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GLIN NEWS: 11 October 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 11 October 2004

A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great

Lakes Radio Consortium.



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GAO: Great Lakes need better monitoring

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A new report from the Government Accounting Office says the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency lacks the information it needs to assess the

overall health of the Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium

(10/11)





Fight for river monitoring continues

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Despite a financial setback, local environmental leaders still hope to add

chemical monitoring equipment to water plants along the St. Clair River.

Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (10/11)





Ideal weather deepens color palette for trees

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Ideal conditions for brilliant fall colors exist in most regions of the

Midwest, except where a lack of rainfall has stressed some trees. Source:

The Detroit News (10/11)





After an 80-day run, high-speed ferry is going nowhere - for now

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The Spirit of Ontario looks to be going nowhere fast after its debt-laden

operator abruptly suspended service on the high-speed ferry Sept. 8. Source:

Booth Newspapers (10/10)





U.S. opens terror base to patrol northern border

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The federal government has opened a base in northeastern New York to stop

terrorists, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants from crossing the nation's

vast northeastern border, including Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Source:

Chicago Tribune (10/10)





Officials want to destroy invasive plants along Lake Erie

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are tapping a global-positioning

system to map the extent of invasive plants in Lake Erie as part of a

national database to spot and track the spread of hardy, unwanted plants.

Source: WEWS-NewsChannel5 (10/10)





Michigan's ash trees doomed by pest

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Once-sprawling green canopies have been laid bare by the destruction wrought

by the invasive emerald ash borer, turning entire neighborhoods into

concrete jungles. Source: The Toledo Blade (10/10)





Researchers studying radar security for Great Lakes

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Erie-area researchers are studying whether low-cost commercial radar might

be used to track vessels on the Great Lakes for homeland security purposes.

Source: NEPA News (10/9)





Toxic spillers face big fines

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The Ontario government will slap large fines on corporations that spill

toxic chemicals, in a move targeted at companies in the St. Clair River's

"Chemical Valley" and elsewhere. Source: The Windsor Star (10/9)





Michigan mounts effort to halt salvage of purported shipwreck

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Michigan has begun legal action to prevent a local man from salvaging a

shipwreck that may be the Griffin, the first European decked ship to sail

the upper Great Lakes. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (10/9)





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