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By Keith Schneider, 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.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/u-s-movement-to-limit-cafo-pollution-emboldened-by-michigan-court-ruling/
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
Michigan’s new climate laws require utilities to transition to entirely “clean” electricity sources by 2040.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/michigan-aims-to-tackle-clean-energy-goals-in-upper-peninsula/
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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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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By Lester Graham, Michigan Public
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.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/cleaning-up-pollution-and-removing-crumbling-dams-help-to-restore-michigan-rivers/
The placid water of Rondeau Bay in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, is at risk of being exposed to the punishing and turbulent waves of Lake Erie. The barrier beach that divides the bodies of water is being eaten away by erosion. Read the full story by the CBC.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-beach-eroding
Two Michigan legislators have introduced bills that would limit sand mining and make it far more difficult to develop on critical sand dunes. The legislation is expected to be officially introduced in September. Read the full story by the Holland Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-sand-legislation
Opposition is growing over a proposal to redesignate the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as Wisconsin’s first national park. Local governments and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have come out against the bill, raising concerns about the proposal’s effects on the environment, tribal treaty rights, housing, and infrastructure. Read the full story by the Superior Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-apostle-islands
A cargo ship has run aground near Kahnawà:ke on Montreal’s South Shore after it experienced a mechanical failure. The unfortunate incident does not pose a threat to the environment and no injuries have been reported, but the ship is blocking cargo traffic. Read the full story by the CBC.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-ship-stuck
Dozens of historic shipwrecks are submerged in Lake Michigan within the bounds of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Exploring them just got easier: this month, crews installed buoys and mooring lines near 19 of the most popular shipwrecks. Read the full story by Smithsonian Magazine.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-shipwreck-buoys
Generators at dams built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were shut down decades ago. Michigan has been removing more of those obsolete dams in recent years, but dam removal is no easy task. Read the full story by Michigan Public.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-dam-removal
The impact of climate change on physical landscapes is the tip of an iceberg, and the psychological effects on individuals and communities are beginning to emerge. Stories from around the Great Lakes highlight the effects of climate change stress. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-climate-stress
A fourth-grade boy recently made a startling beachside discovery along Lake Superior: bones. Erosion is eating away at the shoreline of Lake Superior and has begun to encroach on graves at Scandia Cemetery in Duluth, Minnesota. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-cemetery-eroding
This month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation added a brand-new feature to the official “HuntFishNY” app called the “TACKLE BOX.” This feature provides anglers with one stop for waterbody-specific information on fishing regulations, stocking, fishing/boating access sites and more. Read the full story by the Observer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-huntfishny-app
A new wetland restoration project has been completed at Little Portage Wildlife Area in Ottawa County near Port Clinton, Ohio. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources project is meant to improve water quality while benefiting surrounding communities and revitalizing the area’s ecosystem. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-h2ohio-project-completed
Help is on its way for New York’s Finger Lakes to enhance water quality and combat harmful algae blooms. On Friday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced $42 million to protect and enhance water quality in the eastern Finger Lakes region. Read the full story by Finger Lakes Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240826-finger-lakes-funding
Heritage sailing on Lake Huron and a historic passenger ship returns to its former glory.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/old-boats-and-new-adventures/
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
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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Current watches, warnings, and advisories for Brown County (WIC009) WI
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By Mia Litzenberg In a weekly Good Grief Network session held on July 25, time and space were created for participants to reflect on their feelings of uncertainty in an unstable environment over Zoom. Trained facilitators kept time for each participant to speak while the other participants bore witness as listeners. The overarching rule was […]
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By Peter Blanchard, Mirror Indy
Mirror Indy is a part of Free Press Indiana, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to ensuring all Hoosiers have access to the news and information they need.
Despite concerns from environmentalists — and support from 23 city-county councilors — Mayor Joe Hogsett is so far declining to allocate funds in the 2025 city budget to acquire urban forests for conservation.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/advocates-urge-hogsett-to-save-indys-at-risk-urban-forests/
Original Story: WI DNR
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently announced it will award more than $6 million to local groups to protect and improve surface water.
Interested and eligible organizations are encouraged to apply for a surface water grant. A pre-application must be submitted by Sept. 15, 2024, to compete for a grant in November.
The DNR’s Surface Water Grants Program leverages money from the state conservation fund’s water resources account to help local communities accelerate water 
protection and restoration efforts across Wisconsin. The funding can support a wide range of locally driven projects that invest in watersheds and surface waters.
Activities eligible for funding include:
Have a project idea? Not sure where to start? The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance can help! From shoreline projects to boat wash stations to rain gardens, your project can help you and your local water quality. Reach out to one of our staff members and we can help you get started!
