By JORDAN TRAVIS
Dec. 6, 2009
LANSING, Mich. – As Ford Motor Co., Clairvoyant Energy and Xtreme Power work to turn the auto company’s former Wixom Assembly Plant into a renewable energy industrial park, other former auto plants sit empty.

(IL) Treehugger An emergency operation to stop invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes used more than 2,000 gallons of rotenone to poison six miles of a canal near Chicago this week. Tens of thousands of fish were killed.

Dec. 5, 2009
Michigan Now has an audio report of the Chicago canal carp kill. (And by audio, we don’t mean you can hear carp scream.)
And here’s a roundup of carp stories.
Broadcast news report:

By ADAM DeLAY
Dec. 5, 2009
LANSING – Wildlife enthusiast Jim DuFresne describes the scene as breathtaking.
“You take a six-hour boat ride where all you see is the clear water,” he says. “Then when you finally get there, you really feel like you’re in the wilderness and surrounded by nature. It’s truly an incredible feeling.”
The Clarkston outdoors writer isn’t talking about a far-away Alaskan forest or the famed Yellowstone National Park. He’s talking about Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park.

(IL) Chicago Tribune - Dozens of boats combed the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal starting in the pre-dawn hours today, ultimately finding a lone Asian carp among tens of thousands of poisoned fish.

(MI) The Associated Press - A government plan to prevent foreign species carried in ship ballast tanks from invading seacoasts, the Great Lakes and inland waterways is riddled with loopholes and would take effect too slowly, environmentalists say.

(MI) Petosky News-Review - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced $590,190 in federal funding for fish and wildlife restoration projects in the Great Lakes Basin.

By Haley Walker
Dec. 4, 2009
Chef Frank Turner buys local and organic food every Wednesday from a farmer’s market a few feet from where he works.
Turner uses tomatoes, greens, onions, squash and other items from approximately 18 vendors that set up each week on the grounds of Henry Ford Hospital in West Bloomfield, Mich.
The meals he creates from the fresh food aren’t served to restaurant patrons. They will most likely be enjoyed by someone in bed as Turner is the executive chef of the hospital and his customers are the patients.

(OH) Toledo Blade - Crews are days away from mobilizing for the Ottawa River’s historic $43 million restoration effort. First up will be dredging of Sibley Creek, an Ottawa River tributary.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mayor Larry Nelson has canceled a Dec. 8 public hearing and special Common Council meeting on the city’s proposed switch to Lake Michigan water.