The Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven will host a presentation on women lighthouse keepers throughout Great Lakes history next month. Read the full story by WSJM-Benton Harbor, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250226-women-lighthouse-keepers
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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The emerald ash borer (EAB) has devastated ash trees across North America. But researchers in Ohio discovered something unexpected — some ash trees are surviving. These ‘lingering ash’ not only resist EAB but can even kill its larvae.
Scientists suspected genetic resistance and tested their theory by cloning and crossbreeding surviving trees.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/are-the-ash-trees-doomed/
The Winnebago Water Level Assessment Team provides a collaborative opportunity for stakeholder representatives and experts to develop realistic and achievable water level recommendations and related goals that reasonably balance the top priorities of multiple system users and the health of the lakes. Meeting details: Date: Feb. 19, 2025 Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am [...]
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Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
https://fwwa.org/2025/02/25/wwlat_2025_02_19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wwlat_2025_02_19
Just-announced staff cuts and hiring freezes from the Trump administration will jeopardize the ongoing success of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) decades-long battle against sea lamprey, according to officials. While states, provinces and U.S. and Canadian tribes are involved in the labor-intensive efforts, the USFWS performs most of the in-stream treatments in the U.S.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/lake-trout-recovery-in-superior-sign-of-lamprey-removal-success/
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Get ready for a season of boating on the Fox River! This year, we open the northern end of the system on May 17, 2025 with DePere and Little Kaukauna open daily. All other locks will be open weekends from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Some changes for those of you who regularly boat through the locks:
This year, a day pass for the locks will be $15 and a season pass will be $150. The only way to purchase passes is online at this link: https://foxlocks.org/product-category/passes/ This is the first time the price for passes has increased in many years. The user fees for the locks help us maintain the historic system and ensure the locks continue to be in working order.
Blog – Fox Locks
https://foxlocks.org/blog/2025-navigational-season-dates-times-announced/
If you hate offices and love the outdoors, we have the perfect job for you! Where else could you be part of living history than by working as a lock tender right on the beautiful Fox River this summer? Our lock tenders are the service representatives of the largest fully-restored, hand-operated lock system in the country. They get to share tidbits of the history of the system with boaters who are happy to be on the water and going through the locks.
Just as they operated when they were built in the 1800s and early 1900s, the locks work on gravity and lock tenders open the valves and the giant lock gates. It’s not hard, and it is extremely cool to know you are doing the same job that lock tenders before you did for the past 170 years.
Our maintenance team makes sure the locks are looking good and ready for customers! This might include maintaining the lock gears, taking care of the lawns and grounds around the locks, painting, maintaining portages, and making sure the locks look great.
All jobs are team oriented and flexible, so if you’re interested please apply at this link.
Blog – Fox Locks
https://foxlocks.org/blog/lock-tenders-maintenance-team-needed/
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Katie Thoresen, WXPR
This story was originally published by WXPR. WXPR is a community-licensed public radio station serving north central Wisconsin and adjacent areas of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Listen to their stories here.
Rhinelander has gotten about 37 inches of snow so far this year.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/where-is-the-heavy-wet-snow-this-winter/
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Kayte Marshall, Great Lakes Echo
In a world dominated by smartphones and screen time, the Department of Natural Resources aims to reconnect kids with Michigan’s great outdoors.
The DNR is funding Nature Awaits, a program dedicated to hosting outdoor learning sessions for fourth grade classes at state parks.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/state-program-brings-fourth-graders-to-state-parks/
Ready to roll up your sleeves and make a real impact? Registration is live for Northeast Wisconsin’s largest volunteer trash cleanup, and we’re calling on you to help protect our beautiful waterways. Let’s come together and transform our local environment—one cleanup at a time! Event Snapshot When: Saturday, [...]
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Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
https://fwwa.org/2025/02/24/fox-wolf-watershed-cleanup-2025-join-the-movement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-wolf-watershed-cleanup-2025-join-the-movement
Two friends walked across a frozen Lake Erie to Long Point, Ontario, in February 1977. Two more men made a similar crossing that month. Three others made the trek in reverse, ending in North East, Pennsylvania, in March 1978. No one is known to have walked across the lake at Erie since — for good reason. Read the full story by Erie-Times News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-frozen-erie
A Wisconsin Sea Grant-funded research project about the role fire historically played on Wisconsin and Minnesota points along Lake Superior is the topic of a new children’s book.
“Ishkode: A Story of Fire” was authored by research project managers Evan Larson and Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano with a forward by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It features illustrations by Moira Villiard and was published by Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing of Wisconsin. The story invites readers into a stand of ancient red pines where a grandmother red pine, who has witnessed centuries of connection between people, fire and the land, guides a young woman toward healing and renewal.
“The book is a celebration of hope, healing and lessons we can learn from the land,” said Larson, a professor in the department of environmental sciences and society and a dendrochronologist with the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. He said the book emerged from over a decade of collaboration among Great Lakes researchers and community members. “‘Ishkode: A Story of Fire’ intertwines Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge to share a story of the deep, long-term relationships among people, fire and pines—and the wider web of life in Great Lakes ecosystems, including blueberries,” Larson said.
