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Strategic plan targets invasive species
The Superior Daily Telegram (11/17)
Douglas County’s Land Conservation Committee is forwarding a plan to the county board that takes aim at invasive species.
Mich. Clean Marina Program: Public-private partners work together to improve water quality
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/9)
Partners from the public and private sector in Michigan are working together in a voluntary program to improve the quality of the Great Lakes.
Researchers seek funding for wind test site in Lake Michigan
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/7)
In a recent article in The Muskegon Chronicle, it was reported that researchers at Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) cited a lack of year-around data (on wind platform testing) needed by prospective development companies.
COMMENTARY: Senate needs to pass clean energy act to help Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press (10/26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was absolutely correct with his recent proclamation about the current condition of the Great Lakes State: "The State of Michigan," Reid declared from the Senate Floor, with a copy Time Magazine in his hand, "is in trouble."
First Nation women 'walk the environmental talk'
WeNews (10/23)
Tomorrow's global day of climate activism aims for media and political attention. First Nation women have another way. Since 2003, they've walked the shoreline of a Great Lake or major river, meditating on the needs of an unborn generation.
City making big push for water school
The Business Journal (10/23)
The push is on to convince the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that the best location for its new School of Freshwater Sciences is near the university’s existing Great Lakes Water Institute on East Greenfield Avenue.
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Could I get some information on what happened to the boat "Edmund Fitzgerald"?
from Joseph of Lowell Scott Middle School in Boise, Idaho, Age 11
The Edmund Fitzgerald was a freighter carrying taconite pellets (low-grade iron ore) from Superior, Wisc. to Detroit, Mich. When caught in a severe storm, the ship's two radar systems failed as did the Whitefish Point beacon light. Captain McSorley of the "FITZ" had indicated he was having difficulty and was taking on water. Overcome by large waves and 90 mph winds, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975, near Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, killing all 29 passengers aboard. In 1995, the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald was recovered and restored, and now sits in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
For more information on the Edmund Fitzgerald, follow the links below. Gordon Lightfoot also wrote a song in memorial to the men who died in the shipwreck, called "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
References:
The Great Lakes Shipwrecks File: Total Losses of Great Lakes Ships, 1679-1999
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Great Lakes Seaway and Shipping
Restoration of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Bell
Thank you for your question!
Answered on July 17, 2000