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RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey has announced it will invest approximately $4.8 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to collect high-resolution geophysical data focused on areas with potential for critical mineral resources across multiple parts of the nation. 

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https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/usgs-invests-48-million-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-funding-five-airborne?utm_source=comms&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news

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2024 Election: State and Local Voters Consider Tax Increases for Water Protection

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; 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.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/election-state-and-local-voters-consider-tax-increases-for-water-protection/

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Spooky Lake Superior: The SS Kamloops

Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet is a new book by Geo Rutherford. Below is an adapted excerpt from her New York Times best seller, all about Lake Superior. Follow Geo on TikTok or Instagram for more content on spooky lakes.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/spooky-lake-superior-the-ss-kamloops/

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Following a significant funding announcement, the Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA) is set to launch several initiatives to improve the health of Lake Erie and the Detroit River Area of Concern. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241028-fundingboost-lakeerie-detroitriver-projects

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Ojibwe tribal officials are upset by a decision this month from the state’s Department of Natural Resources to approve a septage disposal site on their reservation in northern Wisconsin. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241028-wisconsin-dnr-septagedisposal-tribal-reservation

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A free lecture titled “West Coast National Marine Sanctuary Challenges and the Conservation Opportunities That Could Help” will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena, Michigan. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241028-conservationlecture-greatlakes-maritime-heritage-center

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A stone structure found recently under Lake Michigan, believed to be 9,000 years old, has left most scientists and historians unclear of its origin. This archaeological wonder, which is said to resemble England’s Stonehenge, was discovered in 2007 and is still causing controversy. Read the full story by ECONews.  

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241028-lake-michigan-stonehedge

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RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey announced today it has awarded approximately $2.5 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for mine waste characterization and inventory projects across 25 states. 

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Wisconsin

https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/usgs-awards-25-million-state-geological-surveys-mine-waste-projects?utm_source=comms&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news

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By Gabriel S. Martinez Capital News Service An unusually busy fall fire season in Michigan has produced more than double the seasonal wildfires originally anticipated so far. About 100 prescribed burns are scheduled on both state and federal land for next year to help reduce damage from future wildfires. According to the state Department of […]

The post An uncommon wildfire season is exceeding averages  first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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Great Lakes Echo

http://greatlakesecho.org/2024/10/28/an-uncommon-wildfire-season-is-exceeding-averages/

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Join the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, partners, and volunteers this winter to monitor for chlorides in streams throughout the Fox-Wolf River Basin!

Road salt (sodium chloride) is everywhere during winter months. It keeps us safe on roads and sidewalks, but it can also pose a threat to fish, wildlife, habitats, and more. Overall it impacts both the environment as well as human health.

Fish and bugs that live in freshwater streams can’t survive in extra salty water. And many of us (more than 118 million Americans) depend on local streams for drinking water. Water treatment plants are not equipped to filter out the extra salt, so it can end up in your tap water and even corrode your pipes.

Please join us at one of our training November 14th at Noon or 6 p.m. at the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance. Click the button to fill out our sign-up form for the training event. A free Salt Watch kit will be provided to those who attend. Monitoring is easy and a great way to help your community!

You can use your kit any time you can safely approach a waterway. But it’s especially important to test salt levels around the time of events that cause those levels to change. Those times are:

  • Before a winter storm, to find out the “normal” level of salt in your stream
  • After salt has been applied to roads
  • After the first warm day or rainstorm following a snow or freeze
  • After the next rain event

We could use more volunteers throughout the basin. Monitoring efforts are best done on smaller waterbodies, streams, rivers, and more. Please reach out to Alyssa Reinke, Alyssa@fwwa.org with more questions, comments, or concerns.

FREE Salt Watch kit available from at the training thanks to the Izaak Walton League!

The training will cover monitoring process. However, for more information, check out this video explaining the monitoring process from the Izaak Walton League:

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Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance

https://fwwa.org/2024/10/28/join-fox-wolf-and-help-monitor-for-chloridessalt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=join-fox-wolf-and-help-monitor-for-chloridessalt

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Points North: The Biggest Buck That Maybe Never Was

By Max Howard

Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio.

