The 2024 western Lake Erie algal bloom has become the second in modern history to linger into November with about 10 square miles of the bloom remaining. Read the full […]
The 2024 western Lake Erie algal bloom has become the second in modern history to linger into November with about 10 square miles of the bloom remaining. Read the full story by The Blade.
Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s process for setting new fishing limits can take years. The agency says that a new rule would allow it to better respond to […]
Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s process for setting new fishing limits can take years. The agency says that a new rule would allow it to better respond to changes in the lake trout and cisco populations. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Northwest Ohio municipalities could soon hear regional planners being more vocal in their support of a stronger and more robust management strategy for western Lake Erie, such as one that […]
Northwest Ohio municipalities could soon hear regional planners being more vocal in their support of a stronger and more robust management strategy for western Lake Erie, such as one that has become a hotly debated issue in U.S. District Court. Read the full story by The Blade.
The impending closure of North and South Manitou islands during a multi-year infrastructure project at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan may spell the end for a […]
The impending closure of North and South Manitou islands during a multi-year infrastructure project at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan may spell the end for a 107-year-old Michigan ferry service. Read the full story by MLive.
A newly formed, not-for-profit association of local governments and industries is the latest group trying to become added as a defendant in the landmark Lake Erie case in U.S. District […]
A newly formed, not-for-profit association of local governments and industries is the latest group trying to become added as a defendant in the landmark Lake Erie case in U.S. District Court. Read the full story by The Blade.
November is the deadliest month for shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Despite the harsh storms, ships would often have overloaded cargo holds for the final trip of the year, making […]
November is the deadliest month for shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Despite the harsh storms, ships would often have overloaded cargo holds for the final trip of the year, making them more vulnerable as storms arose. Read the full story by MLive.
Of the 350 shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Superior, there is one particularly famous steamship called the SS Kamloops. In 1977, fifty years after the ship disappeared, the divers […]
Of the 350 shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Superior, there is one particularly famous steamship called the SS Kamloops. In 1977, fifty years after the ship disappeared, the divers that found the wreck were met with a grisly sight. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
In 1998, elementary school students in Belle River, Ontario, threw letters in a bottle into Lake St. Clair. Twenty-six years later, a kindergarten student from the same school found one […]
In 1998, elementary school students in Belle River, Ontario, threw letters in a bottle into Lake St. Clair. Twenty-six years later, a kindergarten student from the same school found one of the bottles and its letter about Great Lakes water. Read the full story by the CBC.
The Detroit Historical Society is honoring lost mariners during its annual Lost Mariners Remembrance this weekend in Detroit, Michigan. It’s the 25th year the society has held the event, which […]
The Detroit Historical Society is honoring lost mariners during its annual Lost Mariners Remembrance this weekend in Detroit, Michigan. It’s the 25th year the society has held the event, which also marks the anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.
An anaerobic digester in Michigan was shut down after a liquid waste product called “digestate” escaped a nearby farm and flooded a neighboring home’s backyard. Environmentalists point to this incident […]
An anaerobic digester in Michigan was shut down after a liquid waste product called “digestate” escaped a nearby farm and flooded a neighboring home’s backyard. Environmentalists point to this incident as a prime example of what can go wrong if anaerobic digesters aren’t adequately regulated while lawmakers are pushing legislation that would expand the market for biogas produced by digesters and exempt them from certain regulations. Read the full story by MLive.
Lake Erie’s 2024 walleye hatch is being characterized as “low,” meaning that in two years, when the current crop grows to legal keeper size of 15 inches, something fewer than […]
Lake Erie’s 2024 walleye hatch is being characterized as “low,” meaning that in two years, when the current crop grows to legal keeper size of 15 inches, something fewer than 10 million will be added. The most recent hatch and the only other rated low during the past 10 years happened in 2016. Read the full story by The Columbus Dispatch.
Michigan’s freshwater sand dunes make up the largest collection of freshwater dunes on the planet. A pair of West Michigan lawmakers seek to solve the problem of vague legal protections […]
Michigan’s freshwater sand dunes make up the largest collection of freshwater dunes on the planet. A pair of West Michigan lawmakers seek to solve the problem of vague legal protections with planned legislation to protect the state’s most sensitive dunes, or those that were designated as “critical dunes” in 1989. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
