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East Lansing launches 20-year plan to address lead exposure
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East Lansing, Michigan, is gathering information about lead contamination in resident water services. Notices regarding the potential threat were issued in November.
Agriculture
Strawberry farmers assess polar vortex damage, take precautions against cold
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Now is the most crucial time to ensure a productive strawberry crop, experts say. Precautions are needed to avoid misshapen berries with poor color that could allow large strawberry-producing states to displace the market for local fruit.
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Researchers want your old Lake Michigan vacation pictures
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Have any old photos of sand dunes lying around?
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What’s the recipe for a Michigan beautiful place?
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MLive recently published a list of the most beautiful places in each Michigan county.
Catch of the Day
Warm weather means less ice, more erosion at Lake Erie’s Presque Isle State Park
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About $3 million will be spent on annual beach replenishment this year.
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Clarion named Pennsylvania’s river of the year
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The popular waterway is known for public recreation and secret musky holes.
contamination
Ontario fuel spill could threaten Lake Erie
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Environmentalists worry that a recent fuel spill in south-central Ontario will reverse their efforts to restore the local environment and that it threatens Lake Erie.
Climate
When the mitten needed a mitten
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From NASA’s Earth Observatory: “You can almost feel that cold in this natural-color image, acquired on January 27, 2019, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Cloud streets and lake-effect snow stretch across the scene, as frigid Arctic winds blew over the Great Lakes. More here.
Waste
Michigan communities get state money to collect scrap tires
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The round-up of scrap tires, known to be both fire and mosquito hazards, is the goal of almost $1 million in state grants awarded recently by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Echo
Most northern Michigan roadside parks have closed for the winter
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Travelers sometimes wish that the parks could stay open year-round, but the cost of continual snow removal and heating facilities during the winter is simply not in the Michigan Department of Transportation’s budget.