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The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission is looking for support on a proposed Buffalo Reef stamp sand removal plan. Mining stamp sands are encroaching on the 22,000-foot reef on Lake Superior near Houghton, Michigan. The reef serves as spawning grounds for whitefish and trout. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

A White House official visited the Lake Elmo, Minnesota high school known as “ground zero” for PFAS contamination. Last year, state lawmakers passed Amara’s Law, named for a Tartan High School graduate who spent the last few months of her life lobbying Minnesota state lawmakers to crack down on the “forever chemicals” which contributed to her liver cancer diagnosis. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

More than 15 years after the Great Lakes Compact was signed, For Love of Water (FLOW), a Great Lakes advocacy organization, has reevaluated the compact and its goal of protecting lake water from being diverted by canals, aqueducts, pipelines, vessels, tunnels or tanker trucks. Read the full story by Michigan Advance.

The S.S. Badger is fully recovered and ready for another season on Lake Michigan’s open waters. The opening voyage for the 410-foot boat will be manned by 100 employees, ready to take the trip across the lake. The trip shortens a 7-8.5 hour, over 400-mile journey to a 60-mile jaunt taking 4 hours. Read the full story by WXMI-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Cedar River in Michigan to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. Applications will be conducted between May 21-30 in accordance with State of Michigan permits. Read the full story by the EagleHerald.

A renewable energy company announced it will use the shores of Lake Erie in Harborcreek Township, Pennsylvania, as the spot to test how wave energy converters hold up to different marine conditions while also focusing on sustainability, energy efficiency and potential impacts on local ecosystems. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.

U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow, co-chair of the U.S. Senate Great Lakes Task Force, and Gary Peters applauded the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passage of its bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024. The legislation would extend the program for another five years through 2031 and increase annual funding authorization from $475 million $500 million. Read the full story by the Oscoda Press.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced that over six million fish had been restocked throughout the state’s inland waters and the Great Lakes in 2023. Over 1.3 million Chinook Salmon and 450,000 Brown Trout were stocked in Wisconsin’s Great Lakes. Read the full story by WFRV-TV – Green Bay, WI.

A former lightkeeper reminisced on her family’s stay at Trowbridge Light Station, off the northern shore of Lake Superior, from March to December while the lake was free of ice. Duties included everything from manual labour, to working with generators and radio equipment. Important work, as those activities helped to keep the waters safe for the booming shipping industry on the great lake. Read the full story by CBC News.

Beginning in the 1940s, businesses started using the Rouge River in southeast Michigan as a dumping ground for industrial pollution. Local activists formed the Friends of the Rouge in 1986. A coordinator of its flagship program, Rouge Rescue, recounted his involvement at the annual event where they organize volunteers across the watershed to remove trash from the river. Read the full story by Planet Detroit.

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