[dailynews] October 25, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: October 25, 2011
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Scientists head to D.C. with mercury findings
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Scientists are in Washington D.C. today to present to federal lawmakers with research suggesting the Great Lakes region has more problems with mercury than previously thought. Source: Great Lakes Echo (10/25)


Predators and warm water could stymie arctic grayling revival in Michigan
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A fish species - the arctic grayling - that vanished from Michigan's rivers around a century ago could once again swim in the Manistee River if it can survive the predator-laden, dam-warmed waters under consideration. Source: Great Lakes Echo (10/25)


Facility along Kewaunee RIver aids sturgeon project
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As part of rehabilitating the lake sturgeon population in Lake Michigan, sturgeon have been hatched, reared, and stocked by the Wisc. DNR at a streamside rearing facility on the Kewaunee River. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/24)


What's killing the birds in Georgian Bay?
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A Pathologist with the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre discusses how botulism, the disease responsible for recent bird deaths on Lake Ontario's shore, grows, affects birds and fish, and whether human populations have anything to worry about.   

Read it on Global News: Global Toronto | What's killing the birds in Georgian Bay? Source: Global Toronto (10/24)


New York's plan good for Great Lakes, says citizens' group
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A plan by New York State to impose tough regulations on ballast waters to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species sees support from the Council of Canadians, despite a report finding that the proposed rules could have a negative economic impact. Source: Epoch Times (10/24)


EDITORIAL: Assault on the EPA comes at a bad time
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Twenty-five states, largely led by GOP governors, have petitioned a federal court to block the Environmental Protection Agency's plan for limits on mercury and other air contaminants. Source: Star Tribune (10/24)


New York offers ballast compromise; shipping advocates balk
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The state of New York does not appear to be bowing to pressure from a group of Great Lakes governors to back off on its plan to adopt the region's toughest ballast discharge laws for overseas ships visiting the Great Lakes. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/24)


New species discovered in Lake Erie
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A federal biologist found a new species in Lake Erie in September: a tiny but prolific parasite that can attach to, and feed on, a number of different sport fish, including perch. Source: Erie Time-News (10/22)


Erosion is essential to rare clay bluff habitat found along Lake Michigan shoreline, scientists believe
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The vertical cliffs of the Wau-Ke-Na Preserve, located along the Lake Michigan shoreline between South Haven and Saugatuck, are one of Michigan's few examples of a rare environmental classification known as clay-seepage bluffs. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (10/21)


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