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The Poweshiek skipperling has disappeared from most of Michigan’s prairies. Now scientists are raising them in zoos for release back into the wild. | Great Lakes Echo

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By Ruth Thornton Standing next to a converted hoop house in one of the back areas of John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, David Pavlik points to a line of small cloth-covered cages filled with yellow black-eyed Susans and small orange butterflies. “These cages out here are females that have already bred in the facility,” […]

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London Free Press

Man, 38, charged in $250K Old East Village blaze

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A 38-year-old man is charged after fire tore through a vacant building along Dundas Street in London’s Old East Village, police say. The fire, deemed an arson by police, did an estimated $250,000 in damage, police said. Fire crews were called at about 10 a.m. Wednesday to the building at 737 Dundas St., on the […]

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What a Trump vs. Harris presidency might mean for the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now

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What a Trump vs. Harris presidency might mean for the Great Lakes

The 2024 presidential election campaign is in the homestretch and results in the Great Lakes states of Michigan and Wisconsin could determine the winner. Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump covet the electors in both states and polling indicates they could go either way.

Great Lakes Now selected three key topics — Great Lakes restoration, Line 5 and groundwater — and asked veteran policy experts Rob Sisson and Lana Pollack for their views on how a Harris or Trump presidency may deal with them.

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