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Efforts to revive populations of Michigan’s threatened lake sturgeon through strategic stocking underwent an uptick this year. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. View the full article

Environmentalists on Canada’s Manatoulin Island are expressing concern over the impact of the Lake Huron water bombing range, which is used to train combat pilots from nations all over the world. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor. View the full article

Starting around 1979, smelt numbers in Lake Superior plummeted. But because the smelt in Lake Superior are an invasive species, their decline is actually a sign that the lake is becoming healthier, ecologically speaking. Read the full story by FiveThirtyEight. View the full article

Harmful algal blooms have changed the way many Lake Erie recreational anglers and charter captains fish, and aesthetics were the unifying concern causing the shift in behavior. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

There is no greater threat to Great Lakes fisheries and wetland habitats than Asian carp. If we let Asian carp get into the Great Lakes on our watch, we will have failed current and future generations. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times. View the full article

A new rule from the United States Coast Guard is intended to better protect the Great Lakes from oil spills. The Coast Guard named the Straits of Mackinac a “no anchor” zone. This prohibits boats from dropping anchor in the area. Read the full story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

In Ohio, about 23 percent of Toledo’s 10-year, $500 million project to modernize the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant is complete, and construction is under way on another 44 percent of it. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade. View the full article

A ship that sunk nearly 200 years ago in Lake Erie has finally been identified. Shipwreck hunters based in Cleveland, Ohio, have been studying the remains of the ship and believe it to be the doomed vessel known as the Lake Serpent. Read the full story by the Daily Mail. View the full article

A Mackinac Island ferry operator questioned Monday why Enbridge Energy failed to shut down its pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac in September during rough weather that he believed should have prompted a closure. Read the full story by The Detroit News. View the full article

There has been no recent change in the number of land conservancies throughout Michigan, but there has been a steady expansion of already established lands, increasing by at least 10,000 acres every year since 2013. Read the full story by The Mining Journal. View the full article

When it comes to surfing the Great Lakes, women can “rip” just as hard as the guys, and the community of female surfers and standup paddleboarders keeps growing. Read the full story by The Welland Tribune. View the full article

U.S. shipping on the Great Lakes was down in September, but those low numbers shouldn’t be a cause for concern, spokespeople from the Duluth Seaway Port Authority and Interlake Steamship Company said. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation staff are busy this month stocking lake sturgeon in a number of state waterways, in addition to tagging some for research and tracking purposes. Read the full story by Post-Standard. View the full article

Foam loaded with the potentially health-harming “forever chemicals” known as PFAS is coating the waters surrounding the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, but the U.S. Air Force is not acting to stop the contaminated groundwater plumes that the Michigan DEQ has identified as the source of the foam. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

Dan Egan isn’t sure if his book, “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” has had an impact on lawmakers who might otherwise take protections away from the lakes. But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, whose book is the focus of a University of Wisconsin campus reading program, has seen some positive signs, at least in terms of public awareness. Read the full story by the Wisconsin State Journal. View the full article

Three billion-dollar infrastructure projects – a new international bridge between Detroit and Windsor, the Line 5 tunnel project, and the likely construction of a new Poe-sized Soo Lock – mark a success in the final days of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s administration. The projects should have lasting economic and environmental benefits for the region. Read the full story by the Detroit News. View the full article

Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk, located along the western edge of Lake Michigan in Indiana, has been heralded as a lakefront restoration poster child and an example of regional cooperation. However, erosion from high lake levels and increasingly intense storms is threatening the future of the park. Read the full story by the Post-Tribune. View the full article

Using scientific instruments such as side-scan sonar, magnetometers and sub-bottom profilers, archaeologists are discovering shipwrecks as well as features of ancient landscapes in Lake Erie that were inundated by rising lake levels. Read the full story by the Columbus Dispatch. View the full article

The Ohio Statehouse is stalling on protecting Lake Erie from pollution that the Maumee River’s watershed pumps into the lake. Read the full story by the Columbus Dispatch. View the full article

Officials at Isle Royale National Park say they’ve wrapped up the first phase of a multi-year effort to rebuild the gray wolf population on Lake Superior’s largest island. Read the full story by the Associated Press. View the full article

Wisconsin’s 230 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline make it an attractive, yet underrated, travel destination for visitors to the Midwest. Read the full story by The Telegraph. View the full article

UM researchers will work with researchers from Penn State University and the University of Delaware on the three-year project that will test how to best grow algae, transform it into diesel fuel and maximize its performance during the combustion process. The goal is to create biofuels that work in existing diesel engines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The Ohio EPA wants to find productive uses for dredged material from Lake Erie through beach replenishment, habitat restoration, landscaping, road construction, land reclamation, landfill cover and manufacture of products such as concrete, brick, block and topsoil. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer. View the full article

An Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission task force is deliberating whether the commission should concur with Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s executive order to declare watersheds in the Maumee River Basin as “distressed.” The issue isn’t whether there’s a problem — task force members and advisors agree there is — but whether the science is clear on a plan of action. Read the full story by Farm and Dairy. View the full article

A new water infrastructure bill approved by Congress and sent to President Trump to be signed into law has important provisions to protect clean water, including increasing the size of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and appropriating funds for a for a Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. View the full article