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Great Lakes Daily News: 20 November 2003
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Two projects expected to enhance Belle Isle
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Two projects that are expected to enhance the natural habitat at Belle Isle
will be announced by Recreation Department officials today. Source: Detroit
News (11/20)


Analysis due on low water levels
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The United States Geologic Survey is scheduled to release as early as
tomorrow a detailed analysis of why Monroe County's groundwater levels have
been dropping over the last several years. Source: The Toledo Blade (11/20)


Upton seeks leniency on air standards
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U.S. Rep. Fred Upton believes he has a solution to the problem of air
pollution that originates across Lake Michigan and winds up in southwest
Michigan. Source: South Bend Tribune (11/20)


New state park eyed
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The largest undeveloped and unprotected tract of land remaining along
Pennsylvania's Lake Erie shoreline might become the first new state park
since 1975. Source: Erie Times-News (11/20)


Ohio company at heart of blackout
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A Homer Simpson-like chain of errors at an Ohio power company triggered
events that plunged 50 million people into darkness Aug. 14, a U.S.-Canada
task force has found. Source: Toronto Star (11/20)


Property lines at issue in shoreline bill
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Conservationists and residents who live along Lake Erie clashed yesterday
over a bill that tries to redefine the line between private property and a
doctrine that allows citizens to enjoy Lake Erie's shore. Source: The
Toledo Blade (11/20)


Large crowd turns out to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Jim Landwehr from the Speakers Bureau of the Wisconsin Marine Historical
Society gave the talk in conjunction with an Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit that
opened recently at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. Source: Manitowoc Herald
Times Reporter (11/19)


Manure's polluting effect unknown
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Canada is boosting more high-intensity livestock farms -- even though the
government reveals it doesn't know how to keep manure from polluting more of
the country's shorelines. Source: Ottawa Citizen (11/17)


COMMENTARY: Lake Michigan fishing legacy a cause worth rallying around
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Fishermen and biologists should compromise and consider current health, and
the history of Lake Michigan to decide when to allow fishing. Source:
Chicago Sun-Times (11/9)


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