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According to Hamilton (Ontario) Region Public Health, the beaches at Binbrook Conservation Area and Valens Conservation Area tested unsafe for swimming as of Aug. 4 at 11 a.m. According to public health guidelines from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, water is considered unsafe for swimming when one sample contains 400 or more E. coli bacteria per 100 millilitres. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.

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Though the calendar still says it’s summertime, fall migration already has begun for some species of migratory birds, including the Great Lakes piping plover. Just this week the first juvenile piping plover from summer 2023′s fledglings was spotted on Sanibel Island, Florida. Read the full story by MLive.

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Empire Bluff Trail, known for knockout views of Lake Michigan and the park’s stunning shoreline, was the focus of a recent improvement project aimed at reducing erosion and environmental impact. The work included rerouting the trail around a steep hill with log steps that had become a harder climb due to high foot traffic in recent years. Read the full story by MLive.

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By Margaret Ellis – Yotsi’nahkwa’talihahte (Wild Rose), Oneida Nation
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay First Nations Graduate Assistant, Wisconsin Sea Grant

Wequiock Creek Natural Area is one of six places managed by the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay (UWGB). Other areas include the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum and Point au Sable.

In the early stages of the management and restoration of the Wequiock Creek Natural Area, David Overstreet was hired to work with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to identify interested parties to the land and to conduct an archaeological dig. Overstreet is a consulting archaeologist for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and has been doing cultural digs such as this one for many years. The area is the original homeland to many First Nations: Menominee Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Ho-Chunk Nation, Potowatomi and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. At this point, UWGB knew it had to bring the Indigenous voice back to the lands to ensure any restoration efforts incorporated its original inhabitants.

Consulting Archaeologist David Overstreet, works with Menominee youths on Point au Sable in Green Bay. Image credit: Margaret Ellis

One such effort to bring the voice back is to connect Indigenous youth to the area. Overstreet and Bobbie Webster, the natural areas ecologist from the UWGB Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, hosted an archeological dig at Point au Sable this spring. The Point au Sable area is an important site to the Menominee Nation as it is the ancestral and ceded territories of the Menominee Nation. There are references in surveyor notes from early 1800 to Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Potawatomi and others.

Point au Sable was always a popular spot. We also know Chief Lamotte had a residence at Bay Settlement when he signed the Menominee Treaty of 1831. The goal of the dig was to find any artifacts that may be from Menominee ancestors so they can be analyzed and protected from any further restoration efforts and movement of lands. The dig was also a means of connecting Menominee youth with their original homelands and historical items.

This was the second year that Overstreet organized the dig with Menominee Indian High School students at the tip of Point au Sable, about a mile walk out into the bay of Green Bay. The students were led by Christine Fossen-Rades, a science educator at the Menominee Indian High School. After a quick visit to Wequiock Falls, the students met at Point au Sable.

Overstreet and his son, Ryan, marked off archaeological sites prior to the dig so that once everyone arrived, the students could just grab their shovels and sifters and trek the mile to the dig site. They were asked to dig holes to a certain depth or until they hit darker soil. They then used shaker boxes made of screen mesh to sift the soil and sand. The items they were looking for included important artifacts such as cracked rocks, bones, coal and any other objects that may have come from the original inhabitants.  Overstreet educated them in the process of bagging items of interest and labeling them so he could bring them to his lab for analysis. The Menominee youth and Tribe are a big part of this process and benefit from any research and lab results.

Menominee Indian High School students helped uncover the past on Point au Sable in Green Bay. Image credit: Margaret Ellis.

My favorite part about this activity was seeing the elements of past, present and future — Menominee students working on lands that belonged to their ancestors in an effort to support the preservation of their culture while using modern-day science. The activity represented an Indigenous worldview of continuity and the circular nature of our being. Experiencing this connection to the past felt like coming full circle and I’m glad to have been involved in it.

