Anyone can contribute water level information with app unveiled today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Continue Reading →
Stream app turns Great Lakes citizens into scientists
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Nearshore
The nearshore encompasses beaches and wetlands. It extends from uplands through the coasts and into the water near the shore.
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Grant program to fight Michigan invaders
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Program battles harmful plants and animals. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Catch of the Day, Invaders
Scandal and slavery by Lake Minnetonka
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Eric Dregni’s “By the Waters of Minnetonka” sheds light on the region’s rich history of European settlers, wealthy vacationers and scandal. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Art
New tool helps visualize how climate change could affect the Great Lakes
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A new web tool, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows how the Great Lakes would look in different climate change situations. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Catch of the Day, Climate change, Water quantity
Lake Erie isn’t only lake with algae headaches; Lake Ontario also on the hook
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Last summer’s Toledo water woes is a warning to the entire Great Lakes community. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Algae, Water quality
Goosebuster and BirdXPeller fight disease from bird droppings
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It’s an aerial defense of human health. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Birds, drones, Skywatch, Water quality
Where Wright went right – and wrong – on the lake
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This Lake Erie home is a spectacular attempt at tying architecture into a Great Lakes shoreline environment. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, energy efficiency
Flash point: The lighthouse Lake Superior nearly swallowed
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We asked Great Lakes photographers to send us some of their favorite or toughest Great Lakes shots and a bit of a story behind the picture. This image and explanation are by David Marvin. Most people have never heard of the Crisp Point Lighthouse, much less ever visited it. It stands on the Lake Superior shore fourteen miles west of Whitefish Point, connected to the rest of the world by only a winding seasonal gravel road. Originally, Crisp Point housed only a lifesaving station, starting in 1876. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Nearshore, Beaches, Catch of the Day, Flash Point, lighthouses
Lake’s legal saga unresolved after challenge to Minnesota summer camp rejected
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld an Itasca County decision that no environmental impact statement is required to build a proposed summer camp and retreat on Deer Lake.
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Filed under: Nearshore, Green Gavel, Law
Poll: A fifth of Michigan residents not Great Lakes wet yet
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Michigan residents may live in a basin containing nearly 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, but more than 21 percent failed to boat, swim or wade in a Great Lake in the past five years, according to a recent poll conducted by Lansing-based Public Sector Consultants. Here’s what else the poll revealed:
Only 13.5 percent of Michigan potential voters went to every lake during the past five years. Almost 21 percent visited one lake. Almost 19 percent visited two lakes. A little more than 16 percent visited three lakes. Continue Reading →