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Forestry officials hope that by thinning the ash tree population in southeastern Wisconsin they can improve their chances of detectinn an emerald ash borer infestation in its early stages. More...
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Some fishermen complain that Ohio's wild and wonderful steelhead trout are not as good as the old home-stocked rainbows known as Londons. More...
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Two Lake Superior lighthouses are among eight that will receive grants from the Michigan Lighthouse Assistance Program for structural improvements and maintenance. More...
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A bipartisan legislative panel has announced that reducing greenhouse gases will join clean water and renewable energy as the dominant environmental issues in the Minnesota state capitol next year. More...
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The Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Detroit's Belle Isle will close for a makeover over the winter. More...
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Naturalists are stumped as to why salmon have been traveling up a small stream at the New York State University College at Oswego campus this fall. More...
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In the event that the emerald ash borer cannot be contained, the Rose Lake Plant Materials Center is taking steps to see that the ash tree doesn't vanish forever by storing ash tree seed that can be used as the genetic base for work to re-establish ash trees for future generations. More...
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The Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River Basin Compact, which seeks to protect lake neighbors from water withdrawal by drier cities, faces serious opposition in the Senate. Concern over Ohio's power under a water-rights agreement with fellow Great Lakes states and Canada has raised questions about the measure. More...
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Minnow prices are likely to increase as a result of emergency regulations to slow the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS). Just how much the cost of bait will go up, and when, isn't yet known. More...
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COMMENTARY: Looking to the future on Wisconsin's environment
News posted a topic in Great Lakes News
Citizens across the state play important roles in caring for our environment through watershed associations, hunting and fishing organizations and land conservancies. The state should invest in these worthy efforts at civic environmentalism. More... -
The Ohio House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to approve the Great Lakes Compact, a regional agreement to protect the lakes against out-of-basin diversions, but the measure faces an uncertain future in the state senate. More...
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The Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact should have thorough scrutiny from legislators, but no minor concerns should derail this desperately needed agreement. More...
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Until recently, Lake Superior has avoided the kind of low water levels that have been affecting lakes Michigan and Huron the past few years, but that has changed since last summer. More...
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has denied a request to fund a research project to investigate the muck that has been piling up along Saginaw Bay. More...
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Residents of Ottawa County, Mich. will have to be watch what they put on their lawns now that the county board of commissioners has voted to ban the use of phosphorus fertilizers for residential use. More...
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A record nine wolves are known to have been illegally killed during Wisconsin's nine-day gun-deer hunting season, and officials believe that may be only part of the total. More...
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Researchers trying to establish a second migratory flock of endangered whooping cranes in North America are celebrating after the first of the birds to be hatched in the wild successfully completed a migration from Wisconsin to Florida. More...
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City leaders in Port Clinton, Ohio are looking to take advantage of the winds that whip off Lake Erie. More...
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An explosion and fire jolted a Sarnia, Ontario refinery early Thursday, though the bulk of operations were said to be unaffected. More...
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The Midwest Natural Resources Group (MNRG) was formally established as a forum for Federal agency senior executives to obtain proactive coordination of activities and to clearly establish the proper role of each Federal bureau with the Midwest, including the Great Lakes watersheds. More...
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Radium has been one of the main issues in the debate over sending Lake Michigan water to communities outside the natural basin of the Great Lakes. Three years ago, Wisconsin signed consent orders with 42 water utilities that required them to comply with federal radium standards. Only 13 have complied. More...
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality determined a hotel on East Grand Traverse Bay violated state law for using a bulldozer to reshape its beach. More...
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The Granholm administration is preparing to impose strict requirements on coal-fired power plants to reduce mercury emissions. The strategy, however, bears no relation to the actual sources of mercury in Michigan, the risk of exposure or the availability of control technologies More...
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Gary, Indiana, Mayor Rudy Clay has an answer for commuters who are sick of toll road and expressway traffic: a water ride. More...
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The Hammond Sanitary District commissioners approved borrowing up to $24 million to beat a federal pollution deadline by stopping even the emergency ejection of untreated sewage into the Grand and Little Calumet rivers. More...