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Grant program to fight Michigan invaders
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Program battles harmful plants and animals.
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Scandal and slavery by Lake Minnetonka
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Eric Dregni’s “By the Waters of Minnetonka” sheds light on the region’s rich history of European settlers, wealthy vacationers and scandal.
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New tool helps visualize how climate change could affect the Great Lakes
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A new web tool, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows how the Great Lakes would look in different climate change situations.
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Lake Erie isn’t only lake with algae headaches; Lake Ontario also on the hook
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Last summer’s Toledo water woes is a warning to the entire Great Lakes community.
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Goosebuster and BirdXPeller fight disease from bird droppings
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It’s an aerial defense of human health.
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Where Wright went right — and wrong — on the lake
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This Lake Erie home is a spectacular attempt at tying architecture into a Great Lakes shoreline environment.
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Flash point: The lighthouse Lake Superior nearly swallowed
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We asked Great Lakes photographers to send us some of their favorite or toughest Great Lakes shots and a bit of a story behind the picture. This image and explanation are by David Marvin. Most people have never heard of the Crisp Point Lighthouse, much less ever visited it. It stands on the Lake Superior shore fourteen miles west of Whitefish Point, connected to the rest of the world by only a winding seasonal gravel road. Originally, Crisp Point housed only a lifesaving station, starting in 1876.
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Lake’s legal saga unresolved after challenge to Minnesota summer camp rejected
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld an Itasca County decision that no environmental impact statement is required to build a proposed summer camp and retreat on Deer Lake.
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Poll: A fifth of Michigan residents not Great Lakes wet yet
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Michigan residents may live in a basin containing nearly 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, but more than 21 percent failed to boat, swim or wade in a Great Lake in the past five years, according to a recent poll conducted by Lansing-based Public Sector Consultants. Here’s what else the poll revealed:
Only 13.5 percent of Michigan potential voters went to every lake during the past five years. Almost 21 percent visited one lake. Almost 19 percent visited two lakes. A little more than 16 percent visited three lakes.
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Photo Friday: June dawn at Middle Bass Island
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Have an environmental image you’ve taken somewhere within the Great Lakes region and that you’d like to submit for Echo’s Photo Friday series? Send it to greatlakesecho@gmail.com along with the photographer’s name and town of residence, approximate date it was taken, where it was taken and a little bit of description of what we’re looking at. Context such as how you happened to take it, whether there were physical or technical challenges in capturing it or any other “story behind the picture” is also helpful.