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Monday, September 11, 2023

A surfer and a seagull walk along a Lake Superior beach in Duluth on Sept. 7, 2023. Water levels on the lake are still above their long-term average, but they rose little during the summer due to dry conditions. Danielle Kaeding/WPR Water levels on the Great Lakes rose sharply earlier this year due to a very wet spring, but they

by: Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio

tags: Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Thursday, August 31, 2023

By Mackenzie Krumme Air Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 7:00am SHARE: Listen Download A research team at the UW-Madison is using drones to study erosion along Lake Michigan. We hear from the lead scientist about methods to track where eroded soil ends up and how the research might prevent more shoreline

by: Mackenzie Krumme, Wisconsin Public Radio

tags: Environmental Impact, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA If approved, the Lake Erie Quadrangle Sanctuary would cover roughly 740 square miles — most of Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie waters, excluding Presque Isle Bay, the channel connecting the bay to the lake, and privately owned water lots. On the Lake Erie beaches of Presque Isle State Park on

by: Kate Giammarise, 90.5 WESA

tags: Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, Shipwrecks

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Duluth leaders are looking to better forecast rip current conditions, and have launched a water safety buoy off Park Point to do so. The Fire Department deployed the buoy about 1,000 meters off the shore. It reports data to the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), and measures waves, wind, water temperature, and more. The information

by: Alex Buie, WDIO

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Minnesota, safety

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The 1,200-pound mussel-encrusted engine from a P-39 World War II-era fighter plane flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee airmen is moved, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023 at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit. The plane was flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee airmen that crashed during training nearly 80 years ago

by: Matt Durr, MLive

tags: History, Lake Huron, Michigan

Friday, August 18, 2023

Photo by: Greg Lashbrook, PolkaDotPerch.com via Michigan DNR It's summer in Michigan and people flocking to lakes and other bodies of water around the state may see something they didn't know we had – jellyfish. This week, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources put out information to remind people they may catch a

by: Max White, WXYZ Detroit

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Michigan

Thursday, August 17, 2023

The ongoing drought that has plagued Wisconsin over the last couple of months has had little to no impact on the water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. What You Need To Know Water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior remain above average Very little change has occurred in the lake levels over the last month

by: Meteorologist Kristin Ketchell, Spectrum News 1

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

OREGON, Ohio — The public should avoid all contact with water at Maumee Bay State Park due to cyanotoxin levels caused by the Lake Erie Algal Bloom, officials with the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department announced Wednesday. Authorities have issued a Recreational Public Health Advisory, meaning the public is not permitted

by: WTOL Newsroom

tags: Environmental Impact, Great Lakes, Lake Erie

Monday, August 14, 2023

LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Those with an appetite for fish caught in the Great Lakes should be wary of how much they consume from some of the region's largest water bodies, and should entirely avoid fish from some tributaries in Southeast Michigan. That's the advice from the health department's Eat Safe Fish guidelines, which unveiled

by: Jack Nissen, Fox 2 Detroit

tags: Fishing, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior

Friday, August 11, 2023

SMITHS FALLS, ON, August 4,2023 –Le Boat has revealed plans to expand on the Trent Severn Waterway for 2024 and cruises are now on sale for the 2024 boating season. . Le Boat is Europe’s largest boat rental company will be launching on the Trent Severn Waterway with a fleet of 8 Luxury Horizon Cruisers and their base will

by: Le Boat

tags: Canada, Lake Ontario, Promotions & Giveaways

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