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Photo Friday: Lake Superior northern lights
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To enter a submission to Great Lakes Echo Photo Friday, send your photo, a caption and your name to greatlakesecho@gmail.com.
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Last chance to fill out a SmackDown! Terrestrial Terror bracket
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Which terrestrial terror is the most destructive Great Lakes invasive species? You have a few more days to figure it out. Please turn in your brackets, found here, by Monday. We’ll declare the Round 1 winners and have readers and scientists discuss the “land brawls” on Tuesday. Will the emerald ash borer defeat the sirex woodwasp?
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Terrestrial Terror Round 1: Miscellaneous mayhem
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Editor’s note: Great Lakes SmackDown Terrestrial Terror is an ongoing Great Lakes Echo series. Brackets can be filled out until Friday, March 18. Find more information here. By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
The heavyweights and wildcards take to the ring in the final land brawls of round one of the Great Lakes SmackDown Terrestrial Terror. FERAL SWINE vs.
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Terrestrial Terror Round 1: Plant peril
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Editor’s note: Great Lakes SmackDown Terrestrial Terror is an ongoing Great Lakes Echo series. Brackets can be filled out until Friday, March 18. Find more information here. By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
It’s time for the plants and plant-killing exotics to take root in the SmackDown. PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE vs.
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Michigan’s oil spill: a scientist gets sucked in
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Steve Hamilton is a Michigan State University professor of zoology based at Kellogg Biological Station, and president of the Kalamazoo River Watershed Council.
He became deeply involved in cleaning up oil that spilled last July in wetlands near Marshall, MI, and he described the experience at a recent seminar.
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Terrestrial Terror Round 1: Insect wars
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Editor’s note: Great Lakes SmackDown Terrestrial Terror is an ongoing Great Lakes Echo series. Brackets can be filled out until Friday, March 18. Find more information here. By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
They stink, they sting and bore holes — it’s time for the insects to fight the battle of the bug. EMERALD ASH BORER vs.
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Great Lakes SmackDown! Terrestrial Terror
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By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
Welcome to the Great Lakes SmackDown! Terrestrial Terror
Which terrestrial invasive species is the most ecologically destructive to the Great Lakes region? We want you to tell us. We’ll follow the NCAA tournament and pit 16 of the most formidable terrestrial invasive species against each other in “land brawls.” We also threw in a few aquatic wildcard species. We’ll ask biologists, resource managers, invasive species experts and Echo readers to weigh in on each battle.
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Terrestrial Terror Round 1: Bird battles
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Editor’s note: Great Lakes SmackDown! Terrestrial Terror is an ongoing Great Lakes Echo series. Brackets can be filled out until Friday, March 18. Find more information here. By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
Now, the avian competitors take to the ring to fight for the title of most destructive in the Great Lakes region!
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SmackDown Terrestrial Terror: The fighting begins!
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The terrestrial invasives (and some aquatic wildcards) step up to the plate in the Great Lakes SmackDown! Terrestrial Terror. The bouts begin with a battle of the birds.
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Playing with your food can improve your health
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About 25 percent to 29 percent of adults in the Great Lakes region are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics. Playing with their potatoes might just be what the doctor ordered.