This dig is part of an ongoing effort to bring Indigenous voices and presence to UWGB natural areas. As an Indigenous person and UWGB student, I appreciate the movement toward a more inclusive as authentic relationship between UWGB, its natural areas, and the Indigenous Nations that once called them home.

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Diesel spill on Lake Michigan triggers multi-agency response

By Katheryne Friske, Michigan Radio

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Chicago Mayor Receives Blueprint for ’Green New Deal’ to Address Environmental Justice — Inside Climate News

Advocates deliver Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson a local “Green New Deal” proposal that aims to tackle energy affordability, clean energy job opportunities, and environmental justice curricula in schools.

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PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of widespread man-made chemicals that don’t break down in the environment or the human body and have been flagged as a major contaminant in sources of water across the country.

Keep up with PFAS-related developments in the Great Lakes area.

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In Charlevoix, Michigan, United States Geological Survey scientists will start getting information from an autonomous vessel called Saildrone in the Great Lakes. This bright orange solar and wind-powered boat was launched last week in Lake Michigan to understand fish stocks and allow scientists to compare its data to those from conventional research vessels. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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For the first time in the state of Wisconsin, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released captive-reared Great Lakes piping plovers. Four 28-day-old chicks that had been rescued as eggs from an abandoned nest in the Apostle Islands were released at the Cat Island Restoration Site in Lower Green Bay, Wisconsin. Read the full story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.

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A swimmer’s itch outbreak has been detected in Lake Superior in areas of Whitefish Bay and Waishkey Bay in Chippewa County, Michigan. Health officials recommend beachgoers stay out of the water under certain weather conditions to lessen their risk of contracting the infection. Read the full story by MLive.

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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources researchers are attempting to learn how a freshwater algae, known as didymo or ‘rock snot’, impacts what various types of fish are eating in North Shore rivers and streams. The freshwater algae live in low nutrient, low-temperature environments and can form dense mats of brown slime that smother streambeds. Read and listen to the full story by WTIP – Grand Marais, MN.

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This spring, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) stocked Lake Michigan with one million chinook salmon, nearly 200,000 more fish than in 2022. As the population of salmon prey fish called alewife increases in Lake Michigan, the DNR is able to stock more salmon, ultimately leading to more fishing opportunities. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

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At University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Fresh Water Sciences, crew members and more than a dozen scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are preparing for a month-long trip across the Great Lakes aboard the largest vessel to navigate the Great Lakes. The samples collected will help scientists understand temperature profiles in the water as well as depth and provide insight into the food chain from. Read the full story by WISN-TV – Milwaukee, WI.

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In Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan, the Marquette Maritime Museum has sponsored a new buoy to make finding shipwrecks easier for the Great Lakes Scuba Divers and Lake Preservation Club. Anchoring this buoy to the lake bottom will help the D. Leuty shipwreck, the first to be marked by the club, and its artifacts stay intact. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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William Scriber, executive director and CEO of the Port of Oswego Authority (POA) was elected secretary of the American Great Lakes Ports Association last week. Scriber joined the POA in 2009 as logistics manager and has been the director since 2017. Under his leadership, the port set a record year in 2022 with shipping alone up over 300% compared to 2021. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.

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Lake Michigan Carferry announced on Tuesday that it will not operate the S.S. Badger for the remainder of the season after the ship’s ramp system was damaged last month. The Badger transports passengers from Ludington, Michigan to Manitowac, Wisconsin, and was scheduled to offer overnight sailings through August 6. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Ludington, MI.

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Members of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association say they have located a vessel in deep Lake Michigan waters but will wait to publicly identify the sunken ship until a later date. So far, the only information being released is the vessel is in the West Michigan portion of Lake Michigan in very deep waters, far offshore. Read the full story by MLive.

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Michigan tribes fight long odds to restore wild rice, their history

By Ashley Zhou, Bridge Michigan

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.

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Science Says What? Lessons learned from a deliberate dilbit spill

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.

