[dailynews] April 30, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: April 30, 2012
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Soon, Downriver party hot spot Sugar Island will be off-limits to boaters
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The Detroit International Wildlife Refuge has bought the privately owned island just off Grosse Ile and plans to close it to the public, except for research and hunting, to put a stop to wild parties and traditional boat-burnings. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/30)


EDITORIAL: Desperately seeking Asian carp fix
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As of its most recent report, the Corps expects to list an "array of alternative plans" by the end of 2013, not a final proposal. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/30)


Pulaski-based Beachmakers invents machine to chew up zebra mussels
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The machine suctions up shells through a large hose, which sends them into a chamber where a 'tornado effect' spins the shells around, crushing them as they are tossed against the interior walls, until they disintegrate into sand. Source: Green Bay Press Gazette (4/30)


Flooding disperses invasive plant, fish species
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The overflowing Missouri and Mississippi rivers last year launched Asian carp into lakes and oxbows where the fish had not been seen before. Source: msnbc.com (4/30)


Report: Laws needed to protect Great Lakes from oil spills such as 2010 release in Michigan
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A report written in response to a massive oil spill in southern Michigan concludes federal laws are inadequate to protect the Great Lakes basin from oil pollution and states should fill the gaps. Source: The Republic (4/30)


Duluth bicyclists to circle all five Great Lakes
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Kris McNeil, 26, and Zach Chase, 25, who both graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2010, will begin the 5,300 mile journey in Duluth, Minn., returning home Aug. 5.  They will travel through two countries, eight states and about 20 major cities. Source: Great Lakes Echo (4/30)


Corps of Engineers, Erie County, City of Buffalo partner to remove invasive plant species from Times Beach
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, working under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is partnering with Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the Friends of Times Beach to implement the $500 thousand first phase of an aquatic invasive plant species removal project. Source: WKBW Buffalo (4/30)


Barrels dumped in lake get new assessment
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The Department of Defense is funding its most expensive munitions dump cleanup on American Indian territory - along the North Shore of Lake Superior, an area ceded by northern Wisconsin tribes to the U.S. government in the 19th century. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/29)


Senators introduce bipartisan legislation to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes
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The bill builds on the Minnesota delegation members' bipartisan legislation to fight the spread of Asian carp in Minnesota's waterways. Source: Echo Press (4/28)


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