Eligible organizations include counties, municipalities, local government units, lake and sanitary districts, natural resource agencies, tribal governing bodies, colleges and school districts, lake associations, nonprofit conservation organizations, river and surface water management organizations and producer-led groups. Individuals are not eligible for grants (with a few exceptions) but may partner with an eligible organization willing to sponsor a project. Reach out to your local environmental grant specialist to confirm your organization’s eligibility.
The amount of funding available varies by project. For example, education projects are eligible for up to $5,000 in state support, while planning grants are available for up to $10,000, and larger management plan implementation grants can provide up to $200,000 per project. Grants operate on a reimbursement basis and require matching funds from 25% to 33% of the total project cost.
Submit a pre-application by Sept. 15. This will connect you to local assistance and ensure you are eligible to submit a final application by Nov. 15.
Pre-application forms can be found under the “Applying” tab on the DNR’s Surface Water Grants Program webpage. Right-click the link to Surface Water Grant 
Application Form 8700-284 and download or “save as” to create a copy of the form on your computer. Open the form from your local drive and fill out the sections labeled “pre-application.”
Email the form by Sept. 15 to DNRSurfaceWaterGrants@wisconsin.gov. The department will be in touch with more information following your submission.
Visit the DNR’s Surface Water Grants Program webpage for more information on applying for and managing a grant project.
The DNR Surface Water Grant Applicant Guide is a comprehensive user manual for the program. This document has been updated for the 2024-2025 grant cycle. It is organized chronologically to explain how to navigate the grant program from application to closing. Start by reading Section 1, which contains enough high-level introductory information to get you started. Section 2 summarizes each grant type, and Appendix A includes the corresponding criteria that the ranking teams will use to evaluate submitted applications.
Photo Credit: WI Department of Natural Resources, Korin Doering
Questions? Comments? Contact Chris Acy, the AIS Coordinator covering Brown, Outagamie, Fond du Lac, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties at (920) 460-3674 or chris@fwwa.org!
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The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization that identifies and advocates effective policies and actions that protect, restore, and sustain water resources in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.
Reporting invasive species is a first step in containing their spread. Maintaining and restoring our waters and landscapes can reduce the impacts even when we don’t have other management options to an invasive species.
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Original Story: Melina Myers
We are finding more and more people are interested in learning about invasive plants and you have an important role in sharing the information they need. This year with the support of the UW-Madison Extension Aquatic Invasive Outreach and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, we were able to connect with over 1,100 people in the two webinars they sponsored. To me, this indicates a significant interest in making a difference as it relates to managing invasive plants in our environment. For those of you who were able to attend, we appreciate you taking the time and your efforts to share your knowledge and passion on this subject.
If you missed the webinars, the recordings are still available to watch. Here is the link to the Helping Gardeners Create a Landscape Free of Invasive Plants webinar (enter Passcode: C4UKDz!y) and download the handout. Please share this information with other influencers in your group and other organizations that may be 
interested in learning more.
The second webinar recording Create a Beautiful Landscape Free of Invasive Plants is housed on the Milwaukee Public Library YouTube Channel and you can download the handout. This is geared toward the general public, so please feel free to share this with anyone who wants to learn more on this subject. You can also find links to both webinars and handouts on www.MelindaMyers.com by going to the On Demand Webinars page.
This increase in interest in invasive species provides us with an opportunity to reach new gardeners and those who are unfamiliar with this problem. Many of you, like me, have been talking about invasive species for years but as you know, like any subject, it may be new to people reaching out to you for gardening and environmental information.
A recent survey showed many new and young gardeners are shopping for plants online. Although regulations for the sale, purchase, and possession of invasive species are in place, some online sellers are not aware, up-to-date, or concerned with following existing state and federal regulations. Just because the plant can be purchased does not mean it is allowed in Wisconsin. We have an opportunity to help gardeners make informed purchases to avoid creating problems in their landscapes and our natural spaces and waterways here in Wisconsin. Encourage them to visit the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website before placing their online plant order.
When you meet with gardeners and discover any invasive plants in their landscape, start by making a connection. Keep in mind that many gardeners are not aware the plant is a problem. Let them know why management is important and how to properly dispose of the invasive plant.
Do the same when enjoying the outdoors. Watch for and report any invasive plant infestations you spot in public green spaces and natural areas to the Wisconsin DNR by emailing invasive.species@wisconsin.gov. Visit https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/report.html where you’ll find tips for documenting and reporting as well as links to other resources.
Thanks for all you do and together we can make a difference!
Photo Credit: Chris Acy
Questions? Comments? Contact Chris Acy, the AIS Coordinator covering Brown, Outagamie, Fond du Lac, Calumet, and Winnebago Counties at (920) 460-3674 or chris@fwwa.org!
