Lake Erie along Pennsylvania’s shoreline on its way to becoming national marine sanctuary

President Joe Biden’s administration took the first step Thursday toward designating the Pennsylvania-owned section of Lake Erie as the state’s first national marine sanctuary. The designation would apply to an approximately 740-square-mile area of water off Pennsylvania’s 75 mile-long shoreline and would attract federal funding to help find and preserve shipwrecks in the lake and boost education and outreach around the area’s history. Read the full story by The Associated Press.