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Michigan residents care about the environment, poll reveals
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The Healthy People-Healthy Planet Poll surveyed 1,000 Michigan residents and found that the majority think environmental health is more important that economic gain.
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Vote for best named Great Lakes brew
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We culled through your nominations for the best name of a beer brewed in the Great Lakes watershed and put some of them on this poll. Our selection is arbitrary and of course misses many beers and breweries that were not nominated. And yeah, we get it about those of you who disdain creative names as something that fails to impress true beer aficionados. But sheesh…lighten up. Our bias is toward names that are particularly relevant to the Great Lakes environment or places.
Superior, Huron, Ontario left off favorite waterway poll
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Do you have a favorite waterway? Photograph it, submit the picture, and then vote for it as the best waterway in America. Three of 18 candidates provided by Environment America, a federation of state based citizen funded environmental advocacy organization, are Great Lakes- related. The poll includes Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and the Great lakes as a whole. “People from Chicago would identify with Lake Michigan more than the others, while those from Ohio would identify with Lake Erie,” said Piper Crowell, clean water advocate at Environment America, “ A Texan would identify with the Great Lakes as a whole.”
True.
Wildlife
Wild Pig Poll: Should we trap ’em?
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Between 3,000 and 5,000 wild hogs inhabit 69 of Michigan’s 83 counties. They ravage crops and forests and carry diseases. The Michigan Wildlife Conservancy – with help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services branch – has developed the Michigan Wild Hog Removal Program. It aims to set 100 traps – that cost $450 each — to round them up. Want a piece of the action?
Echo
Rate your climate change concern
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This survey shows where you fall on the spectrum of American attitudes toward climate change. This Echo story reports that Great Lakes residents worry less about it than the national average.
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How should carp be prevented from entering the Great Lakes at Chicago?
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The artificial connection between the Mississippi River and Great Lakes watersheds at Chicago is a highway for spreading invasive species between the regions. An electric barrier is meant to discourage invaders such as the voracious Asian carp which are knocking on the Great Lakes’ door. Is it enough? Cast your vote on how best to slam this door on invasive species. Read this Echo story and also this one for background.
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What should be the International Joint Commission’s top priority?
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The U.S./Canadian International Joint Commission meets Wednesday and Thursday in Windsor to discuss advice on Great Lakes environmental issues that it will give to those governments. That happens only once every two years. Six reports are on the commission’s agenda. Details are here. Which of these issues should be the top priority for Great Lakes policymakers and scientists?