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The state of Michigan’s budget includes notable investments in conservation and restoration. Highlights include waterfront land conservation and funding to support an effort to reintroduce Arctic grayling to select rivers […]
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During their Sept. 13 meeting, For Our Youth members learned to make salsa and about microplastics found in Lake Huron.
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On Saturday, the Alliance for the Great Lakes hosted its Adopt-a-Beach event as part of an international coastal cleanup. Around 2,000 of those volunteers worked to clean up the Great […]
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When Americans think of our coastlines, most picture the beaches of the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Gulf. But the Great Lakes are America’s fourth coast — a 2,300-mile expanse. […]
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Manistee, a Northern Michigan beach town, is looking to make its award-winning beaches even better. Read the full story by MLive.
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Visitors sometimes leave stuff behind at Great Lakes beaches. One of the most common pieces of plastic trash found are cigarette butts. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.
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More than a dozen Michigan beaches are under bacteria advisories — or are closed — as Michiganders head into the third week of August. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
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Potential beach days are popping up across Michigan as drier and cooler weather approaches the state. However, 15 swimming spots are closed or under contamination advisories for water quality that’s […]
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Nothing says quintessential Wisconsin summer like days spent on the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. And now, after the New York Times published a story highlighting six Great […]
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Mining operations left behind uniquely colored beaches in Minnesota and Michigan, but the materials are different. Minnesota’s Black Beach in Silver Bay contains stamp sands from taconite tailings and is […]
Nearly 100 people drown in the Great Lakes each year – an Upper Peninsula start-up called SwimSmart is working to address that. Read the full story by Second Wave Michigan.