Category: Great Lakes Commission
Gold pocket watch from ‘Titanic of the Great Lakes’ returns home after 165 years
A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament […]
Lake Erie algal bloom predicted to be ‘mild to moderate’ this year
The annual Lake Erie harmful algal bloom prediction has received an upgrade that could make it more accurate. Read the full story by the Port Clinton News Herald.
Volunteers plant nearly 400,000 trees to protect local river over past 25 years
After seeing the degradation of the Pine River, running from Ripley, Ontario, to Lake Huron, citizens came together to try and rehabilitate their waterway. With the approval and assistance of […]
Wreckage of this ship, on display on Sheboygan’s lakefront, was pulled from Lake Michigan’s icy waters in the 1990s
The Lottie Cooper was built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1876 when three-masted cargo ships were common on the Great Lakes, moving goods from port to port. In the summer of 1993, the remains […]
‘Lampreys don’t carry passports’: City plays key role in protecting Great Lakes
Recent funding and staffing cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have raised concerns in Canada about invasive lamprey population. Sea lamprey control is managed binationally by the Department of […]