How are Anglo-Nubian goats like Asian carp?

By David Poulson | June 26, 2012

To answer that riddle you need to first review Monday’s Catch of the Day. It describes how communities in Texas and elsewhere still import Asian carp to clear an invasive plant out of vegetation-choked waterways. The carp are sterile to avoid substituting one invasive headache for another. (The carp threatening the Great Lakes are definitely not sterile and the longterm concern is that they will proliferate and dramatically change the native ecosystem.)

Where do the goats fit in? A reader notes a similar land-based phenomenon on New York’s Staten Island.

Lake Michigan property owners say, “Leave them lake levels alone”

By Jeff Gillies | February 8, 2011

An international study board is looking into raising the levels of lakes Michigan and Huron. This is at the urging of a group of Lake Huron property owners who insist that a bad dredging job on the St. Clair River – Lake Huron’s outlet – has drained their lake to an unnatural low. But a rising Lake Huron lifts Lake Michigan’s boats: They’re the same lake. So a member of the study board’s public advisory group asked his coalition of Great Lakes property owners what they thought about the prospect of a higher Lake Michigan.