Water
Online database tracks Great Lakes restoration efforts
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Clickable map details Great Lakes Restoration Initiative projects.
Nearshore
EPA exec.: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative scores successes
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A senior adviser to the EPA administrator describes the impact of federal funding to restore the Great Lakes.
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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.
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Great Lakes Commission launches restoration database
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You can now track progress on restoring the Great Lakes at a new database provided by the Great Lakes Commission. It focuses on conservation plans implemented by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative over the past three years, and includes several projects in each of the eight Great Lakes states. The initiative, which is managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, has received more than $220 million since 2010 for wildlife restoration. It has led to hundreds of different environmental endeavors ranging from turtle protection research in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to a dam removal in eastern New York. The database contains fact sheets on all work from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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Researchers map Great Lakes needs, services
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The idea is to find the best places to get the most value from investing in environmental restoration.
The project examines the intersection of multiple problems with their impact on the services provided by the environment.
One finding: The places most valued by people are the most at risk.
Land
Stop invasive species: Wash your dog
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Meet comedian Marty Milfoil, one of the stars of a campaign to teach waterfowl hunters how they can help limit the spread of invasive species.
The Wildlife Forever campaign includes billboards and public service announcements.
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It takes more than money to restore a watershed
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President Obama’s effort to jumpstart long-overdue cleanup projects could be in trouble. Insiders wonder if the new Congress will set the budgetary needle closer to zero. But it will take more than money for the lakes to reach their potential.
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The EPA’s Great Lakes Action Plan: What’s changed since December?
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday released its final version of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan. The plan spells out the agency’s goals and benchmarks for fixing up the world’s largest freshwater system through 2014. The document updates a draft of the plan that was released in December and was open to public comment until Jan. 8. The EPA pulled the old version from its Web site, but since I had a copy sitting on my hard drive, I though I’d take a look at what’s changed.
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Great Lakes a step closer to recovery
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(WI) Sheboygan Press – The Great Lakes got a huge shot in the arm last week when President Obama signed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. This measure commits $475 million to a restoration and recovery program for the largest source of freshwater in the world. It also makes the federal government and the eight states that border Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario partners in the effort. More
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Great Lakes aid isn’t a cure-all
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(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – A Great Lakes restoration plan hatched by President Barack Obama in the heat of last year’s campaign has been embraced as a prescription to heal centuries of pollution and mismanagement. But while the federal government is about to spend up to $475 million toward a restoration program that ultimately could cost tens of billions of dollars, assaults continue on the world’s largest freshwater system. And the plan does little or nothing to stop them by calling for tough new laws and regulations, or ensuring that existing rules be enforced. More