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Anchor Awareness: Michigan Gov. Whitmer issues emergency order after video of Line 5 damage is released
-Whitmer also wrote to the U.S. Coast Guard requesting that it create a rule similar to Michigan’s on anchor dragging to cover foreign ships.
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“The Heart of the Great Lakes”: New book looks at the Detroit River’s history and its environmental recovery
-Great Lakes Now interviewed Dave Dempsey about his latest book, which examines the Detroit River’s recovery and the benefit to the region.
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Technology, Data, Tariffs: The most prominent topics of the 2019 Great Lakes Economic Forum
-The forum, which was held in Cleveland from May 6 through 8, hosted guests from more than just Canada and the U.S., but also France, Colombia and Japan.
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Big Week for Small Birds: The Biggest Week in American Birding started on Friday
-The Biggest Week in American Birding, which started on May 3 this year, regularly draws thousands of visitors to Ohio’s coastline.
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Early Flooding Hits Great Lakes Cities: Water levels could hit record highs this summer
-Marinas and waterfront cities struggle to deal with rising Great Lakes water levels, which could reach record highs in the next few months.
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Two Lake Erie tributaries draw tens of thousands for springtime fishing
-Dates come and go, and so do groundhogs and weather reports. However, the true indicator of spring is when thousands of men, women and children suddenly appear, waist-deep in the chilly, often muddy waters of the Sandusky and Maumee rivers.
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Report: Warming climate will challenge Great Lakes states
-Climate change is impacting temperature increases in the Great Lakes region faster than in neighboring and the contiguous 48 states. That’s the conclusion of a report released last week by a collaboration of scientists and policy specialists in the U.S. and Canada.
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Great Lakes Moment: The Osprey Lady of Michigan
-The osprey team is part of an effort to monitor, track and protect this massive bird of prey. The woman in the middle of the circle holding onto the osprey for dear life was Barb Jensen – the “Osprey Lady of Michigan.”
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Book Club: New book about Asian carp chronicles history, future
-With “Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis,” Reeves weaves politics, history, agriculture, fish biology and several other disciplinary perspectives into the story of the invasive fish.
