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Lake Erie Steelhead fishing thriving through Great Lakes cooperation
-In the past decade, steelhead fishing on Lake Erie has been heating up and for good reason: wildlife officials in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York have worked non-stop, and cooperatively, to ensure healthy populations of this super-prized and super-beautiful fish.
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Lake Superior Zebra Mussels: “A big disappointing surprise”
-Common wisdom would tell you zebra mussels couldn’t live in Lake Superior because it’s an unproductive lake with frigid temperatures. But common wisdom might be wrong this time. When researchers started finding the mollusk nuisance not just surviving but spreading in the lake, they exhaled a collective groan.
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The Door Flint Opened: America’s Drinking Water Crisis A Great Lakes Now Special airs Nov. 1, 9 pm on DPTV
-In this debut of the DPTV Great Lakes Bureau’s series of half-hour specials, GreatLakesNow.org examines how the Flint Water Crisis is shining a light on global water issues.
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Line 5 and the Michigan Governor’s Race
-As the race to replace Michigan Governor Rick Snyder nears the finish line, candidates Republican Bill Schuette and Democrat Gretchen Whitmer are sharply divided on what to do about Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.
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Samaritans of the Inland Seas
-Samaritans of the inland seas, Ryan Busche, Jared VanOordt, Karol Rajski and Drew Etling on May 21 starting in Marquette, Michigan, these vigilante Vikings began a three-month paddle along the 2,726 miles of Lake Superior’s coastline, armed with a message of conservation and a mission of cleanup.
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Stocking Sturgeon on Lake Erie
-Thousands of people – from young children to the elderly – helped stock Lake Erie’s first batch of freshly-minted lake sturgeon last week.
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A Great Lakes Moment from John Hartig
-Hamilton Harbour is a 5,313-acre embayment located at the west end of Lake Ontario. It has over a 100-year history of industrial and urban development. In the middle of the 19th century, the Great Western Railway was founded in the city, making Hamilton the center of Canadian industry.
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Going Green on the Great Lakes
-Maria Gallucci is the 2017-2018 Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas – Austin. She spent the last year of her life in intense research and study of the maritime industry and its potential to transform energy use to cleaner fuels to become more sustainable for the future.
