Echo
The Great Lakes’ Sisyphean problem
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A Sisyphean task is one that is “endless and ineffective.”
Does protecting the Great Lakes fall under this definition?
Climate
Report: Climate change threatens to alter big game in Michigan
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Throughout the 20th century large investments of time and money were made to help restore big game populations across the U.S.
Many of these efforts were successful and continue today. But they may be short lived.
Echo
Realtor misled buyers of contaminated Lake Michigan condo, court says
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A couple who bought a South Haven condo built on contaminated land two blocks from Lake Michigan is entitled to about $470,000 in damages, according to the Court of Appeals.
The site of the house was formerly a factory that made coffins, gun stocks and pipe organs – and left behind chemicals.
Echo
Radar, algorithm analyze Great Lakes ice for boats, fisheries, forecasters
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Think all ice is the same?
That’s not the case on the Great Lakes.
And now scientists have found out how to detect the differences.
With math.
Water
Interview: Author Michael Schumacher on ‘November’s Fury’
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Just in time for the 100th anniversary, Great Lakes author Michael Schumacher has penned “November’s Fury,” a comprehensive account of the devastating Great Storm of 1913.
Echo
Citizen rain collectors help measure storm threats
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Rain and snow fall have long been difficult to monitor comprehensively.
But that’s less of a problem thanks to a simple rain gauge and citizen participation through a national group known as CoCoRaHS.
Wildlife
Mr. Great Lakes: Bats, environmental art and a field guide to Saginaw Bay
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Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
Nov. 15, 2013 – The Environment Report – Delta Q 90.1 FM – Jeff Kart – Mr. Great Lakes by jeffkart
This week, Kart discusses two new bat species, an art contest through NOAA and the new Saginaw Basin Field Guide. Text at Mr. Great Lakes
Echo
Green Gridirons: University of Illinois
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A football stadium may have green grass but does it have green habits? Each week, Great Lakes Echo highlights a Big Ten football stadium’s attempts to do the most to impact the environment the least. All schools have information on the stadium’s diversion rate – the amount of waste recycled instead of put in a landfill. Stadium: Memorial Stadium
School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Built: 1922
Capacity: 60,670
2012 diversion rate: 84.50 throughout campus; n/a for stadium only
Scouting report: “We are just starting our green initiative out for the stadium,” said Lenny Willis, director of athletic facilities at the University of Illinois. The university plans to collaborate with the campus to start a stadium-specific program, with recycling bins at the gates and in parking lots.
Wildlife
Podcast: John Vucetich on Michigan’s wolf hunt, which begins today
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We talked to John Vucetich, a wildlife biologist and professor at Michigan Technological University, last month about Michigan’s first-ever wolf hunt, which begins today.
His answers are featured in our latest podcast.