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GLIN NEWS: 28 September 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 28 September 2004 A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium.

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COMMENTARY: We need to keep the ferry afloat
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The Spirit of Ontario is now facing unanticipated financial and bureaucratic challenges that must be overcome to ensure the ferry can again take its place as an engine of economic growth for both sides of Lake Ontario.
Source: National Post (9/28)

EPA, Michigan announce cleanup plan for Detroit River's Black Lagoon
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One of the Detroit River's most toxic hot spots will be the first contaminated sediment site to be cleaned up under the Great Lakes Legacy Act, the U.S.
Source: The Detroit News (9/27)

EDITORIAL: Deal on the Great Lakes needs changes before approval
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A deal to protect the Great Lakes, which is intended to guard Great Lakes water against large-scale diversions, may in fact weaken protections.
Source: The Grand Rapids Press (9/27)

Fund-raising for new park over the top
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Efforts to buy 500 acres of dune property in northwest Ottawa County for a county park have so far raised more than $1 million in pledges -- improving chances of obtaining critical state grants.
Source: Muskegon News Chronicle (9/27)

Tests find dangerous dioxin levels across Bay County
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Harmful levels of the toxic chemicals have been found in the shoreline soils and sediment of the Saginaw River and bay - well beyond the Dow Chemical Co. plant on the Tittabawassee River.
Source: The Bay City Times (9/26)

COMMENTARY: Walleye slowly making Lake Michigan their home
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Incidental reports of walleye certainly increased the last few months, even in Illinois, where a shore angler caught a walleye at Wilmette Harbor in June.
Source: Chicago Sun Times (9/26)

Wolves, deer and wild ginseng
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A healthy Eastern wolf population could help the wild ginseng to flourish in Eastern Ontario, but the wolves are scarce, which means deer proliferate and feed on the once-plentiful medicinal plant.
Source: The Toronto Star (9/25)

Residents talk trash about sewage
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After the sewerage district unleashed billions of gallons of untreated sewage into Lake Michigan this spring, Milwaukee residents let fly their unfettered views on how to set things straight.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/24)

Court deal a win for threatened dragonfly
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Local and national environmental groups declared victory Monday in a battle to boost protection of the endangered Hine's emerald dragonfly.
Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (9/21)

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