GLIN NEWS: 18 March 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 18 March 2008
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> FBI shooting range under fire
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> An environmental group pressing the federal government to remove lead
> from Lake Michigan that came from an FBI firing range made progress in
> court last week. Source: Lake County News-Sun (3/18)
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> Parks, tribal band work to educate people about fish virus
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> Four National Park properties along Lake Superior and the Grand
> Portage Band of Ojibwe announced on Monday a coordinated response to
> the threat of VHS, the deadly fish disease that's spreading across the
> Great Lakes. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/18)
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> Craitor wants a second chance for bill protecting shoreline access
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> Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor will reintroduce his Great Lakes Right
> of Passage bill Thursday. The bill would guarantee the public's right
> to walk freely along the Great Lakes waterfront from water's edge up
> to the high water mark. Source: The Niagara Falls Review (3/18)
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> Great Lakes health threats
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> U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is calling for a federal investigation into
> alleged suppression of a report detailing health threats to
> communities along the Great Lakes, including Waukegan. Source: Lake
> County News-Sun (3/18)
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> Rite of spring: Icebreaking begins on lakes
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> Signs of spring are hard to come by as winter lingers in Michigan, but
> one of the more traditional rites is happening this week on lakes in
> the Upper Peninsula and Muskegon. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (3/18)
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> $40M sought to promote Michigan tourism
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> The Michigan Legislature is considering adding a record $40 million to
> its tourism budget and, for the first time, promote winter recreation.
> Source: Lansing State Journal (3/18)
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> New stamp features Sleeping Bear Dunes
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> The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park's coastal habitat is featured in
> the 10th installment of the U.S. Postal Service's educational stamp
> series Nature of America, which depicts major plant and animal
> communities across the country. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (3/18)
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> Dioxin cleanup near Dow Chemical plant remains on slow track
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> More than a century after Dow Chemical Co. began dumping dioxins into
> a river flowing past its mid-Michigan plant, the company and
> regulators are still debating how to cleanse a swath of waters and
> wetlands that now reaches 50 miles to Lake Huron. Source: The
> Associated Press (3/17)
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> Point Pelee in peril, study finds
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> Man-made harbors and shoreline protection are shrinking Point Pelee
> National Park's famous tip, but the damage doesn't just stop there.
> Source: The Windsor Star (3/17)
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> Illinois governor orders state waters tested for drugs
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> Following reports last week that trace amounts of pharmaceuticals are
> contaminating the nation's drinking water, Governor Rod Blagojevich
> has directed the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to expand
> its water quality monitoring to determine levels of pharmaceuticals
> that may be in Illinois waterways. Source: Environment News Service
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> New York joins Great Lakes Water Resources Compact
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> New York State will join seven other Great Lakes states and two
> Canadian provinces in a formal effort to protect and improve the water
> resources of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin. Source:
> Environment News Service (3/17)
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