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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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TEACH Shoreline Geology

6 | Human impacts and the future

Seawall. Click for larger image. Our Great Lakes shorelines are threatened today by human impacts, such as shoreline housing development, tourism, and erosion. We need to ensure that we don't destroy what took nature millions of years to create. In December 2000, TEACH Great Lakes will explore the issue of human impacts on shorelines as well as the causes and problems of erosion. Come back soon to read further!


References

Great Lakes Atlas. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada, 1995.

Living with the Lakes. Great Lakes Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1999.

The Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Great Lakes Ecosystem: Issues and Opportunities. US Environmental Protection Agency and The Nature Conservancy, 1994.

Maynard, Laurie and Doug Wilcox. Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC), 1996.

BeachWatch, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program

Pasadena City College: Sand

National Park Service: Wetlands

Shelton, Napier. Superior Wilderness: Isle Royale National Park. Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 1997.

Parratt, Smitty and Doug Welker. The Place Names of Isle Royale. Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 1999.


Graphic: seawall

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