Echo commentator provides perspective on pace of Great Lakes solutions
Gary Wilson
Popular Echo commentator Gary Wilson recently took on some video work during Great Lakes Week in Cleveland. That was a meeting of several Great Lakes organizations including the International Joint Commission.
In this clip Gary discusses the frustration some organizations expressed in an Echo story and elsewhere over the pace of addressing Great Lakes environmental problems.
The clip provided by Detroit Public Television also includes Gary raising that issue at a town hall featuring members of the International Joing Commssion and other top environmental officials.
Also providing perspective is Patrick Doran, the Nature Conservancy’s director of science for Michigan and the Great Lakes.
This is such BS. A stall tactic. What the agreement does is make you all feel good, forget and go away. All the while they keep their cushy jobs. Anytime and in any circumstance when you hear someone, anyone use the expression “Move forward” they are lying, cheating, stealing and generally not doing their job. This is a hypno-trance statement that makes people want to be agreeable and it buys the incompetent people more time. As far as the Lake Erie algae problems, there are 3 main causes, nutrient loading being just 1. The inhibited ice flow by the N.Y.P.A. “Ice boom” is the single biggest change to this 12,000 year old ecosystem function. It is the root of all evil. Accept that fact and think. The 2ND of 3 causes is not ready for release just yet but answers a lot of questions. So, let’s form a unified front, put an end to more studies and implement solutions. Also please throw some support my way. Read “Ice Boom Theory” at http://www.bantheboom.com Thank you, Joe Barrett
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Although global warming is most influenced by America in a per capita perspective. Let’s face it, the lack of lake ice will persist even when we fix our problems. So the immediate solution isn’t to address the problem… That problem is global warming (a larger concept)… Mass transit, CO2 emmisioins, what not. Instead the solution is to prevent algal blooms with the resources at hand, which still help reduce global warming. Algae makes oxygen which is good; but when you make it all at once, it dies and you get CO2. When you’re trying to fix a wolf problem, you just don’t throw a 19 year old at the problem, you have to tame the wolf.
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Please find Culver Lake Biomanipulation Project. The lack of zooplankton that controls the algae leaves the lakes wide open to problems regardless of where the phosphorus comes from. Too many zooplanktivores and you get algae blomms. I’m told algae blooms started in the 1950′s, the alewives were 90% of the biomass in the 50′s.(Lack of predators, over fishing) Every where alewives have gone, same pattern, Zooplankton crash, native fish recruitment crash, algae blooms increase. Now add other invasive planktivores, major algae blooms. Since the plan is to keep the alewives dominant, we’re gonna keep having algae problems etc… Predators or top down control fixs the problem. I believe if you check the fluxuations, they will coincide with predator levels.
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I checked the project out. I see where you’re coming from.
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Joe and everyone, there is tons of “studies” papers out there. The basics of “real’ science biology are being ignored. Google alewives algae blooms, there’s no logical reason for anyone to want alewives. But saving them is the plan, and the root cause of pretty much all our problems in the lake. Overfishing is next.
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