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This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. web survey
The answer to the previous question: Lake Superior water levels have been governed by the International Board of Control, established in 1914 by the International Joint Commission.
Last year, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative began producing a series of educational videos about invasive species in the Great Lakes for the National Park Service. New videos have been uploaded this spring and summer, and you can watch the entire “Little Things, Big Problems” series here on Echo. This video discusses how invasive plants can be harmful to the native vegetation in Great Lakes parks.
Detroit’s new RTA, road funding at the top of Michigan’s transportation issues by Great Lakes Echo
There is no shortage of transportation issues to discuss here in Michigan. After 40 years and 23 attempts, metro Detroit finally has a Regional Transportation Authority. At the top of Governor Snyder’s agenda is a new road funding bill, but will the legislature provide the funds he says he needs to make the necessary improvements? Tim Fischer is the deputy policy director at the Michigan Environmental Council and specializes in transportation infrastructure. He helps us sort out some of Michigan’s most pressing transportation issues.
This is part of our “Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers” feature, where we will post Great Lakes trivia throughout the month. Check back for the answers – and new questions. surveys & polls
To celebrate over four years of Echo’s (and our readers’) continued quest for knowledge and many years of all of our collective devotion to these lakes, we are very pleased to announce a very special month-long feature coming up here at Echo: Jeopardy in July for Lake Lovers! Throughout each week in July, we will post trivia questions dedicated to a specific lake to see how well you know our Great Lakes. Each question that follows will also contain the answer to the previous question and a breakdown of the polls to show how well you, the readers, did and explain the answers. The schedule is as follows:
Week One: Lake Superior
Week Two: Lake Huron
Week Three: Lake Michigan
Week Four: Lake Erie
Week Five: Lake Ontario
We hope you enjoy playing – and be sure to check back all throughout July so you don’t miss your chance to show us how much you know!
Recently Great Lakes Echo reported that Outside Magazine snubbed the Great Lakes region when nominating the most livable, active cities in the U.S. for their “Best Towns 2013” feature. We asked you to nominate the best towns of the Great Lake region. Now you can vote on them, write-in another place or justify your choices below. online polls
Birders, boaters, hikers, fishermen, beach lovers, and swimmers all have something in common: They draw attention to Great Lakes ecology through their activities at or near the shoreline. Now they have zombies helping them out. In what might be one of the wackiest and most unorthodox ways of getting people to reconnect with nature, early (cheaper) registration for an event billed as the Lake Eerie (not a typo, folks) Zombie Mud Run ends June 30. The race is Sept. 14 at East Sandusky Bay Erie Metropark in Sandusky, Ohio.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
This week Kart discusses research on asian carp, algae and nutrients in the Saginaw Bay and LEED certification for Delta College. Text at Mr Great Lakes
‘Wet Weather’ sewer project aims to save Lansing $230 million by Great Lakes Echo
Lansing residents have a chance to weigh in on the latest suggestion for dealing with city sewage and stormwater. City administrators say the so-called “Wet Weather” project would combine Lansing’s 20-year old CSO, or “combined sewage overflow” project, with two other similar ones involving sanitary sewer overflow and stormwater. Chad Gamble is the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Public Service for the city, and he supports the “Wet Weather” project. He and others maintain the three initiatives can be successfully combined and would save taxpayers approximately $350 million dollars.