“The Anishinaabe used fire for ceremonies, to promote plant growth, and to care of the land,” said Montano, a Red Cliff tribal member and a University of Minnesota graduate student who is managing the research project with Larson. “The intentional, controlled use of fire by people shapes fire history in the region. Our book brings these connections to light.”
Larson added, “Our intent was to share the lessons we learned through this work, not just scientists and managers, but also children. When we first started talking about creating this book, I had a vision in my mind’s eye of a grandmother or parent reading to a child, and in that way, starting to rekindle the stories around fire that have been shared for generations. This is one way we can help rebuild a positive relationship with fire as a society – from the ground up with our children, creating opportunities for generations to come to recognize fire as an important part of Great Lakes landscapes and cultures.”
More information about the Ishkode project can be found here. “Ishkode: A Story of Fire” is available in hard cover for $17.95 from Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing.
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https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/sea-grant-research-project-inspires-childrens-book/
Tiny Township, Ontario, is planning to enter into another year of calls for submissions for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, with this year pertaining to framework around a shoreline alteration bylaw amendment for the township’s dynamic beaches. Read the full story by Midland Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-tinybeach-greatlakesinitiative
Like other parts of the country, the Great Lakes region is standing up and taking notice of the rapid-fire actions that the Trump Administration has been taking. The latest attention-grabber is President Trump’s decision to fast-track the controversial Line 5 pipeline. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-greatlakes-thingsmovingfast
Sea lamprey nearly destroyed fishing in the Great Lakes. The new 90-minute film, The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery, tells the story of those who tackled the mystery of why lake trout, one of the most prized fish in the Great Lakes, nearly vanished. Read the full story by The Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-thefishthief-sealamprey-impacts-greatlakes-whitefish
Ice fishing has been good this season, but anglers on the ice targeting walleye or other fish may unexpectedly find themselves with a lake sturgeon on the line. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers that regulations on the targeting and harvest of lake sturgeon are in effect and that on most waters of the state, fishing for lake sturgeon is prohibited and any lake sturgeon caught must be released immediately. Read the full story by The Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-sturegon-protect-ice-fishing
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission has announced the opening of the bidding process for contractors to carry out a major restoration and maintenance project on the U.S. Brig Niagara. The historic vessel, housed in Erie, Pennsylvania, and best known for its pivotal role in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, is preparing for its second shipyard visit in recent years. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-phmc-brig-niagara-shipyard
The city of Lockport, Illinois, reiterated its commitment to staying on its well water system, even as neighboring Illinois cities Joliet, Romeoville and Crest Hill take steps towards a transition to Lake Michigan water. Read the full story by the Shaw Local.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-lockport-well-water-system
The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in Chicago included a half dozen attorneys who bring enforcement cases against polluters and staff who mobilize rapidly to respond to hazardous spills and environmental disasters. The cuts may inhibit the EPA’s ability to protect drinking water, safeguard air quality and clean up toxic sites in Michigan, part of a five-state region headquartered in Illinois. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-trump-epa-workers
With the weather outside frigid, a fishing enthusiast wouldn’t necessarily be thinking about the walleye run just yet unless you’re the proprietor of Maumee Tackle — Fishing, Kayak, and Shooting Outfitters in Maumee, Ohio. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-fishermen-ice-walleyerun-soon
The Winnebago, Wisconsin, sturgeon spearing season was closed with bang when two more fish were harvested weighing in at over 100 pounds each. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250224-sturgeonspearing-sunday
A Michigan appeals court has ruled that Enbridge Energy’s plans to build a tunnel around an aging pipeline that runs beneath a Great Lakes channel can continue. Read the full story by WILX – Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-michigan-court-line-5
Nearly five years after the final scoop of contaminated sediment was taken from the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin, the river is improving, but it’s still not safe for fishing. And it won’t be for quite some time. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-fox-river-pcb
Companies across the Great Lakes region have vowed to find a use for the entirety of each fish they catch, from fertilizer to fish skin leather. Read the full story by Reasons to be Cheerful.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-fish-waste
Ice fishermen around Northeast Ohio rejoiced earlier this week as the wind chill plummeted and ice thickened on ponds and small lakes all around the area. While the safe ice will support a few days of hard water fishing, it may not last. Read the full story by the Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-ice-fishing
The data that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) produces contributes to Great Lakes recreation, shipping navigation, coastal management, and a variety of other research, all of which may be at risk with impending cuts to NOAA. Read the full story by the Wisconsin Examiner.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-noaa-funding
Massive staffing cuts and freezes made by the Trump administration could have serious consequences in the fight against invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-lamprey-funding
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reminding anglers that lake sturgeon are protected, cannot be targeted while ice fishing, and must be released as quickly as possible if caught by mistake. Read the full story by the Lansing State Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-sturgeon-protections
Nonprofit managers worry that a large federal grant to help Michigan farm and forest owners preserve their lands may fall victim to a vast Trump administration funding freeze that’s being litigated in federal court. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-forest-farm-funding
Scores of water mains throughout Chicago are too close to sewer lines, according to a new report that cautions the potential risks to public health could cost taxpayers millions of dollars to fix. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-chicago-water-pipes
An interview with the founder of the annual Chequamegon Kite Fest in Ashland, Wisconsin, sheds light on winter kite flying and its impact on the community. Read the full interview by Lake Superior Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250221-winter-kites
Carl Gawboy, a celebrated Minnesota artist and Ojibwe scholar of Finnish and Bois Forte Anishinaabe descent, has dedicated his life to preserving and sharing the stories of his people. In his book, Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History, Gawboy combines his prolific artistic talent, family stories, and cultural research to shed light on a largely overlooked chapter of history.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/a-different-perspective-on-the-fur-trade/
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal 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/2025/02/trump-firings-hit-great-lakes-sea-lamprey-program-michigan-forestry/
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal 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/2025/02/trump-firings-hit-great-lakes-sea-lamprey-program-michigan-forestry/
By Izzy Ross and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan, and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/will-jd-vance-save-the-great-lakes-from-trump/
It’s official: Emma Hauser, Wisconsin Sea Grant’s aquaculture outreach and extension specialist, is extraordinary.
