Tag: Huron
Prairie above, forest below: Tawas Lake is home to Michigan’s largest wild rice bed
Tawas Lake, a 1,600-acre inland lake not far from Lake Huron, is home to Michigan’s largest bed of native wild rice, called manoomin in the Native Anishinaabemowin language. A new […]
SE Michigan updated drinking water monitoring provides real-time data
The upgraded system stretches between roughly Port Huron and Monroe, along Lake Saint Clair between Lakes Huron and Erie. Water treatment plant operators can now continuously monitor water for signs of potential contamination.
Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes
By Maya Moore
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say. Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.
The post Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
Fall fair season kicking off in Kincardine, Huron-Kinloss
As the summer season comes to an end, fall fairs are starting to pop up around the region. The Kincardine Agricultural Society is hosting its 174th fall fair at Connaught Park on Labour Day weekend. Themed “Fields, Flannels, and Friends,” admission to the event is $5 per person with children aged five and below entering […]
Michigan’s piping plovers expand to Lake Huron shore amid 40-year breeding record
This is the third consecutive year of record-setting piping plover breeding in the Great Lakes. Now an increasing number of the federally endangered birds are establishing nests on the Lake […]