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Each week, Great Lakes Echo features a photo story about a different Area of Concern designated by the U.S. or Canadian governments in the Great Lakes basin.
Guess where the area is located, based on the description of the site.
The Midwest’s four best ski resorts are in Great Lakes states, according to Outside Magazine. Here are the publication’s picks:
Best Powder: Mount Bohemia, Michigan
Best Terrain Park: Nub’s Nob, Michigan
Best Nightlife: Afton Alps, Minnesota
Best Escape: Devil’s Head Resort, Wisconsin
You can check out Outside’s reasoning. But we’re willing to bet there may be some disagreement out there. How about it?
This video is among those produced by students at Kent State University’s Stark campus under the direction of biology and journalism faculty.
It is part of a multidisciplinary study of the local environment called OurWaterWebs and based south of Cleveland.
A search for answers about orange water flowing from abandoned coal mines in Ohio’s Stark County.
Detroit Public TV and The Nature Conservancy on Wednesday hosted a seminar on Invasive Species in the Great Lakes for Great Lakes Now. The first panel discussion featuring experts explaining invasive species, how they arrived and their impact is below.
Mitigation: Unnecessary Destruction or Viable Alternative?”
A look at the wisdom of permitting development on wetlands.
Native mussels have rapidly declined in the Great Lakes region, casualties of the zebra and quagga mussels brought in the ballast of ships. The foreign mussels attach to the native ones so that they can’t open, feed, breathe or breed.
This week Echo reporters asked the public and an expert why it’s important to recycle.
