[dailynews] August 17, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: August 17, 2011
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Sleeping Bear Dunes voted "Most Beautiful Place in America"
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, tucked away in the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, won the title of "Good Morning America's "Most Beautiful Place in America. Source: ABC News (8/17)


Iconic Minnesota walleye fishery besieged by invasive zebra mussels
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Huge Lake Mille Lacs - Minnesota's most popular fishing hot-spot - rocked gently on Friday, but beneath the surface was bedlam. There, on the lake bottom, a population explosion of tiny zebra mussels is occurring that could change the great lake forever. Source: The Miami Herald (8/17)


Can we bring the grayling back to Michigan?
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Overfishing and destruction of its habitat have driven the Arctic grayling from its native Upper Michigan waters. But Michigan Technological University biologists Nancy Auer and Casey Huckins are looking into the possibility of bringing them back. Source: Michigan Tech News (8/17)


Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup to run Sept. 17 to 25
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Shorelines around Etobicoke will be scrubbed clean this September with the return of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup and a host of volunteers organizing groups along Mimico and Etobicoke creeks and Lake Ontario. Source: InsideToronto (8/17)


Sport fishing abides on stocked salmon
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While commercial fishing on southern Lake Michigan has hit hard times, recreational fishing for salmon continues to hang on even in the face of a long-term drop in populations of forage fish - the little fish that the big salmon feast upon. Source: Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (8/17)


Reclaiming the Buffalo riverfront
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A century's worth of toxic waste will be dredged out of the Buffalo River over the next two years as part of an ambitious, $50 million cleanup effort that aims to turn a 6.2-mile industrial wasteland into a place the public can again enjoy. Source: The Buffalo News (8/16)


It's official: St. Lawrence Seaway expansion study is dead
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has officially scratched the idea of expanding the St. Lawrence Seaway to allow larger, ocean-bound ships to enter the system. Source: Watertown Daily Times (8/16)


In Lake Michigan, resilient whitefish, fishermen fight for a comeback
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While Lake Michigan's commercial fishery has survived overfishing, industrial pollution and lakeshore development, the last commercially fished species are jeopardized by an onslaught of destructive invaders, many of which have arrived as stowaways aboard ocean freighters since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Source: Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (8/16)


DNR to allow fish passage in Grafton
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The state Department of Natural Resources will permit construction of a fish passage with a fish trapping and sorting facility at the Bridge St. dam on the Milwaukee River, Water Division Administrator Ken Johnson said Tuesday. Source: Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (8/16)


Ironville Dock makes inroads as hub
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A rail loop is under construction through the 71 acres between Front and the Maumee River. The track will be used to transfer bulk commodities, such as grain and stone, between trains and ships or trucks. Source: The Toledo Blade (8/16)


Fond du Lac Band buys sacred Ojibwe island
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A sacred Ojibwe island on the St. Louis River is now in the hands of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Spirit Island, the sixth stopping place in the migration of the Anishinaabe people from the northeastern part of the continent, was purchased by the band Monday. Source: Duluth News Tribune (8/16)


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