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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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| Purple Loosestrife Project 9-12 | free sample lesson | |
| Grade level: 9-12 | Date: 1999 | Program cost: Free |
| Subjects: science, social studies | ||
Correlated to education standards? Yes
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This program gives students a practical application of invasive species management focusing on purple loosestrife. Students assess the plant diversity in an infested wetland, raise and apply beetles in a marsh as a control agent, and monitor the results.
Through this practical, action-based program, students examine the interactions of a single invasive species, purple loosestrife, with its wetland habitat and beetles which can control its density. Students assess the plant diversity in an infested wetland, raise and apply beetles in a marsh as a control agent, and monitor the results. As the classroom companion to Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife, PLP 9-12 covers much of the same ground without an activity focus on the value of wetlands. The lesson titles are the same but the emphasis is more on formal experimental design, the scientific method, state standards, student expectations, and assessment. There is a bit more content and a bit less practical direction on raising and releasing the beetles. It references The Cooperators Handbook, and we recommend purchase of this handbook as a companion resource. Procedure descriptions are general and leave a lot of room for leader modification and specific questioning approaches. If you are in the classroom, there is value in getting the two programs and combining the best of both. As written, it is most appropriate for grades 9-12. There is also website support with potential for interaction and data sharing.
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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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