Category: Great Lakes
Ontario will sever Wasaga Beach park despite 98% disapproval in public comments
Ontario received more than 14,000 comments on the plan to drop provincial protections on a portion of the park, transferring management of endangered plover habitat to the municipality
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Sorting Fish and Breakaway Buoys
Sort fish, harvest wild rice, and what a drifting buoy revealed about winter on the lakes.
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Coast Guard battles winter ice on Great Lakes
U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on January 21 clearing a path to help large cargo boats that were stuck in ice continue their […]
When Lake Michigan freezes, even its lighthouses grow beards
The outer north pier lighthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan looked like a grumpy old wizard this past weekend as the polar vortex coated it with ice. Read the full story […]
This Ontario park’s shoreline offers rare and elusive formations and ice volcanoes during frigid winters
An Ontario park known for its sandy beaches in the summer transforms during the winter months, turning its landscape into a snowy wonderland with possible sightings of rare ice formations […]