On July 26, 2010, people living along Talmadge Creek in Marshall, Michigan awoke to a sharp, sickening smell.

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Homes along Lake Michigan in Indiana are facing encroaching water due to erosion and climate change. However, the solution to build hardened revetments is causing pushback from environmentalists.  Read the full story by the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier.

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The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community has been conducting a program of manoomin (wild rice) restoration for more than a decade as the amount of wild rice in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan has declined over the past century. This will be aided by the development of a collaborative wild rice stewardship plan. Read the full story by the Daily Mining Gazette.

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In Michigan, the annual State of the Lake address succinctly described the importance of Lake St. Clair to its residents with a review of various restoration projects, efforts to ensure water cleanliness and safety, the economic impact of the lake, and the results of the first-ever Lake St. Clair Coastal Study. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily.

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The Ontario government will invest $6 million to support 30 multi-year projects aimed at helping protect, conserve, and restore the Great Lakes. The project areas include the southeast shores of Lake Huron, Eastern Georgian Bay and Huron-Bruce and are aimed at reducing plastic litter, excess nutrients and road salt entering the waterways, and advancing climate resiliency. Read the full story by the Owen Sound Sun Times.

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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has posted a health advisory at Cleveland’s Edgewater Park following heavy rains that caused sewage and stormwater to overflow and be dumped into Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer

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The Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has confirmed the blue-green algae in a water sample collected on July 25. People are reminded to avoid water whenever a blue-green algae bloom is present and to wait two weeks after it has dissipated. Read the full story by the Chronical Journal.

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Sea Grant’s Sharon Moen won the 2023 Communications Service Award from the National Sea Grant Communicators Network in a virtual ceremony last week.

Moen has been a part of the Sea Grant community for 24 years, beginning as an editor for Minnesota Sea Grant and now serving as the food-fish outreach coordinator for Wisconsin Sea Grant. Throughout the years, her skills at conveying messages about the study, conservation and economic importance of the Great Lakes have been front and center.

“Science communications work can be terrifying, funny, riveting and maddening but it is certainly important,” Sharon Moen said. “I’m honored my colleagues recognized my terror and joy with this award. I continue to be inspired by the Sea Grant Network and the innovative ways its communicators are extending information to enhance the use and conservation of coastal, marine and Great Lakes resources.” 

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This award is presented every two years to an individual from one of Sea Grant’s 34 programs located in coastal states, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico. It recognizes creativity, vision and a commitment to the Sea Grant mission and goes to someone who has notched noteworthy accomplishments. In Moen’s case that has been a lengthy list, including:

  • Publishing a book in 2015 that detailed the founding of the national Sea Grant program by Athelstan Spilhaus, a scientist, inventor and former university dean.
  • Taking on national leadership roles that improved the effectiveness of the overall program.
  • Leading a communication planning effort for an aquatic invasive species prevention campaign in the Great Lakes basin.
  • Preparing a Great Lakes research symposium report, and another about ballast water, coordinating work between U.S. and Canadian scientists and other international professionals.
  • Creating an award-winning podcast series focused on Lake Superior.

In selecting her for the award, one judge said, “Sharon has had a remarkable impact on state, regional and Sea Grant network communications throughout her career. Her ability to relay scientific information in a creative and engaging way has set a standard for science communication.”

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The U.S. House on Wednesday passed a bill directing completion of a new study of potential security shortfalls at the Soo Locks, as well as the supply chain and economic impacts of a potential failure at the Great Lakes shipping lock complex at Sault Ste. Marie. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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Officials of Port Milwaukee and The DeLong Co., Inc. recently celebrated the grand opening of the $40-million Agricultural Maritime Export Facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Read the full story by the High Plains Journal.

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On the 43rd Governor’s Fish Ohio Day on Thursday, July 20, legislators, natural resources administrators, tourism officials and the media flocked to Port Clinton, Ohio to pay homage to what many say is the greatest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Beacon.

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