Anglers are at risk of contracting E. coli while fishing in Michigan’s Pine River, according to a recent study. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-pine-river-fish
Researchers who need help monitoring the flow of Lake Superior tributaries in and around the Duluth-Superior area in Minnesota are seeking volunteers to text in their observations. Read the full story by Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-stream-flow-monitoring
Wisconsin environmental regulators say they’re still moving forward on work to address so-called forever chemicals, known as PFAS, during the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources acknowledges some work is being postponed. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-wisconsin-pfas
The great outdoors are about the only thing open amid the coronavirus pandemic. Fishing is allowed under Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer’s stay home order, as long as people can follow social distancing guidelines. Read the full story by The Times Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-anglers-still-casting
Lake Superior water levels went up by eight tenths of an inch in March, a month that normally sees a decline. Read the full story by KDAL – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-lake-superior-high-water
The biggest city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is closing its parks amid the outbreak of COVID-19. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-marquette-closes-parks
Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior is delaying its annual opening from April 15 until at least June 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story by Post Bulletin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-isle-royale-delays-opening
Deciding exactly how far to travel during the Minnesota’s social distancing efforts is left to individuals, and some anglers are sticking close to home. Read the full story by MPR News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-stay-at-home-outside
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S. and globally, threatening the health and economic prospects of many, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has suspended enforcement of broad swathes of its own regulatory policies. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-epa-lightens-regulations
For untold generations, Indigenous people traversed North America’s interlocking waterways by canoe which often required portaging when moving between watersheds. One of the most important portage routes in Minnesota, known today as the Northwest Trail, connected the Mississippi River to Lake Superior. Read the full story by Minneapolis Post.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200407-lake-superior-portaging
NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/tropical-cyclone-database-updated-twice-weekly
Oil companies successfully request lighter oversight amid coronavirus pandemic. Farmers support the move.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/epa-suspends-enforement-covid-19-coronavirus/
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/04/07/study-finds-health-risk-from-pine-river-fish/
How about dinner “on” Mackinac, Washington or Drummond islands? All while helping your family learn more about the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/great-lakes-learning-island-destination-dinner/
Six-month forecasts predict the Great Lakes to break current water level records in July and August, giving Lake Michigan and Lake Huron 4 trillion gallons more water than when the highest water level was in the fall of 1986. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-high-water
The National Museum of the Great Lakes is expanding its free virtual education initiatives to provide visitors with new history-based, home-learning opportunities. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-museum-virtual
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy extended the comment period on the status of water quality in the Lake Erie Adaptive Management Plan until June. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-mi-erie-lamp
The International Joint Commission is allowing deviations from the Lake Ontario lake level management plan and permitting the release of more water from to lake to offset rising water levels. Read the full story by WXXI – Rochester, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-ijc
Once abundant along Lake Superior’s north shore and islands, only 50 caribou remain in the region as populations dwindle from wolf predation and habitat loss. Read the full story by the Post Bulletin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-caribou
Lake Erie water levels are three inches about 1986 record water levels, and a foot higher than 2019. Read the full story by the Public News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-lake-erie-levels
Door County, Wisconsin, has joined the growing ranks of tourist destinations that are closing resorts and turning away visitors, hoping that shutting their doors now will help them open sooner in the coming months. Read the full story by the Wausau Pilot & Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-closed-door
Video footage of the Lake Huron shoreline in Michigan reveals the extent of damage caused by high-water levels to property and infrastructure. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-helicopter-footage
The state of Michigan formed the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team to coordinate action across seven state departments to detect and mitigate PFAS contamination. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-mpart
Families in Kent County, Michigan, have 300 times the recommended limit of PFAS coming out of faucets in their homes. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200406-pfas
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/04/06/many-university-students-dont-qualify-for-covid-aid/
Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig shares his own memories of the first Earth Day and the changes he’s noticed in the nature around him since then.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/great-lakes-moment-earth-day-turns-50/
As the poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry once said, “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
Our first H.O.M.E.School activity asks students to make a list of the special places in their lives and draw their own “sense of place” maps. These maps do not need to be geographically accurate, but they do tell the story of a place from your kid’s point of view.
This lesson will help develop their spatial reasoning abilities, their mapping skills, and a greater “sense of place” – or connection to the Great Lakes.
This activity will take between 30 minutes and an hour.
