[dailynews] May 14, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: May 14, 2012
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Man campaigns to get old ship designated a national treasure
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The Michigan State Preservation Review Board is to consider the nomination Friday for the Bramble, commissioned in 1944. Source: Detroit Free Press (5/14)


Participatory 'experience' planned for Great Lakes museum
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The museum's 9,000 square feet of space is to include more than 50 interactive features - some of them audio-visual, other mechanical - that will offer visitors realistic opportunities to do and observe things Great Lakes mariners have done and observed during the several centuries since European explorers and settlers entered the region. Source: Toledo Blade (5/14)


Barlow returning to take up battle for Great Lakes
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Barlow is scheduled to speak at the Tiny Community Centre on Concession 8 East as part of a province-wide tour aimed at restoring more democratic control of the Great Lakes. Source: Midland Free Press (5/14)


Charter fishing bookings, hotel rooms see major growth as Sheboygan County prime tourism season arrives
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Tourism operators say they're expecting one of their strongest summers in several years in Sheboygan County, after seeing a sharp increase in advance bookings for hotel rooms, charter fishing boats and other activities. Source: Sheboygan Press (5/14)


Debate rages over OH water source
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As of December 2013, all proposals for withdrawal of more than 5 million gallons per day from the Lake Erie Basin must be submitted to all eight Great Lake states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec for comment. Source: Warren Tribune Chronicle (5/14)


Checks find two Oregon boats with invasive mussels
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Inspectors found a boat last week infected with quagga mussels picked up from Lake Havasu in Arizona. It was scheduled to be decontaminated in Portland on Monday. Crews in La Grande discovered zebra mussels on a boat from Saginaw Bay, Mich. Source: Longview (WA) Daily News (5/14)


Asian carp may have back door to Minnesota
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Commercial fishermen recently caught dozens of Asian carp in northwestern Iowa's Great Lakes, one of that state's most popular vacation spots. Those waters connect with lakes and streams in southwestern Minnesota. Source: Times Union (5/13)


EDITORIAL: Urgency needed on carp
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The Corps' new timetable still isn't aggressive enough. Even then, the Corps acted only after it was barraged with complaints by lawmakers and those who make their livelihood from the lakes. Source: Toledo Blade (5/13)


ITORIAL: Watchdogging the frackers
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The Natural Resources Department aims to roughly triple its field inspectors for Ohio gas and oil wells -- from 36 today to 90 by early 2013. That earns applause, but not a standing ovation. Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (5/13)


Massena mayor sees tourism potential in Seaway
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He said he would like to see Massena expand and improve its tourist offerings, and sees a reinvestment in the Seaway grounds as an important step. Source: Watertown Daily Times (5/13)


Great Lakes invaders face salty rebuff
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The Coast Guard appears to be making progress in a long battle to keep foreign creatures that lurk in ships' ballast tanks from slipping into the Great Lakes, where they have blighted some populations of once-abundant native fish and cause hundreds of millions of dollars a year in damage. Source: Wall Street Journal (5/11)


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