Nearshore
Fort Mackinac celebrates 200 years in American hands
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The Mackinac State Historic Parks system is celebrating Fort Mackinac’s bicentennial.
Land
Mr. Great Lakes on Michigan lighthouse sale, conservation and community solar
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Mr. Great Lakes covers lighthouses, conserved land and a new community solar program.
Nearshore
Great Lakes govs whiff on algae; can they hit a diversion home run?
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This class of Great Lakes governors has one more shot at prioritizing the region’s water interests over those of their respective states.
Nearshore
Record rains could produce record algae; farmers gain support for longterm solution
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Michigan official: The problem didn’t happen overnight and won’t get fixed overnight
Nearshore
Help Echo justify buying a news-gathering submarine
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By David Poulson
Here at Echo we’ve written lots about drones and even experimented with using them as a potential news-reporting platform. It’s challenging to take the concept very far as federal authorities try to sort through how to regulate them. Now there may be a way to do something similar underwater. TT Robotix has indicated it will come out with a remotely controlled submersible capable of taking a Go-Pro camera more than 30 feet under water. It can remotely take still and video images and even stream what the camera sees as it sees it.
Nearshore
Farmers gain access to new federal algae-fighting funds
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Farmers from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana will share $17.5 million to reduce phosphorus pollution in Lake Erie.
Nearshore
Mr. Great Lakes on beach conditions, contaminants and wildlife
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Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
Nearshore
Michigan landowners partner with feds on wetland restorations
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The Fish and Wildlife Partners program pairs private landowners with federal wetland experts to help restore some of Michigan’s drained wetlands.
Nearshore
From mapmakers to moles, North Shore traces a Superior coast legacy
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A decade of deep archival research and on-the-ground observation lends perspective to a new environmental history in this new book.
Nearshore
Cannons from Chicken Bone Reef help solve Great Lakes mysteries
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Research on six 19th-century British canons recovered from the Detroit River is giving new information about colonial-era militarization of the Great Lakes region.