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The piping plover was once common along the shoreline of the Great Lakes. As humans began to recreate along and develop the beaches, piping plover numbers plummeted. Through protection, the species has managed a modest comeback in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by the Herald Palladium. View the full article

The sturgeon is one of the most ancient fish in the Great Lakes and was once abundant in all five lakes. But, like many species, its numbers nosedived thanks to overfishing and habitat destruction. Read the fill story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

Led by members of Indigenous Nations from around the Great Lakes, Water Protectors are camping in Northern Michigan to call for a shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline. Read the full story by Michigan Radio. View the full article

Last week, Ohio celebrated the annual Governor’s Fish Ohio Day, which began as a promotion to plug Lake Erie’s fishing after the troubled lake was declared “dead” by national media in the 1960s. Read the full story by the Columbus Dispatch. View the full article

Concerned citizens and activists gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday for the fourth annual International Rally to Protect the Great Lakes held by the Great Lakes Environmental Alliance. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald. View the full article

Money for a new lock at Sault Ste. Marie has begun flowing through Congress on its way toward building the critically overdue twin to the Poe Lock. Read the full story by the Port Huron Times Herald. View the full article

Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI 7th District) welcomed Andrew Wheeler, Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to the Western Lake Erie Basin in Monroe County Friday to discuss protecting the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WTVB – Coldwater, MI. View the full article

Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) spent his Saturday on Lake Erie and along its coast getting updates from experts and hosting a roundtable in Oak Harbor on issues the lake continues to face. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald. View the full article

The 2008 Great Lakes Compact prevents distant dry places from siphoning off Great Lakes water. But will the agreement hold up in the face of growing demand? Read the full story by Ensia. View the full article

The EPA visited Lockport, New York, on Thursday for a public meeting to propose a plan to remove lead-contaminated soil. Residents along 18 Mile Creek said the remediation is moving too slowly and risking their health. Read the full story by WIVB-TV – Lockport, NY. View the full article

The Huron-to-Erie Corridor Drinking Water Protection Network, a long dormant drinking water monitoring network stretching from Lake Huron to Lake Erie, is getting a second chance. Read the full story by The Times Herald. View the full article

In Michigan, thousands of people float down the St. Clair River during the Port Huron Float Down, an annual summer event that was restarted in 2008 after a twenty-year hiatus. Read the full story by The Times Herald. View the full article

Bipartisan supporters of turning the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore into the Hoosier State’s first national park are undeterred by the Trump administration’s opposition to the proposed change. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

In the latest round of the ongoing legal battle in Illinois between Evanston and Skokie over water rates, Evanston filed a motion Tuesday seeking to have the federal lawsuit filed by Skokie earlier this summer dismissed. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune. View the full article

The legal challenge to the Racine, Wisconsin, plan to divert Great Lakes water to the Foxconn industrial complex has advanced, with the notice of a pre-hearing conference date and the addition of prominent petitioners. Read the full story by The Wisconsin Gazette. View the full article

According to a news release from the Chamber of Marine Commerce, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence shipping continues to bounce back after a slow start. Read the full story by The Times Herald. View the full article

The Great Lakes Commission will divide nearly $900,000 among seven local organizations in the Great Lakes region to help cut runoff of sediment, nutrients and other water pollutants. Read the full story by The Associated Press. View the full article

“We are seeing increases in a number of dry and liquid bulk commodities as well as U.S. and Canadian grain,” Craig Middlebrook, deputy administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, said in a news release Wednesday. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

The volunteer board of St. Mary’s River Marine Heritage Centre has launched an online petition aimed at persuading the Sault Ste. Marie, ON City Council to drop the eviction notice it served earlier this year on the museum ship Norgoma. Read the full story by Soo Today. View the full article

Half of all the plastics that we’ve ever produced were produced in the last 13 years and half of those are single-use, and they are getting into the Great Lakes. Read the full story by National Public Radio, Pittsburgh. View the full article

News this year that Gov. Scott Walker had pulled his support for a national marine sanctuary off Wisconsin’s east coast came as a “bolt out of the blue.” Read the full story by the Sheboygan Press. View the full article

A massive 1960 flood in Odanah, Wisconsin, home to thousands of members of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe, was the beginning of a monumental shift in life on the reservation. In the next three decades, waves of people moved out of the flood plain until virtually the entire town had relocated to higher ground. Read the full story by National Public Radio. View the full article

People attending the inaugural Great Lakes Surf Festival in Muskegon this weekend won’t have any excuse to the bored. The event has a full day of events lined up, including surfing, paddleboarding, kite boarding, kayaking, windsurfing, music, camping and yoga. Read the full story by Mlive.com. View the full article

More than one hundred Canadian municipal wastewater systems did not report how much raw sewage overflowed from their pipes in 2017 but Environment Canada is only investigating two of them for violating federal regulations. Read the full story by The Canadian Press, Ottawa. View the full article

With a one-of-a-kind meteorite hunter called “Starfall” combing the depths of Lake Michigan, a team from the Adler Planetarium might pull off the improbable. Read the full story by ABC7, Manitowoc WI. View the full article