Pointe-au-Baril
• In Canada, Alternate Currency Keeps Traction With Fans - May 10
• Wildlife federation gives Michigan poor rating for mining regulatory system - May 10 - (Report)
• A new spawning reef for sturgeon spans the Middle Channel - May 10
• 12-month stretch ending in April is warmest on record, NOAA says - 5/9
• Construction of new rock spawning reefs will help Great Lakes native fish - May 9
• Fruit industry in Ontario devastated by extreme weather - May 9
• Wisconsin's musky reintroduction program has spawned success - 5/9
• Faster study a small step toward stopping carp - May 8
• Army Corps quickens Asian carp study - May 8
• Press Release - May 8
• Barrier Broken? Asian carp electric barrier loses juice and exposes folly of the faux fence - May 7
• Block those carp -- now - May 4
• Ecosystem effects of biodiversity loss could rival impacts of climate change, pollution - May 2
• Ontario is registering long guns - May 1
• Great Lakes said to be on 'crisis pathway' - May 1
• Great Lakes Commission - April Newsletter
• Report: Laws needed to protect Great Lakes from oil spills such as 2010 release in Michigan - "The pipeline that ruptured about 60 miles east of Grand Rapids... runs from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario." - (map) - Apr 30 - (NWF - Report)
• Toronto’s Hilary Weston dubbed richest person in Ireland — for the fourth year in a row. - Apr 30
• Administration Releases 10-Year Global Change Strategic Plan - Apr 27
• Georgian Bay Needs Your Help as Federal Government Budget Cuts Takes its toll - Apr 25
• Feds end biosphere support a year early - Apr 25
• Ontario Weather Review - March 2012 - Apr 25
• Washington Shell Game: The Harbor Maintenance "Trust Fund" - Apr 23
• Eastern massasaugas: Solitary and endangered - Apr 22
1926 General Chart of the Great Lakes - Department of Marine and Fisheries of Canada - Download a full 29.9 MB version - here
• Inventory of Available Controls for Aquatic Nuisance Species of Concern - Apr 18
• ENVIRONMENT: New focus on an old legal doctrine - Apr 18
• Canada Announces Environmental Policy Reforms- Apr 17
• World's armies circle warming, oil-rich Arctic - "in an unprecedented move, the military chiefs of the seven main Arctic powers — Canada, the U.S., Russia, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland — are to gather at a Canadian military base in May to specifically discuss regional security issues." - Apr 16
"Matthew's Bay" by Cecile Gambin
• Thirty years later: Peregrine falcons recovered, thriving in Great Lakes states - Apr 13
• Lake's ecosystem continues to change - Apr 12
• Arctic oil rush will ruin ecosystem, warns Lloyd's of London - Apr 11
• Salties bring no new invaders to Great Lakes, thanks to ‘swish and spit’ process - Apr 11
• Start of 2012, March shatter US heat records - Apr 9
• NASA | Temperature Data: 1880-2011 - 26 sec video
• Great Lakes study recommends changing outflows from Superior - Apr 5
• Report: Ohio unprepared for climate change - Apr 5
• Study: Ozone Layer Slowly Recovering - Apr 4
• New threat to lighthouses illuminated - Apr 3
The Magnificent McCoy's - April 2012 - Photo courtesy of Tiffin's Cottage Care
