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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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Did Lake Champlain become a Great Lakes in March of 1998?
from Taylor in Seaside, California
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proposed new legislation declaring Lake Champlain a Great Lake in 1998. The intent behind this proposal was to allow Vermont colleges to compete for the more than $50 million in research money under the National Sea Grant Program, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
However, the "Great Lakes" designation for Lake Champlain was not passed and there remains only 5 Great Lakes: Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Lake Champlain is not hydrologically part of the Great Lakes system, and in fact is much smaller area-wise than a number of other lakes in the region, such as Lake St. Clair (between lakes Huron and Erie) and Lake of the Woods (on the northern Minnesota border).
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Answered on December 18, 2000