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Great Lakes Are Down In The Count When It Comes To Invasive Species
Saturday opened the first weekend of the baseball season and an excellent article in the New York Times on the government’s weak attempts to hit invasive species out of the park (or at least out of the...
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Wooing Great Lakes Voters
This week the Cleveland Plain Dealer sent a shot across the bow of the presidential candidates. In an editorial, it chastised the Obama Administration for doing too little, too late to stop Asian carp...
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Those who don’t learn from history…
The NWF Great Lakes Regional Center’s new reports on oil and gas drilling, and on sulfide mining could not have been timelier. Just as we are issuing reports on government efforts to address oil and...
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Great Lakes Leadership
If there was ever a day when the Great Lakes need presidential – and presidential candidate –leadership, today is it. First there’s this week’s release of the latest Asian carp eDNA tests by the Army...
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It’s Time to Get Outside
Hi, everyone. After a summer blogging break, I’m back with a new challenge: the indoor child. Yesterday, Michigan’s online news magazine, The Bridge, ran a piece I wrote, Let’s Open the Door for...
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Crunch Time for Presidential Candidates in the Great Lakes
Unified. Bipartisan. Consensus. Common priority. You rarely hear those words around a presidential election season, especially when they involve something urgent, sometimes controversial, and...
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Enbridge Oil Pipeline is a Sunken Hazard in the Great Lakes
I got a surprise last week after we released our report on the Enbridge oil pipeline that runs along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac: a national business news story that seemed to imply that...
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Great Lakes Summit Coming This Summer
This could be a big deal for the Great Lakes. Last week, in the highest profile address he makes all year, the State of the State, Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder called for all the region’s Governors...
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The Great Lakes and the fiscal…..slope?
I don’t know about you, but after months of reading about fiscal cliffs, sequestration, grand bargains, and a variety of other metaphors for the budget situation in Washington, I could never figure...
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Don’t dig a deeper hole for the Great Lakes
First do no harm. That’s a maxim for the medical profession – and we should follow it when it comes to responding to Great Lakes crises. Make no mistake: this crisis is real and scary. In Lake...
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