[dailynews] January 3, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: January 3, 2012
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West Michigan Underwater Preserve would protect 150 miles of shore waters
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A proposed West Michigan Underwater Preserve would protect more than 150 miles of southern Lake Michigan shore waters, highlighting shipwrecks and natural features popular with divers. Source: The Holland Sentinel (1/2)


EDITORIAL: It's up to Michigan to find right balance in wolf protections
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Michigan finally has the ability to do the right things to manage the wolves that have begun prospering in the Upper Peninsula. Source: Detroit Free Press (1/2)


COMMENTARY: Petty Toronto politics mustn't sink chance to do something great with the waterfront
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Waterfront Toronto, a public advocacy and stewarship agency, is in the midst of reappraising its plans for the Port Lands, the tract of underused land on the east flank of the city. Source: The Globe and Mail (1/2)


Sunken ship in Lake Michigan is named to National Register of Historic Places
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A Lake Michigan ship, the canaller Walter B. Allen, that sank in 1880 in southeastern Wisconsin has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Source: The Republic (1/2)


Great Lakes water levels are on the rise
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Heavy rainfall and warmer than average temperatures the past few months in this region has been "water in the bank" to help restore close to normal averages of lake levels on the Great Lakes. Source: The Windsor Star (12/30)


Underwater cannon may help protect Great Lakes
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Biologists plan to use a seismic gun to chase invasive round gobies from several Lake Michigan reefs. Source: Wall Street Journal (12/30)


EDITORIAL: Save the Great Lakes
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The new federal budget includes $300 million more to restore the Great Lakes, but while this year's funding level buys time, it is not cause for celebration. Source: The Toledo Blade (12/28)


Spring meeting to focus on Lake Superior mining
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Economic, environmental, and social impacts of the mining industry in the Lake Superior basin will be the focus of a meeting this coming spring in Ashland, Wisconsin. Source: Ashland Current (12/27)


Lake Huron find raises hopes in search for signs of ancient human activity
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The recovery of a pole-shaped piece of wood that's 8,900 years old and some 30 metres below the surface of Lake Huron has offered hope that more intact evidence of human activity will be found in the area. Source: Winnipeg Free Press (12/25)


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