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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it will cease stocking the popular strain of rainbow trout that has provided a shore fishery for more than four decades. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune. View the full article

Wisconsin doesn’t have the 3-mile-high peaks of the Himalayas or the unexplored underwater caves of Mexico, but this great state does have its share of natural wonders, including the sea caves of the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. Read the full story by USA Today. View the full article

The state government this week issued new fish consumption advisories for lakes and rivers in three counties after tests confirmed the presence of toxic chemicals. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Two pairs of federally endangered piping plovers successfully nested at Ohio’s Presque Isle State Park’s Gull Point in summer 2017, marking the first successful breeding of the species there since the mid- to late-1950s. Read the full story by GoErie.com. View the full article

Winter is usually the busiest time for Great Lakes shipyards like DonJon in Erie, PA, but this season could be one of the busiest ever. Read the full story by YourErie.com. View the full article

A shipwreck hunter sponsored by the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo has found the long-sought steam barge Margaret Olwill, which sank in Lake Erie off Lorain, Ohio during a storm in 1899, the museum announced Thursday. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade. View the full article

With two countries, eight states, two provinces, 249 counties and countless non-governmental organizations and businesses focusing attention on the complex issues confronting the Great Lakes basin, the need for a comprehensive approach was apparent. Read the full story by Door County Pulse. View the full article

After Lake Ontario shoreline communities were affected by flooding and erosion last year, Rep. Chris Collins said Wednesday that he wants Congress to mandate a State Department report on the affect of the International Joint Commission’s water-level management policy. Read the full story from the Buffalo News. View the full article

Ontario’s first salmon hatchery began in Samuel Wilmot’s basement in the late 1800s in Newcastle, 80 kilometers east of Toronto. By the time the facility closed almost 50 years later, it had produced 155 million baby fish and served as a model for hatcheries across Canada and in other countries. Read the full story from the Toronto Star. View the full article

Ontario’s first salmon hatchery began in Samuel Wilmot’s basement in the late 1800s in Newcastle, 80 kilometers east of Toronto. By the time the facility closed almost 50 years later, it had produced 155 million baby fish and served as a model for hatcheries across Canada and in other countries. Read the full story from the Toronto Star. View the full article

Ohio environmental officials have said for years that voluntary measures to cleanup Lake Erie pollution will be sufficient to save the lake. A lack of any real progress on lake pollution has proven them wrong. Read the full story from the Toledo Blade. View the full article

After several years of spraying with herbicide followed by controlled burning, progress is being reported in the campaign to roll back the phragmites invasion that is threatening the Long Point Biosphere ecosystem along the northeastern shores of Lake Erie in Ontario. Read the full story from the Simcoe Reformer. View the full article

In Ontario, a group has issued an “urgent” call to action in response to the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula’s assertion that the town will till and rake Sauble Beach this spring. They say the move would put endangered piping plovers and the long-term health of the Lake Huron beach in peril. Read the full story by the Owen Sound Sun Times. View the full article

With a Canadian company looking to mine gold, silver, and copper on ancestral lands in Wisconsin, opponents worry about toxic water and the destruction of Menominee heritage. Read the full story from the Pacific Standard. View the full article

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb approved a plan to use clean sand dredged from the sides of Lake Michigan structures to replenish Northwest Indiana’s badly eroded beaches. Read the full story from the Kokomo Perspective. View the full article

The nation’s rush to increase oil production is having a long-distance impact on the Great Lakes region, due to mining for sand that is used in the fracking process. Read the full story by Great Lakes Today. View the full article

For Chatham, Ontario’s Gary Smith, diving in Lake Erie is about discovering history. Following a presentation to the Rotary Club of Chatham Sunrise on Tuesday, he said there are over 2,000 shipwrecks in the lake to the south of Chatham-Kent alone. Read the full story by Chatham This Week. View the full article

It’s the second such funding request made by Ottawa County (MI) Parks and Recreation in its effort to buy the 353-acre sand mining property bordering a section of the Grand River channel near Grand Haven known as “the Sag.” A past-deadline request for $4.2 million received the blessing of Michigan’s Natural Resources Trust Fund Board late in 2017. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Two events, a candlelit cross-country ski race and a bike race across the ice, are held on the same weekend in February on Chequamegon Bay, a frozen inlet of Lake Superior in Ashland and Bayfield counties in northern Wisconsin. It’s easy to do both for a unique winter duathlon experience. Read the full story by the Star Tribune. View the full article

The average Lake Ontario outflow during the month of February was the highest in recorded history, according to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board. Historical records start in 1900 and include outflows that occurred both prior to and since the beginning of regulation in 1960. Read the full story by Quinte News. View the full article

The main purpose of our proposed sanctuary is to preserve, promote, educate about and learn more about the historic artifacts submerged in the lake waters off the counties of Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ozaukee: 39 known shipwrecks and 122 reported vessel losses (discoveries yet to be made) … artifacts that Gov. Walker termed “an extraordinary collection of submerged maritime heritage resources” when he submitted our sanctuary nomination. Read the full story by the Herald Times Reporter. View the full article

Kaptur took office in January 1983 as the representative of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, which includes a good part of the coastline of Lake Erie, including Toledo. Kaptur has been outspoken about environmental issues, especially preventing the pollution of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by CNN. View the full article

It’s the eighth annual St. Louis River Summit at the Yellowjacket Union on campus at University of Wisconsin-Superior. The conference brings together some of the top scientific minds in the area to discuss the importance of preserving and protecting our waterways. Read and view the full story by KQDS – Duluth, MN. View the full article

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District isn’t exactly a high-profile agency. Though its budget tops $1 billion, it’s likely many residents of Chicago and Cook County haven’t heard of the agency (known as MWRD) or know what it does (stormwater and sewage management throughout the county). Read the full story by WTTW – Chicago. View the full article

Ontario’s Bruce Power has partnered with the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) to conduct a three-year study of the impact of climate change on the region. The study will investigate the impacts on the region’s ecosystems as well as corporate action to tackle climate change locally and regionally. Read the full story by World Nuclear News. View the full article