Marquette’s Great Lakes Climate Corps is wrapping up its summer of projects. The team of young adults improves the environment with community-based projects around Michigan’s upper peninsula. Read the full story by WLUC – TV – Marquette, MI.
More than three months after the Michipicoten sustained a rupture to its hull on Lake Superior, the Canadian-flagged bulk carrier remains dockside in Superior, Wisconsin. Read the full story by TBnewswatch.
Ohio-based plaintiffs seeking strict limits on agricultural runoff allowed into Lake Erie streams and tributaries have been given until Monday to tell a U.S. District Judge how they would like the case to proceed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the state’s first-ever Total Maximum Daily Load for the lake’s western basin last year, but plaintiffs claim it wasn’t strong enough and renewed their lawsuit. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
In Michigan, Chinook and Coho salmon pick up on decreasing day length and cooler temperatures as signals to migrate into river systems to spawn. Warmer temperatures don’t always bode well for fishermen looking to land salmon as they make their fall run, though decreasing daylight will allow water temperatures to drop. Read the full story by WZZM-TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
The Neeskay, a Milwaukee-based research vessel, got its start more than 70 years ago as a supply vessel in the Korean War. Today, it travels Lake Michigan on various research projects for UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences and other agencies, helping scientists in the state gather valuable data. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Construction crews began to replace the Union Street Dam in Traverse City, Michigan, with a unique structure called FishPass which is designed to enable native fish migration while stopping invasive species. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission is spearheading the project that is expected to finish in 2027. Read the full story by MLive.
Enbridge, a Canadian energy company, is still waiting for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build its proposed tunnel that would house a segment of its Line 5 pipeline. As Anishnaabe and environmental groups in the U.S. continue to ask for the complete closure of the pipeline, a delayed environmental impact statement is pushing the start of construction until at least 2026. Read the full story by CBC News.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received 195 reports of algal blooms and related illnesses on Wisconsin lakes as of September 9, exceeding the 178 reports received last year. The DNR confirmed around 72 percent were cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae blooms, that may have been caused by heavy rains earlier this summer carrying more nutrients into lakes. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
The Leelanau Historical Society and Museum in Leelanau County, Michigan, is hosting its 3rd annual Maritime History Festival. The event will feature displays showcasing the maritime culture of the area through lighthouse and ship models, a shipwreck exhibit, and the 19th annual live exhibit “Wood Boats on the Wall” which will feature classic wooden boats from around the region. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.
At an upcoming event on efforts to remediate the St. Clair River Area of Concern, speakers will provide information on microplastics in the Great Lakes, efforts to restore the St. Clair River aquatic environment, and the four remaining beneficial use impairments on the St. Clair River. Read the full story by Windsor News Today.
A historic lifeboat was dedicated in a ceremony at the popular Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum site on Whitefish Point, Michigan, on Saturday. Read the full story by Soo Leader.
The Cheboygan Lock in Cheboygan, Michigan, will close for much of the fall and winter for restoration work, reopening in late spring 2025, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.