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Great Lakes islands have unique wildlife, landscape and environmental challenges
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Great Lakes islands’ seclusion and geographic distinctiveness present unique environmental problems.
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Great Lakes: A ship with no name in search of a captain
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Can the Great Lakes region truly collaborate for the greater good of the eight states … or will it continue to play in a zero sum economic game by competing with each other while the region’s combined strengths go untapped?
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Organizations encourage creative uses for dead city trees
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For decades, dead city trees have had a dreadful fate — the wood chipper.
But some Michigan organizations and businesses are fostering a new mentality in cities — one that sees more than just dead wood.
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Help protect habitat for migrating birds
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Make your yard a sanctuary for migrating birds with help from the Wisconsin Stopover Initiative. The initiative, a partnership of government agencies, private organizations, businesses and bird lovers, helps identify and protect the places migratory birds visit as they travel north and south. These in between habitats are called stopover sites. Protecting stopover sites at home is easy with these tips listed by the initiative. Remove invasive plants (the ones not native to your area) and preserve native trees and shrubs on your property.
Wildlife
Camera lovin’ cougar keeps strutting around Michigan’s UP
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For years there was great disagreement about the presence of cougars in Michigan, and now one photogenic cat keeps dismissing the naysayers by strutting in front of trail cameras in the Upper Peninsula. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirmed a radio-collared cougar on Nov. 17 caught on camera in northern Houghton County. They consider it to be the same one caught on camera twice before. “This is the third time this animal has been captured on trail cameras in the Upper Peninsula,” said Adam Bump in a prepared statement.
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Enter your photos in Wisconsin Great Lakes calendar
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Great Lakes photographers have the opportunity to have their work displayed in the 2012-2013 Wisconsin’s Great Lakes Calendar published by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The Great Lakes Photo Contest has four entry categories: natural features and wildlife, people enjoying Wisconsin’s Great Lakes, historic and cultural features and lake protection activities. Contestants can submit up to three photos. The contest is open through Feb. 1, 2012.
Land
Disease that attacks black walnut trees sweeps across US
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Following on the heels of an Emerald Ash Borer infestation that wiped out millions of ash trees, a new disease, dubbed Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD), has been decimating black walnuts in the western U.S. — and now it’s spreading east.
Wildlife
Guitars and melodies to stop spreading invaders
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As an angler and mandolin player, I’ve often wondered what it is about the two seemingly disparate hobbies that draws me to them. And I’m not alone. Most anglers I know have an acoustic lying around somewhere, and most guitar pickers I know have some pretty good trout stories. Well, that’s research for another day. But Bret Shaw, an environmental communication specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, is looking to tap into this connection to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species in the Great Lakes region.
Water
Ohio’s compromise to law that would’ve gutted the region’s water compact
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich has proposed a compromise to a controversial law, and the new bill highlights the complexities around the region’s water compact.