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Hunting booms as a respite from COVID-19, game processors say
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Business is booming for game processors this hunting season.
Water
Great Lakes produce new record for waterspouts in one week
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The Great Lakes produced a new high record in its number of 232 waterspouts from Sept. 28 through Oct. 4.
Echo
Thoughts of this river
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Noah Davis’ new book, Of This River is available from Michigan State University Press.
contamination
Detroit River cleanup brings new look to Motor City
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A $2.9 million cleanup of contaminated sediments along the Detroit River will help bring a new look to the Motor City and set the stage for the completion of the Riverwalk by linking two popular waterfront parks.
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Concerns about the Great Lakes increase, while Ontario loons decrease
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Ontario loons are declining, with fewer chicks being born, according to a new study that took four decades and hundreds of researchers.
drownings
Is Lake Michigan the most dangerous Great Lake?
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Jamie Racklyeft, the executive director of the Great Lakes Water Safety Consortium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said the reason Lake Michigan has the most drownings among the Great Lakes is a combination of wind direction and tourism.
contamination
A 22-year mission to restore a Pennsylvania bay
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After more than two decades of cleanup and community efforts, Lake Erie’s Presque Isle Bay became the second heavily contaminated place in the United States to be removed from the Great Lakes toxic waters list.
Land
Study suggests rural strategies help economies of shrinking cities
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You won’t find barns and silos in Detroit. Or herds of cattle. Or fields of soybeans, sugar beets or wheat. Even so, much of the city is now “ruralized,” a new study says, a phenomenon also visible in Flint, Pontiac and Saginaw.
Echo
Neighbors at war
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By Eric Freedman
Jennifer Cook initially got along amicably with her neighbors in rural Bartholomew County, Indiana. But that relationship went downhill when the neighbors, Brian and Katrina Brumley, bought a Great Pyrenees puppy to protect their poultry, goats, miniature horse and miniature donkey from coyotes, foxes and bobcats, according to legal documents in Cook’s unsuccessful appeal of her stalking conviction for harassing the Brumleys with recorded animal noises. The dog, which reached 130 pounds, sometimes broke free of its restraints, ran loose, defecated in Cook’s yard and barked while confined, but it didn’t bite anyone or act aggressively, the Indiana Court of Appeals said in a recent opinion. “In an effort to muffle the barking, the Brumleys tried moving the dog to various areas on the property farther from Cook’s house,” the court said. To no avail.
Recreation
Hunters need to avoid contaminated game
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To keep healthy this fall, deer hunters have more to worry about than just COVID-19 and the flu. On the beware list: a group of chemicals known as PFAS and lead from ammunition.