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The nearshore encompasses beaches and wetlands. It extends from uplands through the coasts and into the water near the shore.

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More beach, boat access planned from coastal grants

By Lindsay M. McCoy | May 19, 2022

Coastal restoration efforts are underway across the state as recipients of the Michigan Coastal Management Program grants begin work locally. Seventeen awards totaling more than $1.1 million will fund projects and initiatives to protect, preserve and enhance the state’s coastal resources.

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Beaches

Global warming may impact Great Lakes beaches

By Yue Jiang | April 7, 2022

Global warming will produce more frequent high rainfall events in the Upper Great Lakes, which could impact sandy beaches used for recreation.

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Fishing heritage in Leland gets preservation boost

By Lindsay McCoy | January 25, 2022

The National Park Service recently placed Fishtown on the National Register of Historic Places, an official list of over 96,000 historic properties nationwide considered worthy of preservation.

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Sleeping Bear park officials ask visitors to stop building structures on lakeshore

By Max Copeland | December 8, 2021

Park staff say the structures disrupt the natural beach habitat and can even be damaging to some animal species, like the piping plover.

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Beach safety enforcement: too much or too little?

By Danielle James | October 4, 2021

Two pieces of legislation are churning Michigan’s political waters with different approaches to beach safety in state parks.

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Thousand Island Dressing Mystery: Great Lakes origins of one of America’s favorite sauces

By Rachel Duckett | August 4, 2021

In Thousand Islands, New York, near Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada, you can find four different origin stories for Thousand Island dressing, three of which involve a woman named May Irwin.

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Researchers seek volunteers to document coastal erosion in Michigan

By McKoy Scribner | June 23, 2021

Although Great Lakes water levels are down, the risk of coastal erosion remains high, Michigan State University researchers say. Now, the researchers are enlisting “citizen scientists” to assist in helping better understand coastal change.

Contaminants

Massive filter keeps Detroit River contaminants in place

By Brianna M. Lane | March 9, 2021

Thanks to a spongy M&M-like technology, contaminated soil in the Detroit River downstream of the MacArthur Bridge has been contained.

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Ford House collaborates to restore Lake St. Clair shoreline

By Marshall Lee Weimer | March 8, 2021

The former luxury mansion of a Detroit automaker is the site of an attempt to recreate the scarce natural shoreline along Lake St. Clair.

Beaches

Scientists identify genetics of native beach grass to help protect dunes

By Meghan King | February 22, 2021

The seed grant could lead to large scale application across the Great Lakes

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University gives St. Marys River clean, green boost

By Taylor Haelterman | February 9, 2021

High school and community groups will help implement a $250,000 project to prevent pollution from flowing into the river from a new water research center to be built on contaminated soils at Lake Superior State University.

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      Great Lakes Echo recently placed second in the College Newspaper of the Year category of a Michigan Press Association contest.

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