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Massive fish kill yields no carp, proponents concede lock closure wrong step SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following a one week lock closure to accommodate a fish kill on a two mile stretch of the Little Calumet River in search of Asian carp, none of the invasive species was found. As a result, proponents of lock closure now acknowledge their call for lock closure was unwarranted. Nick Schroeck, director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center in Detroit admits,...
Scientists are reporting that mercury levels in a popular species of game fish in Lake Erie are increasing after two decades of steady decline. The study, the most comprehensive to date on mercury levels in Great Lakes fish, is in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal.Satyendra Bhavsar and colleagues note that the Great Lakes is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. The lakes are of significant economic importance to the United States and Canada due...
BUFFALO, N.Y., May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The wind, the water, the wide blue sky -- what could be more "green" than a summer day boating on your favorite river or lake? (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100519/DC07742) According to Caleb Basiliko, research fleet manager at Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center Field Station, boaters can take several steps to make their summer on New York State's waterways as green as possible. "One thing we're doing at the Field...
More than 230 Will Attend CHICAGO, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Calumet Summit 2010 Committee: WHAT: More than 230 researchers, educators, public officials, and other stakeholders will participate in an unprecedented bi-state effort to re-think the ecological future of the Calumet Region, one of the world's most diverse landscapes. WHEN: April 27 & 28, 2010 8:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. WHERE: The Calumet Conference Center Purdue University...
CHICAGO, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Joyce Foundation announced it is awarding 49 organizations nearly $10 million in its spring 2010 grant making cycle. Invested in six different program areas including Education, Employment, Environment, Culture, Gun Violence, and Money and Politics, these funds will support new and continuing initiatives that will have an impact on states within the Great Lakes region. "At Joyce, our goal is to support organizations and opportunities that can...
Two notorious Great Lakes invaders"”the zebra mussel and the round goby"”now play a central role in transferring toxic chemicals called PCBs up the food chain and into Saginaw Bay walleyes, one of that region's most popular sport fish.The links between zebra mussels, round gobies and contaminated Saginaw Bay walleyes is a disturbing example of unanticipated problems that can occur when non-native species get loose in the Great Lakes, said University of Michigan fishery biologist David...
The Great Lakes, beset by toxic contamination, invasive species and disappearing wildlife habitat, are the center of attention in a new five-year plan by the Obama administration to clean up the vast ecosystem. A document on the plan was released at a news conference in Washington on Sunday by Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The plan is for $2.2 billion in funding to be set aside for reviving the lakes after more than a century of damage. According to the Associated...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and members of the Council of Great Lakes Governors today unveiled an ambitious action plan designed to address the most serious environmental challenges facing the Great Lakes ecosystem. "The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative highlights the important and urgent cause of protecting and restoring this valuable natural treasure," Governor Rendell said....
FREMONT, Mich., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Fremont Insurance (OTC Bulletin Board: FMMH), a Michigan-based property and casualty insurance carrier, is pleased to announce new enhancements to the company's yacht policy, giving policyholders the freedom to travel virtually anywhere in North America without fear of loss of coverage or the added expense of travel endorsements. Fremont Insurance has expanded the company's standard navigation coverage to include virtually every inland lake and...
With Asian carp set to ravage the Great Lakes, the federal government has devised a 78.5 million dollar plan that cannot promise to fend off the predators, and does not utilize the most powerful weapon in its arsenal, the Associated Press reported. The most promising method to keep the carp from wreaking havoc in the lakes and threatening its $7 billion fishing industry is to cut the link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River basin, which was built by engineers in Chicago over 100...
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The Great lakes have a huge impact in the weather for the cities that are near the lakes. In the fall and early winter months the lakes can create intense snowfall events known as “Lake Effect Snow”. The reason that this occurs has to do with the water temps of the lakes and also the temps of the air that is moving across them. When an Alberta Clipper system forms in Canada and moves Southeastward towards the US, it brings that cold air and strong Northwest winds over the warmer waters....
If you look at our weather map above you see a warm front extending from Iowa into the Great Lakes region. What a warm front does is separate warm air from cool air. On the north side of the front the temps will be about 15-20 degrees cooler than on the south side of the front. The warm front is depicted on a weather map as having red half circles. The reason for using half circles it to show that advancing of the warm air from the south. Winds ahead of the warm front are from the...
Symbol: PRPUP Group: Dicot Family: Rosaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Shrub Native Status: L48 N CAN N Synonyms: CEPU8 Cerasus pumila (L.) Michx. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:NY, OH, PA Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants...
The snowbelt is a North American region that lies downwind of the Great lakes, where heavy snowfall is common on mostly the eastern and southern shores of the Great Lakes. Lake-effect snow is caused by cold air picking up moisture while crossing the lake and then releasing it as snow when the air cools over land. Throughout much of the winter, lakes produce lake-effect snow and continuously cloudy skies. This phenomenon continues as long as the air temperature is colder than the water...
The Yellow Bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) is a species of bullhead catfish. Their range extends throughout the central and eastern US from central Texas north into North Dakota and east through the Great Lakes region to the coast. Its habitat includes pools, backwaters, and sluggish current over soft or mildly rocky substrate in creeks, small to larger rivers, and shallow portions of lakes and ponds. Yellow Bullheads are typically yellow-olive to slate-black on the back and sometimes mottled...
