Tag: Lake Erie
Huge piece of 19th century vessel washes ashore in Southwestern Ontario
A large section of a 19th-century vessel has washed up on the shore of Lake Erie in this lakeside community near Chatham.
Great Lakes Moment: Connecting people to nature through The Great Lakes Way
A recent Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan report documents substantial progress in creating The Great Lakes Way — an interconnected set of greenways and water trails stretching from Port Huron, Michigan on southern Lake Huron to Toledo, Ohio on western Lake Erie.
In 2000, the Community Foundation polled metropolitan Detroit communities about obstacles to building greenways.
How much ice will be on the Great Lakes this year? Forecasters make prediction.
A warm spell in February meant record low ice coverage on the Great Lakes at the end of last winter.
Mother of missing London student stuck in ‘bad dreamâ
Thereâs no new year for the mother of a missing Fanshawe College student, who vanished a month ago in Central Elgin.
Michigan’s State of the Great Lakes report: a lot of work ahead
The State of the Great Lakes report includes a number of accomplishments and jobs still ahead for improving the environment and the well-being of the people who drink, fish, and swim in the waters.
The year in news: LFP’s 50 most-read stories of 2024
Here are the most-read stories of 2024 from The London Free Press and lfpress.com:
Walleye Numbers are Down in Lake Erie
Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODW) officials have released their 2024 trawl survey indexes for Lake Erie’s two most-sought sportfish: yellow perch and walleye. This year’s results bring an end to a streak of wildly successful hatches for walleye. For yellow perch two of Ohio’s three management zones were above average, with the third zone down by 70% over last year.
Brothers donate part of 150-year family farm to conservation agency
A family whose Elgin County farm goes back 150 years has donated part of the land to a conservation authority facing environmental challenges.
Lake Erie cyanobacterial pollution lawsuit adds Ohio EPA as defendant
A federal district judge has approved the Ohio EPA’s request to be added as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that the Ohio EPA and the U.S. EPA devised a defective program to control phosphorus flowing into Lake Erie, a chief cause of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in the Great Lake.
How low have Lake Erie water levels dropped? What December projections show
As colder winter weather impacts Lake Erie, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts water levels in the lake will continue to drop. Read the full story by the Erie […]