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Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, History and Culture, Lake Erie, Latest News, News

The history of taming the Great Black Swamp

by Patrick Wensink November 19, 2025

Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today.

Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, Freighters, History and Culture, Lake Superior, Latest News, News, Recreation and Tourism, Shipwrecks

Fifty years later: The little-known story of the families the Fitz left behind

by Thomas Nelson November 10, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, History and Culture, Lake Michigan, Latest News, News

The Lake Michigan dive that made history

by Max Gene Nohl August 5, 2025December 8, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, History and Culture, Indigenous Communities, Latest News, Minnesota, News, Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice, Region, Water Quality and Restoration Efforts, Waves of Change

Waves of Change: Meet Ojibwe leader, activist and water walker Sharon Day

by Great Lakes Now June 26, 2025
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Alberto Rey: Art all about Earth

by James Proffitt, Great Lakes Now April 11, 2025November 7, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Forests and Plants, History and Culture, Latest News, Minnesota, News, Region, Science, Technology, Research

Putting passion to pages: Minnesota authors release second guide to state wildflowers

by Great Lakes Echo March 21, 2025November 7, 2025
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Authors, Books, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, History and Culture, Ian Solomon, Latest News, Michigan, News, Recreation and Tourism, Region, Tourism, Who We Are and What We Do

Ian Outside: A Detroiter’s journey to Calumet for CopperDog

by Ian Solomon March 6, 2025November 7, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Fish, Birds and Animals, History and Culture, Indigenous Communities, Industry, Energy, Economic Development, Latest News, Minnesota, News, Region, Science, Technology, Research

A different perspective on the fur trade

by Great Lakes Now February 20, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, Forests and Plants, History and Culture, Latest News, News, Ohio, Region, Science, Technology, Research

Toledo’s community art highlights importance of native plants for safe drinking water

by Great Lakes Echo February 13, 2025November 8, 2025
Posted inBooks, Authors, Art and Music, Featured, History and Culture, Latest News, News

Fact or Fake? Readers can test their Great Lakes knowledge with excerpts from this new book

by Dave Dempsey January 21, 2025

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    Over the next six months, the Army Corps predicts water levels will stay below long-term averages on all Great Lakes, except possibly Lake Ontario.
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