Follow the Fox Wolf Watershed Alliance on our Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance Facebook page or @fox_wolf_watershed_alliance on Instagram! You can also sign-up for email updates at fwwa.org.
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization that identifies and advocates effective policies and actions that protect, restore, and sustain water resources in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.
Reporting invasive species is a first step in containing their spread. Maintaining and restoring our waters and landscapes can reduce the impacts even when we don’t have other management options to an invasive species.
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The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan announced Thursday it has released a smart phone app to guide people toward safe consumption of Great Lakes fish. The app provides personalized recommendations for eating fish from Lakes Huron, Michigan, Superior, from inland lakes in northern Michigan and northern Minnesota and store-bought fish. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-fish-app
The Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University and members of the Great Lakes Smart Ships Coalition will gather to deploy an autonomous surface vessel in hopes of finding the wreckage of a 1968 plane crash in Lake Superior. Read the full story by WWTV-TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-autonomous-vessel
Over the last week there have been numerous occasions when the Lake Michigan car ferry, S.S. Badger, has encountered boats that failed to give way. In some cases, the captain of the S.S. Badger was forced to take action to avoid a collision. In response, officials are imposing temporary fishing prohibitions. Read the full story by WWTV-TV – Cadillac, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-ferry-collision
Efforts by Pennsylvania Game Commission staff, and others, to bring an orange-legged, extirpated bird home to Erie County have “terned” out well. It is an uncommonly common milestone. Read the full story by Gettysburg Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-tern-return
Five hundred young sturgeon reared from a facility opened by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan State University were released last week at four locations in the Saginaw River system. Read the full story by Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-young-sturgeon
In 2023, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed a law, which set aside $125 million to remediate per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS). However, Republicans in the state legislature now disagree to the terms, and it’s been over a year that these funds have been frozen. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-pfas-divide
At the Great Lakes Experience VIP Fishing Day two weeks ago, held at Chadwick Bay in Dunkirk, New York, several charter captains, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, showcased the record-breaking fishing season on Lake Erie this year. Read the full story by the Observer Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-erie-fishing
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, removed a spare set of miter gates, constructed for the Davis and Sabin Locks, from the St. Marys River this summer. The miter gates were hidden in the river for over 80 years and weighed about 350,000 pounds each. Read the full story by Big News Network.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-amry-corps
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission has put together a team of researchers from Michigan State University and other universities to work on FishPass, a project that broke ground in May and will replace a local dam in Traverse City, Michigan. The goal is to let fish like walleye and lake sturgeon into the Boardman-Ottaway River while keeping out invasive species like sea lamprey. Read the full story by WOOD-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-vampire-fish
For Traverse City’s Bob Otwell, part of Michigan’s allure is its abundance of special places, and primary among them is the Upper Peninsula’s “wild and isolated” Two Hearted River watershed.
That’s where Otwell and family have had a cabin called “Boggy’s Camp” for over 30 years.
In a newly released book, The Real Two Hearted: Life, Love, and Lore Along Michigan’s Most Iconic River, Otwell chronicles his decades of paddling, hiking and mountain-biking along the Two Hearted and meshes those activities with raising a family along the way.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/storied-two-hearted-river-21st-century-update-in-new-book/
By Elinor Epperson Researchers at Cornell University are studying whether machine learning can help states and tribes predict the spread of a dangerous disease plaguing North American deer. A recent study done in partnership with Michigan State University showed that machine learning could calculate where chronic wasting disease will spread at the county level. That […]
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A federal judge has sentenced an Ohio business owner to one year on probation and a $5,000 fine for illegally dumping a hazardous ammonia-containing substance into the Scioto River near Kenton. The crime killed more than 40,000 fish. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20240823-illegal-dumping
Last week, Eau Claire, Wisconsin finally broke ground on a $20 million PFAS removal facility. The previous year, the city filed a lawsuit against multiples chemical manufacturers, demanding they cleanup after more than half of the city’s wells shutdown in 2021 due to contamination. However, many other municipalities across Wisconsin remain in a state of limbo.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/pfas-roundup-wisconsin-pfas-remediation-funds-still-frozen-due-to-partisan-divide/
By Eric Freedman A federal judge has sentenced an Ohio business owner to one year on probation and a $5,000 fine for illegally dumping a hazardous ammonia-containing substance into the Scioto River near Kenton. The crime killed more than 40,000 fish. U.S. Magistrate Judge Darrell Clay also ordered Mark Shepherd, 72, to perform 150 […]
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2024/08/22/illegal-dumping-nets-probation-sentence-in-ohio-fish-kill/
By Patrick Shea, Dan Wanschura and Morgan Springer
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.
Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/08/points-north-frankenfish/