Emma Hauser, aquaculture outreach extraordinaire, helps two kids with a fish dissection.
Hauser, who works at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility, was recently voted Extension/Outreach Extraordinaire by the Aquaculture Information Exchange community. The award celebrates aquaculture professionals who have gone above and beyond to serve those in the industry.
“I love my job, and I learn every day, so I’m very honored and proud to be in this position,” Hauser said at a virtual ceremony announcing the winners.
The award comes as no surprise to those who have worked with Hauser and witnessed her skill and enthusiasm for engaging preschoolers through adults about aquaculture.
“Emma has done an outstanding job with promoting and advancing aquaculture through outreach and extension in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest,” said Tyler Firkus, facilities operation manager at NADF, who nominated her for the honor.
In addition to leading tours of NADF and discussing best practices with fish farmers, Hauser runs a program bringing aquaculture to classrooms across Wisconsin. She also created a guidebook and companion video series about raising walleye for commercial production, worked on a first-of-its-kind aquaculture coloring and sticker book for kids, and is the lead organizer of the annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference.
“Her efforts play a large role in establishing a robust workforce development program in the region and ensures aquaculture is well represented in a wide variety of formats for all interested audiences,” said Firkus.
The Aquaculture Information Exchange hosted the awards to celebrate the first anniversary of the online community. Funded by NOAA and USDA and managed by Virginia Sea Grant, the Exchange is a social networking platform that supports communication and collaboration among aquaculture professionals and features discussion boards, training videos, event and job listings, and networking opportunities.
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Carrie Klein, Inside Climate News
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.
Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is one step closer to becoming the first nuclear power plant in the United States to reopen.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/michigan-environmental-impact-statement-palisades-nuclear-plant-restart/
By Isabelle Tavares, Planet Detroit
This article was republished with permission from Planet Detroit. Sign up for Planet Detroit’s weekly newsletter here.
Manuel Nolasco stood in frigid air outside his flooded Southwest Detroit home early Tuesday, chipping away at thick ice chunks that had frozen his car wheels in place.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/southwest-detroit-homes-flooded-families-displaced-by-water-main-rupture/
A UNITING EFFORT Improving water quality one relationship at a time Steve demonstrates how to monitor for invasive species at an Adopt-a-Launch site. They describe themselves as “three old guys who love to kayak,” but they’re on a mission to see the East River become a paddling destination that [...]
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Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
https://fwwa.org/2025/02/19/watershed-moments-uniting-effort/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watershed-moments-uniting-effort
Two of the biggest threats to the Great Lakes region’s $7 billion fishery — invasive carp and sea lampreys — will get worse if the Trump Administration’s federal cuts and hiring freezes are not done more methodically, officials said Monday. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-funding-hiring-impacts
Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. Given that the Great Lakes — and their aquatic life — straddle both sides of the border, having American scientists suddenly barred from meetings has had deep impacts. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-binational-coordination
U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin introduced the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2025 to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through 2031 and increase the program’s annual authorized funding levels from $475 million to $500 million. Read the full story by Record & Clarion.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-great-lakes-bill
Rolling back clean water protection, gutting agencies and defunding science, research and monitoring is a non-starter for the Great Lakes region, said the director of the Healing Our Waters coalition in a recent interview. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-great-lakes-priorities
The patchwork of research that’s been done on microplastics in the Great Lakes has revealed gaps that need to be filled, a scientific panel reporting to the U.S. and Canadian governments stated in a recent webinar. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-microplastics-research
A $110,000 grant will go toward a training program in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District that helps prepare students for the maritime and aviation industries. The grant, approved by the Port of Cleveland, will be given to Argonaut, the nonprofit that provides the hands-on training at Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-maritime-training-grant
In 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued permits to Canadian energy company Enbridge to reroute its Line 5 pipeline, prompting a lawsuit from the Bad River Band. The tribe is asking an Ashland County judge to stay the Wisconsin DNR’s environmental impact statement for the reroute proposal and reverse state construction permits. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20250219-pipeline-litigation
