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Recently Port officials reported it supports nearly 18,000 jobs and $1.8 billion in economic activity every year, beating the number of the glitzier money drawers by hundreds of millions.
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After years of complaints about murky water, village officials unanimously voted to contract out to another water source for drinking water. The company gets its water from Lake Ontario.
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Another facility has been added to the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program's growing list of nutrient service providers to achieve certified status. The voluntary certification program is a concentrated effort by the agriculture industry to significantly reduce and prevent applied nutrients from running off fields, which has contributed to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.
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A waterfront access advocate has filed a formal appeal with the city of Erie's Zoning Office, contending that 1,100 feet of new public walkway along the former GAF Materials Corp. property on the city's west bayfront does not comply with city zoning laws.
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The Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative webinar series focuses on invasive Phragmites in the Great Lakes region, and encourages dialogue and technology transfer. Register now for the next free webinar, Effects of Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen Pollution on Phragmites austrailis, which will take place Nov. 12.
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Wisconsin natural resources officials say they've identified a genetic sample indicating invasive Asian carp may have found their way into the Fox River in the Green Bay area.
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report shows the wolf population in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin has grown.
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St. Lawrence County's operations committee is supporting a proposed water plan that would regulate flows and levels on the St. Lawrence River.
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The St. Regis river was one of several waterways in St. Lawrence and Franklin counties where the N.Y. DEC released lake sturgeon that had been shipped from Wisconsin.
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The future, present, and past of marine shipping on the Great Lakes was discussed at length at luncheon held in Goderich, ON last week.
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During the late summer and early fall, the water level on the Great Lakes usually drops several inches. This year, three of those lakes, Superior, Michigan and Huron, have seen the opposite happen - rising water levels.
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The latest in a series of Indiana Department of Natural Resources posters celebrates both the Grand and Little Calumet rivers.
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Provincial funding has allowed phragmites fighters in Lambton Shores, Ont., to make progress in battling the invasive reed in a significant wetland just west of Kettle and Stony Point.
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The Salmon River Fish Hatchery near Pulaski, N.Y., was originally constructed to help rebuild the Great Lakes fishery. Today, the fishery is thriving and is used to raise steelhead, Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, brown trout and landlocked salmon.
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NOAA Fisheries is making available roughly $16.7 million, through President Obama's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, for habitat restoration projects in severely degraded areas of the Great Lakes. Funded projects are spread throughout Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and New York.
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Beginning today, the New York Power Authority will be removing docks and buoys along the St. Lawrence River for the winter.
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Lake Huron was, and is now again, way above what is regarded as "chart datum" by the Canadian Coast Guard -- a big change from a couple of summer's ago when we all were complaining about the lake's low level.
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There's some dispute over whether Niagara Falls is still considered the 'Honeymoon Capital of the World.'
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In Detroit -- a city under emergency management that is reeling from decades of deindustrialization and neighborhood decay -- the poorest are losing access to water.
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"Luck of the Draw -- The Mataafa Story" chronicles the shi's November 1905 shipwreck just offshore from Duluth with the loss of nine lives.
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The phosphorus-fueled harmful algal blooms, or HABs, around western Lake Erie has provoked changes in the fish populations.
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The N.Y. state Department of Environmental Conservation is accepting public comments on a series of proposed changes to the state's freshwater fishing regulations.
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Steel shipments are up at the Port of Milwaukee by 47 percent through September.
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The phosphorus-fueled harmful algal blooms, or HABs, around western Lake Erie has provoked changes in the fish populations of Lake Erie.
2014 Michigan Invasive Species Grants Program
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The Michigan Departments of Natural Resources, Environmental Quality, and Agriculture and Rural Development have announce the 2014 Michigan Invasive Species Grants Program (MISGP). Two webinars to review the application focus areas and requirements, and provide the opportunity for applicants to ask questions, will be held.
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