Two series highlight trip around Lake Superior, fisheries in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan

By Jeff Gillies
Great Lakes Echo
June 25, 2009

Here are couple of recent and on-going series on Great Lakes topics. Dave Spratt of Great Northern Outdoors has written a good three-part series that tells the story of shifting food webs in lakes Huron and Michigan. Parts one and two look at the collapse of Chinook salmon and the rise of walleye in Lake Huron — changes driven by the impact of zebra and quagga mussels on the once abundant alewives. Part three heads to Lake Michigan, where alewives are down but haven’t disappeared, and competing interests from five resource departments in four states make consensus on fish sticking decisions tough. The story is the third one listed on the Great Northern Outdoors main page.

Injury suspends Minnesota kayaker’s trip around the Great Lakes

By Jeff Gillies, gilliesj@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
May 29, 2009

Bryan Hansel, who began an attempt in early May to paddle a kayak around all five Great Lakes, has suspended his trip to deal with tendon problems in his forearms. He made the announcement on his Web site, Around the Great Lakes. In the meantime, those still hungry for Great Lakes circumnavigations can fill up on Loreen Niewenhuis’s walk around Lake Michigan and Hannah Williams and Matt Abbotts’ kayak trip around Lake Superior.