More than $159 million in Great Lakes projects is included in President Joe Biden’s proposed budget, including a study that would identify coastal areas vulnerable to flooding and find ways to shore them up. Read the full story by MLive.
Started by a former National Parks Service ranger, the first and only tour service authorized to lead tours into the wilderness areas of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is educating and bringing small groups to observe piping plovers. Read the full story by The Ticker. Read the full story
According to NOAA’s Great Lakes Regional Coordinator, the designation of an area in Lake Ontario waters as a national marine sanctuary to protect a nationally significant collection of shipwrecks is about to enter its final stage. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times. Read the full story
It has been more than two years since the collapse of the Sanford and Edenville Dams in mid-Michigan, which drained the lakes the dams once held back. While the lakes have remained dry, the beds of the drained lakes are now teeming with vegetation. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Sanford, MI. Read the…
Authorities confirmed that a small craft operated by a Canadian oil pipeline company contractor crashed into the Mackinac Bridge after nightfall this month. Read the full story by MLive. Read the full story
The Michigan state House is expected to take up a $3.3 billion water infrastructure bill which passed the Senate in December. The money would help upgrade drinking water and wastewater utility systems, replace lead pipes, remediate toxic sites, protect private well owners from contaminants, replace failing septic system, and install filtration in schools. Read the…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Trash Free Waters Program paid for the UW-Oshkosh Marine Debris Mitigation Project boat that is helping to clear the waters of the Great Lakes. It’s Wisconsin’s first aquatic trash boat. Read the full story by Door County Pulse. Read the full story
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