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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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When was the first lighthouse built on Lake Superior? How many are there on Lake Superior today?
from Brianna in Wisconsin
The original light at Whitefish Point on Lake Superior dates back to 1849, being one of the two earliest lights on the Great Lakes (the other being Copper Harbor, Michigan). Standing guard over an area of Lake Superior known as the "Graveyard of the Lakes," Whitefish Point was the lighthouse that failed to light for the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Automated by the Coast Guard in 1970, the station no longer has a resident keeper, and the dwelling now houses the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
As for the number of lighthouses on Lake Superior, many of the lists we found differed between active lights, standing lights, and decommissioned lights. The most comprehensive listing we found lists 39 lights, some that are now in ruins. Check out the list at the Internet Public Library.
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Answered on October 16, 2000