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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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| LAKERS Observe Coastweeks | free sample lesson | |
| Grade level: 6-8 | Date: 1997 | Program cost: Free |
| Subjects: environmental science | ||
Correlated to education standards? Yes
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An active, discovery-based program, part new, part obtained from a number of other Ohio Sea Grant materials, which is designed to link middle school students with Coastweeks, an international beach clean-up program held in the early Fall.
LOC is a set of materials that combines new materials with individual activities from a number of other Ohio Sea Grant programs. All of the activities are designed to link middle school students with Coastweeks, an international program held in early fall. Over a three-week period, volunteers can undertake a number of projects related to water conservation, environmental awareness, and, in particular, beach clean-ups. Dating from the mid-80’s, these clean-ups have rid our shores of millions of kilograms of litter around the world. In addition, data collected from the clean-ups and sent to The Ocean Conservancy for analysis have made us aware of the specific types and sources of solid beach waste.
Through a series of classroom and outdoor hands-on activities, students discover ways in which humans use the lakes, benefit from them, and in turn affect the environment in and along Lake Erie. Content includes lessons on general lake and shore use, estuary wetlands, marine shipping, invasive species, the origins and impacts of beach debris, shore processes (glaciation, erosion, currents, lake levels and weather) and shoreline cleanup, including data and data forms. Students hit the beach aware, informed and motivated instead of looking for a day off. Designed for Lake Erie, LOC is adaptable, with some effort, to other Great Lakes locations.
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| Issue 1: Habitat |  | Key Characteristic 1: Accuracy |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 2: Pollution | | Key Characteristic 2: Depth |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 3: Invasives | | Key Characteristic 3: Skills | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 4: Ecosystem | | Key Characteristic 4: Action | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 5: Biodiversity | | Key Characteristic 5: Soundness |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 6: Build Fisheries | | Key Characteristic 6: Usability | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 7: Treaty Rights | - |
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| Issue 8: Manage Fisheries | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 9: Stewardship | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 10: Fishing | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 11: Careers | - | ||||||||||||||||
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