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Great Lakes Daily News: 30 September 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Drilling proposed for state parks, Lake Erie
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As natural gas prices rise, the chairman of the Ohio House Public Utilities and Energy committee is proposing that Ohio open state parks and Lake Erie to drilling for natural gas. Source: The Canton Repository (9/30)


Speaker: Conservation critical for Niagara Escarpment
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Efforts to contain development along the Niagara Escapment are progressing but need more enthusiastic volunteers in the U.S. and Canada, a keynote speaker told a small crowd in Green Bay on Thursday. Source: Green Bay Press Gazette (9/30)


Love of walleye is a moving experience
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Lake Erie is beginning to cool, a signal for schools of walleye to gather off the ports of Vermilion and Huron. They will entertain anglers until the winter weather arrives, and beyond. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/30)


Same lake, different story
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While Chicago residents enjoyed sunning and swimming their beaches this summer, it was a different 90 miles north in Milwaukee, where a combination of factors have left area beaches largely to the birds. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/29)


End of 2 dams to set Cuyahoga River free
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The elimination of two dams will result in a natural Cuyahoga River that is free-flowing from Lake Rockwell Cuyahoga Falls for the first time in more than 160 years and allow canoeists and kayakers to make the trip without portaging. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/29)


Fish are eating too much for own good
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Salmon, first stocked in Lake Michigan 40 years ago to control exotic alewives, have done that job so well they are eating themselves out of house and home. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/29)


COMMENTARY: Fire retardant chemicals may affect wildlife and human health
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Concern is growing that PDBEs, widely used fire retardant chemicals that are turning up in the environments of even remote areas of the world, are negatively affecting wildlife and humans. Source: The Ashland Daily Press (9/28)


Mayor touts wetlands to ease backups
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The dedication of a swamp outside Fort Wayne, Ind., earlier this week capped the end of a two-year, $20 million project to prevent sewage from flooding basements. Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (9/27)


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