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December 17, 2020
Deer Run Dairy, in Kewaunee, Wis. successfully implements advanced farming technologies. Their work made the farm one of four in the Door-Kewaunee Watershed Demonstration Farm Network that demonstrate best conservation practices to protect the Great Lakes.
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December 16, 2020
The Invasive Mussel Collaborative has announced a decrease in quagga mussel density and reductions in nuisance Cladophora algae at a Lake Michigan test site.
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December 9, 2020
In the 2020 field season, the 1854 Treaty Authority completed significant work assessing lake sturgeon populations in the St. Louis River estuary. These assessments provide a better understanding of sturgeon populations trends, which helps protect this culturally and ecologically important species.
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December 8, 2020
The Ohio Department of Health developed a reference poster and fact sheet on harmful algal bloom (HAB) poisonings in animals to help increase awareness of the risk HAB poisonings pose to animals and improve reporting and treatment for pets.
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November 20, 2020
The Great Waters Research Collaborative is offering $1,825,000 to incentivize a project partnership between Great Lakes vessels and manufacturers of market-available, type-approved ballast water management system manufacturers. Proposals are due Feb. 11, 2021.
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November 18, 2020
The St. Louis River Area of Concern is one step closer to delisting following completion of a contaminated sediment clean-up project at AZCON/Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s Slip in the St. Louis River Area of Concern. The project removed or capped over 55,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.
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November 17, 2020
The U.S. Forest Service is awarding nearly $4.5 million in grants to support 27 Great Lakes forest and coastal ecosystem restoration projects.
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October 30, 2020
In New York, the Great Lakes Commission has worked to restore nearly two miles of shoreline and twenty acres of habitat at eight sites along the lower Buffalo River, supported by NOAA through Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding.
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October 28, 2020
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ electric fish barriers deter the movement of Asian carp and other aquatic nuisance species from passing through the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal and into the Great Lakes. But did you know there were a handful of other sites identified along the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin divide as having a moderate likelihood for the transfer of species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and partners came together to create a barrier at one of these sites that would effectively prevent the transfer of invasive carp species between basins.
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October 27, 2020
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed construction for the final phase of the Fort Sheridan Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration project. The goal for this project is to bring resilience and connectivity to coastal natural habitats and to restore historical native plant communities along 1.5 miles of Lake Michigan.
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