Tuesday, May 23, 2023
To help boost awareness of changing conditions at Great Lakes beaches and save lives, double red warning flags are now in place at state-designated swim beaches along the Great Lakes in Michigan state parks. It’s a change to the Great Lakes flag warning system that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources began integratingTuesday, May 16, 2023
The new pier in Houghton, Mich., is shown here during the 2022 fall festival. The pier was a placemaking project to create a town square for the city, but has the added function of serving as a cruise ship dock. Provided by Chase Palosaari HOUGHTON, MI – A small Upper Peninsula town has a new $5 million pier that’sFriday, May 12, 2023
Charter boat captain Dave Spangler holds a sample of algae from Maumee Bay in Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Scientists estimate about 85 percent of the Maumee's phosphorus, which promotes algal growth, comes from croplands and livestock operations. (Paul Sancya/AP) The National Oceanic and AtmosphericTuesday, April 25, 2023
The rocky shore near the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse on teh Keweenaw Peninsula. Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal UPPER PENINSULA — The State of Michigan lays claim to many trophies. To name a few: #1 producer of tart cherries Longest freshwater coastline (3,200 miles) The state with the only authentic, operating DutchWednesday, April 19, 2023
The City of South Haven places a buoy to monitor water conditions 24/7, April 2023. (South Haven Area Emergency Services/WWMT) SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — It felt like peak beach season for most of the week and first responders are already looking ahead to the summer tourism season. One way the City of South Haven tries toMonday, April 10, 2023
MONROE, Mich. (WXYZ) — Governor Gretchen Whitmer made an appearance at the port of Monroe Monday to announce an expansion of the Port of Monroe. Thanks to over $16 million in grants from the state and federal government, it will soon become the first container terminal in Michigan and the most state-of-the-art port on the GreatMonday, April 3, 2023
Equipment has been staged for dredging of the Mona Lake Channel to Lake Michigan. (Lynn Moore | MLive.com) MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Dredging will start soon on a Lake Michigan channel that otherwise would be impassable to all watercraft. Water depths in the Mona Lake Channel are as low as 1 foot in some areas, said Travis Ghezzi,Monday, March 27, 2023
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — (AP) — A federal review of plans for a Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel will take more than a year longer than originally planned, officials said Thursday, likely delaying completion of the project — if approved — until 2030 or later. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had intended toFriday, March 24, 2023
Some organisms taking refuge in artificial cobble reefs in Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay are invasive, but researchers say they don’t interfere with native species. Image: Ellen Marsden The ecological success of artificial reefs in Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay could teach people how to restore fish populations across theSaturday, March 11, 2023
Detroit Lakes — While flowering rush and zebra mussels are familiar aquatic nuisances in this area, and wild radish can cause serious burns to those clearing brush on land, the next big invasive concern for area lakes is hardly a plant at all — it’s a big floating algae with a fairy dust name – starry
