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(MI) Detroit Free Press – Howard Taylor might never have started his own theme park if his wife hadn’t reached her limit with the junk strewn about their yard. “I bought an old sawmill in 1991 and had the pieces spread out everywhere,” said Howard Taylor, who with his wife, Gloria, has created Wellington Farm Park, where visitors can tour a village that re-creates life on the Depression-era farm he knew as a child. More
(MI) The Detroit News – Nationwide, 1 million dove hunters will spend more than $1 billion on lodging, licenses and supplies. None of it will be spent in Michigan. Forty states allow dove hunting. And while Texans are the most fanatical, the dove season is a much anticipated gateway to fall hunting in many other places. More
(NY) The New York Times -South of the Belt Parkway near Exit 15 in Brooklyn, approaching Kennedy International Airport an unassuming hill slopes upward, dotted with small, scraggly trees and bushes. A quarter-century ago, the hill was a more memorable sight. It was the Fountain Avenue Landfill. More
(ON) The Globe and Mail – Imagine a train car suspended high above traffic that could reach speeds of 250 kilometres per hour and get you from Quebec City to Montreal in less than an hour. Each car in the inverted monorail system could transport 60 to 75 passengers and would be powered by 16 in-wheel electric engine motors. No need for expensive fuel – just clean, affordable electricity, its promoters say. More
(OH) Cleveland Plain-Dealer – Fifteen feet above the pavement at Broadway and Orange Avenue, a white-metal battalion of computerized monitors is measuring and analyzing our dirty downtown skies as never before.
More than a dozen humming machines — half of them the city of Cleveland’s existing equipment, the other half installed last month by U.S. EPA researchers — stand in tight formation across a new wooden deck atop the R.T. Craig building. More
(MI) The Bay City Times – State and local officials involved with the Saginaw Bay Coastal Initiative are looking at the Truxor, an amphibious vehicle, to clear muck that gathers at the shoreline and remains suspended in the water at the public beach in Bangor Township. Charlie Bauer, with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s Water Bureau, gave a presentation on the Truxor at a meeting this morning at the state park Visitor Center. More
(MI) Michigan Tech News – The Great Lakes are many things: bodies of water, sources of life, a story and a poem. “Waterlife,” a film that follows the flow of the water in the Great Lakes from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean, captures the significance of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes ecosystem in a compelling, feature-length documentary. Michigan Tech’s Center for Water and Society is sponsoring a free showing of the film at 7 pm Wednesday, Sept. 9, in the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building, Room 641. It has only been shown once before in Michigan, at the Traverse City Film Festival.
(MI) The Flint Journal – They came, they saw…and they ate the cherry tomatoes. More than 160 people showed up at the Flint Farmers’ Market Tuesday night to pack a caravan of buses for a free tour of Flint’s booming urban agriculture movement. Not even the organizers expected so much interest and enthusiasm for the first Edible Flint Food Garden Tour. More
(MI) The Alpena News – Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council members were among the first to get a look at the sanctuary’s final management plan during its official release on Tuesday. Copies of the document were distributed during the council’s Tuesday evening meeting. The printed version is 42 pages and represents a culmination of nearly three years of work. More
(IL) Chicago Tribune – An environmental group says data from the Environmental Protection Agency show water at many beaches in the United States is polluted, causing beach closings and advisory days. The Chicago-based Natural Resources Defense Council issued its annual beach water quality report on Wednesday. The report found that ocean, bay and Great Lakes beaches nationwide can have contaminated water. The group says conditions are worse along the Great Lakes. More