The Traverse City, Michigan-based Conservation Resource Alliance plans to rebrand Black Friday as Green Friday to kick off its participation in the new Forest to Mi Faucet program. The primary focus is to make a link between forest cover and clean drinking water. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Two weeks of arctic weather yielded surges in ice production on the Great Lakes, putting ice coverage in line with historical norms. Read the full story by The Duluth News Tribune. Read the full story
According to The Ohio Wetlands Association, Ohio has lost more than 90% of its wetlands, largely because of agriculture, real estate development and the expansion of recreational areas. The Nature Conservancy is working hard to protect the ones that are left. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1. Read the full story
From Milwaukee, Mark Jones and his wife set off on a cruise around the Great Lakes, travelling north to Mackinac, where the tips of lakes Michigan and Huron merge. Read the full story by the Daily Mail. Read the full story
It’s back to the drawing board for scientists trying to come up with an accurate forecasting model for the annual harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie. For the second year in a row, the severity of the bloom has been underestimated. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. Read the full story
Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes have been hand harvesting wild rice for more than a thousand years. Now, it’s mostly gone. However, there are efforts from tribes to restore rice beds and bring more recognition to the grain in Michigan. Read and listen to the full story by WKAR – East Lansing, MI. Read…
Permitted users in the cities of Two Harbors and Grand Marais, Minnesota, take an average of 50 million gallons per day out of Lake Superior, the largest of those users being Northshore Mining. Read the full story WTIP – Grand Marias, MN. Read the full story
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