You’ll need:
Watch the video below to learn about maps and get today’s activity.
Ask your kids to show you the maps they’ve made. What places have they drawn? Why are these things important to them?
Kids: Practice your mapmaking skills. Try to draw or trace an outline of the Great Lakes!
Parents: Share your kid’s Great Lakes map on social media! And if you tag the Alliance for the Great Lakes, we might share it, too.
Want to learn more? Check out these resources!
The post H.O.M.E.School Week 1: Maps appeared first on Alliance for the Great Lakes.
News – Alliance for the Great Lakes
News – Alliance for the Great Lakes
https://greatlakes.org/2020/04/h-o-m-e-school-week-1-maps/
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/04/06/count-on-for-frogs-toads/
In this web exclusive, Great Lakes Now looks at Michigan’s PFAS Action Response Team.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/episode-1012-web-extra-pfas-mpart/
Green Bay, WI
https://www.weather.gov/grb/2020_Statewide_Virtual_Tornado_Drill_Thurday_April_16th
In this web exclusive, two residents from Kent County, Michigan, share about their struggles with PFAS.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/episode-1012-web-extra-pfas-families/
Education Consultant Gary Abud Jr. has four helpful tips to make the most of online discussions with your students and children as lessons and activities move to the home.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/great-lakes-learning-tips-student-conversation/
Theodore J. Karamanski’s sweeping maritime history, Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America, demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics and environment of continental North America. Read the full story by the Door County Pulse.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-navigation
The United States Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District announced in early March that Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie all set new monthly records for their levels, beating records set in 1986 for Superior, Michigan, and Huron and 1987 for Lake Erie. Read the full story by the Huron Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-lake-levels
Scientists have created a lake thermal classification system and noted that a significant proportion of lakes could be reclassified as warmer types as global temperatures rise. Read the full story by Eos.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-lake-classification
Enbridge Energy will not delay submitting permits for its controversial Great Lakes Tunnel Project because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-enbridge
Members of the Michigan Congressional PFAS Task Force sent a letter outlining their priorities to address in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to address harmful PFAS chemicals. Read the full story by WNEM – TV – Bay City, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-pfas
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, announced that an agreement has been signed that will help them directly assist Detroit neighborhoods in fighting against flooding events expected during this upcoming spring and summer seasons. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-detroit-flooding
The Presque Isle Conservation District plans to restore fish and wildlife habitat at the Trout River Dam in Rogers Township, Michigan. Read the full story by the Alpena News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-trout-river-dam
The Essex Region Conservation Authority on Thursday issued long-term flood watch for the entire region. The flood watch includes all shorelines along Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-flood-watch
Lake Michigan buoys that operate off Port Sheldon and South Haven, Michigan were placed on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Read the full story by WHTC – Holland, MI
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-buoys
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Thursday announced that it has extended the public comment deadline for a plan on battling algal blooms in Lake Erie until June 19. Read the full story by Patch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200403-algal-blooms
By Kaye LaFond, Interlochen Public Radio
Enbridge Energy will not delay submitting permits for its controversial Great Lakes Tunnel Project because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tribal governments that oppose the project want Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to slow the process down. They say it’s impossible to prepare for public comment and official tribal consultations when most tribal staff are sheltering in place.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/enbridge-move-forward-tunnel-permitting-covid-19/
Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2020/04/03/michigan-residents-want-to-save-and-spend-stimulus-checks/
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/04/great-lakes-energy-coronavirus-covid-19-nuclear-solar/
The cruise ships that typically dock in Muskegon, Michigan, each summer have postponed some of their visits due to COVID-19, a sign that the region’s tourism industry may take a hard hit this summer. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200402-tourism
The portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway that includes the north country opened Wednesday morning. The section from Montreal to Lake Ontario opened eight days later than the Seaway’s Welland Canal section. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200402-seaway
Residents surrounding Lake Ontario feel that high water levels are due to IJC’s plan 2014, which allows for water levels in Lake Ontario to fluctuate. Read the full story by The Globe and Mail.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200402-flooding
This week is a great week to reel in some walleye around Lake Erie, but also make sure to keep your social distance while doing so. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200402-walleye
Michigan farms are prohibited from applying animal waste as cropland fertilizer in winter unless the farms meet certain conditions under a new general permit for factory-sized agribusiness operations. The new restriction is intended to prevent nutrients from entering waterways. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20200402-manure