 

A northern Michigan hunter named Mitch Rompola is sitting in a tree stand waiting.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/points-north-the-biggest-buck-that-maybe-never-was/

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A project to conserve land along the Milwaukee River was awarded nearly $20 million in federal funding Wednesday, part of a historic push by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to invest in conservation practices that mitigate climate change. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-milwaukee-river

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A Minnesota conservation group wants to focus on land protection and restoration near the St. Louis River as a part of a multi-state initiative known as the Greater Lakes Promise, an effort to improve water quality in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by MinnPost.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-st-louis-restoration

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Less than a month after agricultural groups sought to join a landmark case that could affect how western Lake Erie is managed, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has filed a motion to become a defendant too. The lawsuit targets the U.S. EPA for approving an Ohio EPA planning document under the Clean Water Act, which plaintiffs argue is weak and ineffective. Read the full story by The Blade.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-erie-case

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Soon, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources research center in Charlevoix, Michigan, will have a new and improved boat to help gather fish population data across the Great Lakes. After more than five decades of service, their old boat is outdated, and parts are hard to come by. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-dnr-boat

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In nationwide polls, climate change ranks near the bottom of voters’ list of concerns, but it is of concern to Wisconsin voters who fear it is not receiving the attention it deserves in the presidential race. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-climate-voters

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Presque Isle State Park near Erie, Pennsylvania, received about $3 million last year in combined federal and state money for an annual beach sand replenishment project. Ice-free Lake Erie waters over the winter contribute to erosion and the need for beach sand additions. Read the full story by the Erie Times-News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-beach-erosion

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Nearly half a century after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming the lives of 29 crew members, the National Museum of the Great Lakes in east Toledo, Ohio, will hold guided tours commemorating the sinking and honors those who died. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-fitzgerald-tours

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Approximately 15,000 Georgetown, Ontario, residents begin receiving their water from Lake Ontario the week of November 4. Construction recently finished on the infrastructure that will allow for a transfer from a groundwater source to treated lake-based water from Lake Ontario. Read the full story by Halton Hills Today.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20241025-lake-ontario-water

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Nibi Chronicles: Manoomin as medicine

“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction 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 the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/nibi-chronicles-manoomin-as-medicine/

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By Donté Smith Capital News Service In the rolling farmland of southern Michigan’s Hillsdale County, the Crescent Wind Farm towers over the landscape, generating renewable energy while stirring both hope and contention among residents. The wind farm, operated by Consumers Energy in Adams, Moscow and Wheatland townships, is part of the state’s growing push to meet […]

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http://greatlakesecho.org/2024/10/25/crescent-wind-farm-fuels-push-for-greener-michigan/

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At 1051 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking line of showers along a line from near Gillett to 12 miles south of Oshkosh, or along a line from 20 miles northeast of Shawano to 12 miles south of Oshkosh, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 30 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Manitowoc, Sturgeon Bay, Kewaunee, Bay Shore Park, Menasha, Kaukauna, Little Chute, Kimberly, Oconto, Chilton, Pulaski, Algoma, Brillion, Luxemburg, Denmark, Cleveland and Gillett.

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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI

https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.a6087c405ba02142b0614f8dd4f90ebc4cb75732.001.1.cap

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PFAS Roundup: Vice President Harris supports Michigan-led plan to provide medical care for military victims of PFAS

Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. Dan Kildee introduced The Veterans Exposed to Toxic PFAS Act in July of 2023. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris announced her support for the bill as a part of her presidential campaign. If passed, this would make it easier for veterans who were exposed to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) while serving to access medical benefits and disability. 

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/pfas-roundup-vice-president-harris-supports-michigan-led-plan-to-provide-medical-care-for-military-victims-of-pfas/

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Climate change isn’t a top issue in this election. Some Wisconsin voters say it should be.

By Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio

This article was republished here with permission from Wisconsin Public Radio.

Outside a September rally with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, Ashland business owner and Democrat Will Pipkin set up signs with a cavalcade of slogans, including “Another cat lady for democracy” and “Without a healthy climate, there’s no freedom.”

Pipkin said he’s backing Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz in the presidential race because they’re the most progressive choice, and he thinks they would continue President Joe Biden’s work on green initiatives and climate change.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/climate-change-isnt-a-top-issue-in-this-election-some-wisconsin-voters-say-it-should-be/

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