Army Corps says regular lock closures won’t stop Asian carp
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Groups protest open-water sediment dumping in Lake Erie
Open-water dumping of dredged sediment is turning Lake Erie into “pea soup,” warn concerned environmental and business groups. The groups are suing to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers[…]
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County-funded shoreline buffers help protect lakes
While that vision of the perfect green, trimmed lawn seems an almost indelible facet of the “American Dream,” it can be a nightmare for lake water quality. Lakeside lawns with[…]
Automated fish taggers will process 30 million Great Lakes salmon and trout
Manually tagging the roughly 30 million salmon and trout annually stocked into the Great Lakes would be an almost impossible feat. A new $1.4 million automated fish marking and tagging[…]
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