Around the Basin 2009-05-19 No comments yet

• Coaster brook trout doesn’t make the cut for endangered species list. http://tinyurl.com/qgglru 09:57:26
• Lake Huron up a foot from last year. http://tinyurl.com/onpr32 09:59:59
• Trying to keep the sea lamprey population down on Lake Superior. Down to only 35,000 lampreys. http://tinyurl.com/qhpa5l 10:03:40
• RT @healthylakes: Great post making a strong case for full funding of Great Lakes restoration: http://tinyurl.com/oggrky 10:05:48
• Fight is on to restore the Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario. http://tinyurl.com/qw2nlw 17:46:44
• RT @healthylakes: RT @hughadam 10 great Great Lakes restoration blogs: http://bit.ly/Nrl7w 17:48:14
• Opinon: US Government is all wrong in its approach to border security with Canada. http://tinyurl.com/p8pta7 17:51:09

Around the Basin 2009-05-18 No comments yet

• Lake Michigan smelt harvests down. Commercial fishermen blame DNR. DNR blames zebra mussels. http://tinyurl.com/ojvs4u 09:55:43
• It’s lamprey spawning time in Michigan. http://tinyurl.com/pggbs8 09:58:05
• Cruise ship terminal under construction in Detroit. http://tinyurl.com/p7vyeq 12:04:52
• More on Detroit’s riverfront cruise ship terminal. http://tinyurl.com/ot5k3n 12:06:18

Around the Basin–April 18, 2009 No comments yet

• Michigan gets $236 million in stimulus money for water projects. Chicago Tribune

• Lamprey traps and love potions in Michigan. Mlive/Capital News Service

• Details on the Middle Island Cormorant cull. Windsor Star
  

• Declines in Green Bay brown trout despite stocking. Appleton Post-Crescent

Around the Basin–April 17, 2009 No comments yet

• US EPA to list greenhouse gasses as pollutants. The New York Times

• Cleveland talks turbines and zoning. Plain Dealer

• Pipeline to channels Lake Erie water to grow tomatoes in Ontario. The Windsor Star

• Fisheries Commission enlists anglers to fight sea lampreys. Mlive/The Flint Journal

Around the Basin–April 4, 2009 No comments yet

• New federal law creates 11 new wilderness areas, including one in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Mlive/Grand Rapids Press

• Sea lampreys on the rebound? Herald-Palladium

• Grandmother from Thunder Bay walks around Great Lakes to raise environmental consciousness. Toronto Star

Around the Basin–March 25, 2009 No comments yet

• Wind power trends. Great Britain takes steps to override local control of wind turbine siting. Manchester Guardian

• New El Niño study suggests that ocean weather pattern may have had big swings before human induced climate change started to develop. Toronto Globe and Mail

• Lamprey love on the rocks. Initial tests for the new sea lamprey traps are about to start. Scienceline

• What does Great Lakes shipping do for you? Detroit Free Press

Around the Basin–March 6, 2009 No comments yet

• Zapping lampreys. Should the lamprey weir on the Pere Marquette River be turned off? Luddington Daily News

• Legislators in Ohio take a look at drafting industrial water use guidelines under the Great Lakes Compact. Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer

• UW Milwaukee research institute donates fish fillets to feed the hungry. The Chicago Tribune

• One more Chicago suburb lines up for Lake Michigan water. Lake County News-Sun

Around the Basin–February 7, 2009 No comments yet

• Pheromones and lampreys. Ongoing efforts to control the invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. The Globe and Mail

• Slate Island caribou on Lake Superior. Backpacker Magazine

• Michigan governor forms panel to study off shore wind power. The Detroit News

• Rocks on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Archeologists evaluate a site on the bottom of Grand Traverse Bay. The Chicago Tribune

Around the Basin–January 20, 2009 No comments yet

• New weapons in the fight against the sea lamprey. Scientists are experimenting with a pheromone that lures the invasive bloodsuckers to their doom. BBC News

• Pollution from mine tailings in Canada. Canadian Federal Court heard a suit yesterday that alleges that the Minister of the Environment did not enforce environmental reporting laws. Environment News Service

• Group fights against offshore wind turbine project in Pigeon Bay, Ontario. The Windsor Star