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Researchers are developing software to track the sale of invasive species on the Internet.
Often sellers and buyers of these plants and animals that can harm the environment are unaware that such sales are illegal.
All photos taken at Kensington Metropolitan Park in Milford, Mich.
Tips to avoid an animal attack – with a Great Lakes twist.
Michigan officials are asking residents to help shoot and kill 13,500 mute swans.
The fate of all Lake Ontario fish depends on alewives in one way or another. But officials must balance the health of non-native, but popular, sport fish and native species.
A small, aphid-like insect was recently found infesting a stand of hemlock trees in south central Ohio and has increased fears that it is spreading.
By Jon Gaskell
Capital News Service
LANSING— Beware the Northern snakehead. Beware the inland silverside. And beware a host of other invasive species prompting a recent report recommending spending billions to separate the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes. The Asian carp is the media darling that gets all the attention. But according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, there are 39 other “high-risk invasive species” that might migrate through Chicago waterways and have the potential to wreak ruin on native ecosystems.
Of these species, 10 could potentially cause huge environmental damage, the agency said. “Asian carp are sort of the canary in the coal mine,” said Jared Teutsch of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes.
Atlantic salmon once thrived in Lake Ontario but went extinct when their habitat and spawning grounds were ruined. U.S. and Canadian scientists are now trying to bring the species back.
A mini-invader that latches onto Great Lakes fish has found its way into Lake Erie.
Scientists aren’t sure what impact they will have, if any, or how the seemingly innocuous little copepods got here.
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.