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The Ohio wind turbine project's potential to create jobs and renewable energy makes its price tag and construction challenge worth meeting. More...
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In New York state, the wine and grape industry has become an important part of the economy and can provide an estimated 18,000 jobs statewide. More...
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Budget shortfalls are to blame for the planned loss of 37 wildlife management jobs in states where there are over 30 areas under the organization's supervision. More...
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Various species of gulls stay on the Great Lakes through the winter, giving bird watchers an opportunity to study their behavior. More...
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The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement hasn't been significantly updated since 1987, and revising it could help address emerging issues. More...
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Longstanding questions about whether the state could one day kick them out have been settled for hundreds of cottage owners in two popular Michigan waterfront playgrounds. More...
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Waterfront enhancement projects and creation of new nature areas are key parts of a popular civic rediscovery of Lake Ontario. More...
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There are more than 1,300 public boating access sites and over 80 harbors and marinas throughout the state of Michigan. This website gives you the ability to locate and map these sites and view related information, including number of available ramps, fees, parking, handicap accessibility, local watercraft controls, lake depth and more. More...
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Fishing in January in the Great Lakes region is normally accomplished with shanties and augers, not boats and motors. More...
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Despite protests, the Canadian government's Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office is pressing ahead to relocate a dump on Lake Ontario's shoreline. More...
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Minnesota's House Environment and Natural Resources Committee has unanimously passed a bill approving the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact. More...
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Late January is particularly sweet in Ontario's wine country. Sweet enough that more than 50,000 people will converge on the heart of wine country — the Niagara Peninsula, across the border at the falls — during the next two weekends to celebrate. More...
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At a special meeting Tuesday, the Marquette City Commission took steps to protect two streams that flow through the city and empty into Lake Superior. More...
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Long considered one of the oldest settlements in southeast Michigan and recently tagged as "Maritime Capital of the Great Lakes," Port Huron was incorporated as a city on Feb. 4, 1857. More...
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With little or no ice so far this winter in the St. Lawrence River system, the lack of cold and snow is proving to be a boon for transporters of all stripes across Quebec. More...
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Conservation Ontario represents a network of 36 Conservation Authorities, community-based environmental organizations dedicated to conserving, restoring, developing and managing natural resources on a watershed basis. More...
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Northern Ohio eagle watchers are getting another venue for tracking the raptors in an area that was previously off-limits during nesting season. More...
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More than $102,000 has been awarded to seven research projects that will benefit Lake Erie and its environmental and economic resources, according to the Ohio Lake Erie Commission. More...
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Following a second round of bids because the first were too costly, trustees of the North Shore Sanitary District accepted an $8.1 million low bid to construct a Lake Forest sewage overflow basin on the Lake Michigan shoreline. More...
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White County commissioners approved rezoning 270 acres to permit construction of an ethanol plant just outside the northern Indiana town dubbed Biotown USA for a project aimed at having all its energy come from renewable sources. More...
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Michigan, environmentalists criticize winter manure spraying
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State regulators and environmental activists are criticizing operators of two dairy megafarms in southern Michigan for spraying manure-filled liquid waste in the air and piping it into fields in violation of a court order. More... -
In states with deer herds affected by Chronic Wasting Disease, wildlife officials have encouraged hunters to help them thin the population. But some wardens worry that poachers are taking this as an invitation to bag game any way they can. More...
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With the start of the new year, Michigan drivers have access to new license plates. The Great Lakes Splendor plate, or “Bridge†plate, which has a rising sun over the Mackinac Bridge on it, is being replaced with a new graphic plate, Spectacular Peninsulas. More...
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Beech bark disease has taken hold in the Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Scientists expect the disease eventually will kill most of the state’s beeches, changing the environment in ways as yet uncertain. More...
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This summer, a Canadian film crew will make its way to the Bad River Reservation to film part of an IMAX movie detailing the "Wonders of the Great Lakes." More...