campbell. Image credit: Wisconsin Sea Grant
In our second-to-last post in this series, Tim Campbell, our aquatic invasive species outreach specialist, chose a project that hugged the timeline border between 2019 and 2020. His two-minute Eat Wisconsin Fish video was produced in 2019 but posted in 2020. Helping Campbell put it together were Titus Seilheimer with Wisconsin Sea Grant and Bret Shaw with University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension and the Life Sciences Communication Department.
Campbell said, “It was fun to get to pretend I was some sort of cooking personality for the day, and it was nice to step outside of my aquatic invasive species world. If I weren’t helping people clean off their boats or finding new homes for their pets, helping them eat more Wisconsin fish would definitely be an enjoyable way to spend my time!”
Campbell also chose a runner-up favorite project. This one hugs the timeline border, too – although it’s the 2020-2021 border. He finished a year-long process of getting a paper on the potential invasion pathway of Buddhist life release accepted in the Management of Biological Invasions.
“We submitted the paper in February, revised and resubmitted in August, and found out at the beginning of December that it was accepted. I’m looking forward to being able to share that in 2021,” Campbell said.
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Blog – Wisconsin Sea Grant
https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/blog/sea-grant-staff-project-faves-tim-campbell/
The next River Talk will take place via Zoom at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13. Kelly Beaster and Reed Schwarting with the Lake Superior Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Superior will present, “Coastal wetlands: Dynamic ecosystems of Lake Superior.”
Kelly Beaster in the field. Image credit: Lake Superior Research Institute
Reed Schwarting. Image credit: Lake Superior Research Institute
Beaster and Schwarting have spent the past five years monitoring the health of local wetlands along Lake Superior, including those in the St. Louis River Estuary. Their talk will describe the function of coastal wetlands and how they change over time. They will focus on vegetation, covering the more common plant communities and some of their unique species as well as how wetlands have adapted to the short-term and long-term flux of water levels in the Great Lakes.
Here is the Zoom link and info:
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91446157971?pwd=czhnVGxuMTJNWlZveTllanFCVkRsUT09
Meeting ID: 914 4615 7971
Passcode: 163792
The talk will last an hour and will include time for Q&A. The talks will be recorded and posted afterward on the Reserve’s Facebook page. A summary will also be posted on Wisconsin Sea Grant’s blog.
Other River Talks will be held on Feb. 10, March 3, April 14 and May 12. The March talk will be held in conjunction with the St. Louis River Summit. For more information, visit the River Talks page: go.wisc.edu/4uz720.
River Talks are sponsored by The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Wisconsin Sea Grant Program.
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This is part of a series in which the Great Lakes Now staff looks back on 2020.
At this time last year, this humble news director made big claims regarding making a visit to Lake Ontario to complete the full list of “Great Lakes I’ve visited.”
Unfortunately, Lake Ontario remains an achievement I have yet to collect.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/lake-ontario-big-catch-escapes-again/
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The Sault Ste. Marie Commercial District, settled in 1668 by European immigrants but occupied by Native Americans thousands of years earlier, is worthy of recognition for its commercial history, ethnic culture and architecture, according to the National Park Service.
The post Sault Ste. Marie Commercial District joins National Register of Historic Places first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/12/30/sault-ste-marie-commercial-district-joins-national-register-of-historic-places/
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Great Lakes Now is hosting a watch party for our December episode on Dec. 29 at 7:15 p.m. ET. Get more information at the event page here.
As the year comes to an end, one question undoubtedly still plagues the minds of people everywhere: which Great Lake am I?
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/great-lakes-quiz-which-lake-are-you/
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By Rebecca Williams, 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/2020/12/10-years-after-oil-spill-kalamazoo-river-michigan/
The Trump administration overhauled the country’s widely criticized, 29-year-old framework to eliminate toxic lead from drinking water on Tuesday last week, but critics charge that the new rule gives utilities far more time than before to finally replace old, lead-contaminated pipes.
The new rules come six years after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis highlighted ongoing, dangerous exposure of children and others in the city to the neurotoxin in drinking water, and the failures of officials on all levels to adequately protect local families at the time.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/ap-critics-epa-lead-tainted-water/
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Sharon Moen. Image credit: Marie Zhuikov, Wisconsin Sea Grant
As 2020 winds down, we asked staff members at Wisconsin Sea Grant what their favorite project was this year. Although work was a bit more challenging than usual due to our altered work circumstances, everyone managed to stay productive, and even find fulfillment. Although Sharon Moen, our Eat Wisconsin Fish outreach specialist, hasn’t been working here that long, she wanted to contribute to this blog series.
Sharon said, “I dissected the Eat Wisconsin Fish initiative soon after I was hired to manage it in November. Laying the innards out on the metaphorical table and studying their functions informed strategies for working with commercial fishers, fish farmers and the public in 2021. Eat Wisconsin Fish activities support food security, economic and environmental health, and the overall well-being of the people of Wisconsin.”
To learn more about the initiative and Sharon’s work, visit https://eatwisconsinfish.org/.
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Blog – Wisconsin Sea Grant
https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/blog/sea-grant-staff-project-faves-sharon-moen/
This is part of a series in which the Great Lakes Now staff looks back on 2020.
Besides the fact it’s almost over… one great thing about 2020 for me was joining the Great Lakes Now team.
The pandemic affected us all in many ways, and it often took everything we could muster deep inside to push through.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/new-team-whats-good-about-2020/
This is part of a series in which the Great Lakes Now staff looks back on 2020.
In any effort to sum up the year that was 2020, one word is unavoidable: poop.
Don’t you agree?
At Great Lakes Now, we’ve kept our finger on the pulse of poop news all year, because we care about our readers and viewers.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/12/on-the-pulse-ive-got-one-word-for-you-2020/
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