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Photo Friday: Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Dunes, plovers and culture.
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Mr. Great Lakes on conservation volunteers and clean energy financing
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Plus, a look at recreational use and stress on the Saginaw Bay area.
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Scientists play catch up as new chemicals contaminate Great Lakes birds
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Experts say new flame retardants and stain repellents in Great Lakes wildlife offer further evidence of a broken regulatory system.
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Weevils, invasive plants add to woes of the Pitcher’s thistle
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Greenhouse seedlings are needed to preserve the plant that was federally listed as threatened in 1988.
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Enbridge practices oil containment at controversial pipeline crossing Straits of Mackinac
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“Everyone needs insurance,” said Al Monaco, the chief executive officer of Enbridge Inc. “This isn’t cheap insurance either.”
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Could fish farm expansion in Michigan hurt the Great Lakes?
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There’s a concern that wild populations of lake trout could be impacted by the expansion of fish farming in the Great Lakes.
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EPA exec.: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative scores successes
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A senior adviser to the EPA administrator describes the impact of federal funding to restore the Great Lakes.
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The dune is moving! The dune is moving!
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Climate change among the factors implicated in the shifting sands of Lake Michigan’s Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
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Great Lakes month in review: nuclear waste, pipelines, algae
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Current State reviews this month’s biggest environmental stories from around the basin, including algae blooms, nuclear waste and oil pipelines.