GLIN NEWS: 29 April 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 29 April 2008
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> Profiling a lake's 'nasty' invaders
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> The Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory on the tiny historic Gibraltar
> Island in western Lake Erie has hosted generations of students, young
> biologists and leading researchers for more than 100 years. Source:
> The Windsor Star (4/29)
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> Sick loons may be out-of-state visitors
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> Botulism poisoning killed an estimated 7,500 native and migrating
> birds last year along the shorelines between Sleeping Bear National
> Lakeshore, the Straits of Mackinac and along the southern coast of the
> Upper Peninsula. But among the scores of loons killed by botulism, it
> appears many originated from locales other than Michigan. Source:
> Traverse City Record-Eagle (4/29)
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> EDITORIAL: Time for Senate, president to act on invasive species
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> Efforts to get funding for this fight against invasive species have
> not been successful, a reality that Congress and the White House must
> also work hard to rectify. Source: The Sheboygan Press (4/29)
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> Tabled lake-level plan heats debate
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> As public information sessions begin in western New York on a new
> proposal for regulating Lake Ontario water levels, the point of
> contention remains a regulatory plan that's officially not even under
> consideration. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (4/29)
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> DTE targeted over pollution
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> A month from now, DTE Energy officials are expected in Canadian court
> to answer year-old charges of polluting the St. Clair River. Source:
> The Detroit News (4/29)
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> Michigan DNR proposes raising salmon bag limit
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> Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division officials
> are seeking public input on a draft proposal to increase the daily bag
> limit for chinook salmon and coho salmon to five fish per day. Source:
> The Mining Journal (4/29)
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> Mid-Michigan residents to Great Lakes study officials: 'Help us with
> our problems'
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> The International Joint Commission can't do much to bring back water
> levels in the Great Lakes. But the binational agency is studying
> near-historic lows in Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior in hopes of
> finding ways to lessen the negative effects of cyclical changes in the
> basin. Source: The Bay City Times (4/29)
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> Relic hunter wants Canada's help in shipwreck case
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> An American relic hunter who believes he's found one of Canada's most
> important shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan is appealing for
> Canadian heritage officials to get involved in the U.S. legal battle
> over the site. Source: Canwest News Service (4/28)
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> House OKs Coast Guard legislation
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> The U.S. House of Representatives Friday passed the Coast Guard
> Authorization Act, providing $8.4 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard to
> carry out its homeland security and marine safety missions. Source:
> Cheboygan Daily Tribune (4/28)
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