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Great Lakes Daily News: 10 August 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EDITORIAL: Lakes Protection
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The job of saving the Great Lakes from diversions needs the active
involvement of Michiganders, whose first public opportunity comes at the end
of this month. Source: Detroit Free Press (8/10)

Invasive plant attacks human skin, causing purplish scars
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The name may conjure pigpen pleasures, but giant hogweed is no summertime
snooze in the mud. Triggered by light, a toxin in hogweed sap attacks human
skin, causing swelling, burns, blisters and permanent, purplish scars.
Source: Detroit Free Press (8/10)

Counting cormorants
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Some resort owners and anglers don't like to have to compete with cormorants
and are advocating a hunting season, even though the big black bird is
currently a protected species. Source: Minnesota Public Radio (8/10)

Diver finds shipwreck teeming with life
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A 90-year-old wreck in the St. Lawrence River has become an artificial reef,
with huge starfish, crabs, sea bass and something called a sea potato.
Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard (8/10)

Tire-burning plant in Minnesota brings jobs
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In a farm community in southeast Minnesota, developers eager to capitalize
on a new tire-burning technology are squaring off against environmentalists
and outdoors enthusiasts who fear pollution and a dent in the region's
tourism. Source: Newsday (8/10)

OPINION: Keep lake invaders out with tighter U.S. limits
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Aggressive federal action is needed to prevent zebra mussels and other alien
fish and plants from entering U.S. waters aboard oceangoing ships. Source:
Wisconsin State Journal (8/9)

Hope grows for Raspberry Island light project
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Despite receiving almost no budget increase over the past three years, the
Apostle Island National Lakeshore has found the money to save the lighthouse
on Raspberry Island. Source: The Ashland Daily Press (8/9)

Beach finds are real gems these days
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Beach glass, the colorful fragments of old bottles ground smooth by the
action of sand and water, has become harder to find as people litter less,
even as its popularity in jewelry is increasing. Source: Erie Times-News
(8/9)

Change bears down on historic battlefield
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With construction of a shopping mall next to the historic Fallen Timbers
battlefield due to begin this fall, a new fight is raging over whether the
area will be a tribute to history or to 21st century commerce. Source: The
Toledo Blade (8/8)

MDNR wants to add 600 slips along the North Shore
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Pleasure boat traffic is increasing along Minnesota's Lake Superior shore,
as is the need to provide boaters with protection from the lake's rough
weather and rocky cliffs during storms. Source: Cook County News-Herald
(8/5)

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