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Great Lakes Daily News: 31 October 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Ten threats: Wetlands - where life begins
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Biologists are finding that when people try to get rid of the wetlands between them and their view of the lake, they are also getting rid of the fish that depend on those wetlands for food. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/31)


Ten threats: Saving wetland remnants
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In the years since European settlement, thousands of square miles of important wildlife habitat has been lost as wetlands along the edges of the Great Lakes have been drained and filled. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/31)


EDITORIAL: Government must keep mercury promise
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For the health of all Michigan inhabitants, the state should require the use of new technologies to phase out mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, regardless of potential opposition from the power industry. Source: Eastern Echo (10/31)


Zebra mussels, other intruders ravage lakes
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It is the invasive zebra mussel, not sewage, that is responsible for the swaths of rotting algae and the stink that has plagued Milwaukee-area beaches in recent years. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/30)


Supreme Court will take up wetlands cases
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The Supreme Court has set the stage for what could be a landmark ruling on government authority to regulate wetlands and control pollution. Source: Chesapeake Bay Journal (10/30)


Saved shoreline may become park
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Hundreds of acres of pristine Lake Michigan shoreline could soon become a pseudo-state park - the state would own permanent development and public access rights, but a conservancy would own and operate it. Source: Traverse City Record Eagle (10/30)


Sea of studies doesn't help restore Great Lakes
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After many years of haphazard government stewardship, a broad study effort convened by the Bush administration discovered much agreement on the Great Lakes' troubles. Now the problem is the cost of fixing them. Source: The Washington Post (10/30)


Seaway hasn't lived up to '50s fanfare
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Fifty years after it opened, some are questioning the value of the St. Lawrence Seaway, saying the system was undersized to begin with and doesn't provide enough economic benefits to outweigh the costs imposed by invasive species. First of a three-part series. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/30)


York region's royal flush
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A plan to expand the so-called Big Pipe, a grid that collects raw sewage in the York Region and carries it to a treatment plant on Lake Ontario, is triggering debate over its potential environmental impacts. Source: The Globe and Mail (10/29)


U.S. government funding for Great Lakes will be limited: report
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A long-range project to restore the battered Great Lakes ecosystem likely won't receive the huge infusion of U.S. government cash supporters had hoped for, according a government report released on Friday. Source: CANOE (10/28)


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