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The Berrien County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution calling for the State of Michigan to prepare a contingency plan for dealing with the Asian carp threat; the plan should include -- but not be limited to -- closing fish ladders at dams on the Saint Joseph River. More...
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Mute swans tend to stay in the same area year-round, moving only as far as necessary to find open water in winter.A New York project that put neck bands on some of these invasive, non-native birds to track their movements has definitely confirmed that. More...
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Despite 70 years of control efforts, a University of Wisconsin researcher said climate change and a warming Lake Superior could lead to a rise of the invasive-and destructive-sea lamprey. More...
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An $890,000 appropriation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will improve fish recruitment at the Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and provide a shot in the arm to the local economy. More...
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An aggressive - and expensive - Asian carp fishing expedition on the Chicago canal system likely will prove fruitless, say top carp experts. More...
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A resolution to delist the gray wolf in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the federal endangered species list passed the state House by an "Aye" vote of support on Tuesday afternoon. More...
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Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant has prepared a toolkit containing information to help communities start a collection program for unwanted medicines. Collection programs help reduce the amount of pharmaceuticals that leach into the environment and water supply due to improper disposal. More...
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Most of us now know there's a possibility that Asian carp could establish themselves in Lake Michigan, and then move into other Great Lakes, potentially wiping out the $7 billion-plus fishing industry. This saga also offers some significant insight into how government works and doesn't work. More...
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The Old Upper Mountain dump site in Lockport, NY, is of particular interest to the NY Department of Environmental Conservation because of its connection to Eighteenmile Creek. The federal Great Lakes Legacy Act has identified Eighteenmile Creek as a Great Lakes Basin "Area of Concern." More...
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More than 100 people from Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are traveling to D.C. this week to press for items including continued funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. More...
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Contaminated portion of St. Mary's to be dredged this spring
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency will begin cleaning up another portion of the St. Mary's River this spring, the last known area of significant contamination. More... -
Illinois' attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold its earlier decision not to force the state to close Chicago-area shipping locks to prevent the spread of Asian carp, arguing that Michigan's renewed pleas were unfounded. More...
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Dams, like the ones the Kankakee River in Illinois, and the ones on the Wabash River in Huntington, Ind., and on Tippecanoe River in north-central Indiana, have been primarily responsible for keeping the unwanted exotic species out of northern Indiana's waters. More...
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The Obama administration's Great Lakes restoration plan is getting favorable marks in the upper Midwest, but many details, including most of the funding, remain to be worked out. More...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is investigating whether the electrical field generated by the underwater barriers designed to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes has extended into adjacent land near the barrier site in Romeoville, Ill. More...
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Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox says there's no sense of urgency in President Obama's plan for dealing with Asian Carp. The voracious fish have been found in shipping channels near Lake Michigan. More...
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A northern Wisconsin man is biking across the frozen surface of Lake Superior. He took off for the week-long Apostle Islands Bike Expedition from Washburn, Wis., on Monday in search of the sounds of the ice. More...
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The Obama administration last week unveiled its $78.5 million plan to block the Asian carp from decimating the Great Lakes. While the plan has many positive aspects, the question is whether it goes far enough to protect the Great Lakes' annual $7 billion fishing industry. More...
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The debate taking place in Chicago these days surrounding how and whether to stop destructive Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes might seem like a far-off issue, but it really isn't when you consider Lake Michigan is a relatively short swim from Lake Erie. More...
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New York legislators were quick to criticize the proposed closing of state parks and historic sites as part of a plan to close an anticipated budget gap of $8.2 billion. The plan includes reducing services at Niagara Falls State Park, which is a magnet that attracts untold numbers of international travelers. More...
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Slow-moving chunks of ice in the St. Clair River have created dire consequences along miles of the waterway in recent weeks, tearing apart docks, threatening Great Lakes shipping and leaving some wondering whether the start to boating season will be delayed. More...
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Ohio's bald eagle nesting season is under way with at least two eagle pairs already incubating eggs in Huron County and Ashtabula County, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. More...
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In February 2009, President Obama proposed $475 million for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The final action plan describing how the Initiative will be executed from 2010 to 2014 was released on Feb. 21, 2010. More...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on behalf of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, held a meeting in Chicago on Feb. 12 to discuss plans and get recommendations on Asian carp control efforts. View a video of the meeting online. More...
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Materials from the recent Boundary Waters Treaty Centennial Symposium in Detroit, Mich., are available online. The symposium was presented on Feb. 5, 2010, by The Wayne Law Review in association with Wayne State University Law School and the University of Windsor. More...