TY - JOUR. T1 - Modeled aerosol nitrate formation pathways during wintertime in the great lakes region of North America. AU - Kim, Yoo Jung. AU - Spak, Scott N.. AU - Carmichael, Gregory R.. AU - Riemer, Nicole. AU - Stanier, Charles O.. PY - 2014/11/16. Y1 - 2014/11/16. N2 - Episodic wintertime particle pollution by ammonium nitrate is an important air quality concern across the Midwest U.S. Understanding and accurately forecasting PM2.5 episodes are complicated by multiple pathways for aerosol nitrate formation, each with uncertain rate parameters. Here, the Community Multiscale Air Quality model (CMAQ) simulated regional atmospheric nitrate budgets during the 2009 LADCO Winter Nitrate Study, using integrated process rate (IPR) and integrated reaction rate (IRR) tools to quantify relevant processes. Total nitrate production contributing to PM2.5 episodes is a regional phenomenon, with peak production over the Ohio River Valley and southern Great Lakes. Total nitrate production in the lower ...

Author: D. J. Rezac, D. U. Thomson , M.G. Siemens, F.L. Prouty, C.D. Reinhardt, S. J. Bartle. Journal: J. Dairy Sci. 97 :4227-4235. Abstract: The prevalence and severity of multiple gross pathologic lesions and abnormalities in cull dairy and beef cows was evaluated at a commercial abattoir in the Great Lakes region of the United States; 1,461 cattle were examined at slaughter over the course of 3 production days and evaluated for the occurrence and severity of lung, liver, rumen, and carcass abnormalities and pathologies. Of the 1,461 cattle examined at slaughter, 87% were classified as Holstein cows and 13% were classified as other cows. Liver abscesses were observed in 32% of the population and over half were classified as severe (18.5% population prevalence). The frequency distribution of cattle observed with a liver abscess was not different among production days. Severe ruminal lesions and rumenitis scars were observed in 10.0% of the population, and 25.1% of cattle were observed to have ...

The US Midwest has experienced significant changes in agricultural cropping patterns (i.e., area and rotation pattern changes) since 2005. Ongoing agricultural land use change is likely to be partly due to rising corn prices and subsidies implemented by the US government to encourage corn ethanol production. The US Department of Agricultures (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS) reported that corn acreage is often related to the decrease of other agriculture crops (i.e., soybean and winter wheat) and pasture land (Westcott, 2007); Keeney and Hertel, 2009). Remove sensing-base crop rotation study indicated that traditional crop rotation (i.e., corn-soybean) is being replaced by continuous corn plantings (Stern et al., 2008; Lunetta et al., 2010; Secchi et al., 2011) across the Great Lakes Basin (GLB). Shifts toward more intensive corn production may cause a number of negative environmental consequences with respect to water quality, soil fertility, biodiversity, and overall ...

197,022 to the Product Stewardship Institute to prevent the release of mercury from discarded thermostats and auto switches in the Chicago area. The Institute will work with the operators of 380 auto dismantling facilities and 5,400 heating contractors and wholesalers in the Chicago area to promote proper mercury disposal and to provide incentives to participate in collection programs for mercury-containing products. $150,000 to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (based in Minnesota) to provide businesses that use toxic chemicals with green chemistry tools and information about safer alternatives. Workshops will be held for businesses throughout the Great Lakes region. Over the last three years, GLRI has provided more than $11 million for pollution prevention projects to improve Great Lakes water quality by reducing or eliminating waste at the source, promoting the use of non-toxic or less-toxic substances, implementing conservation techniques, and re-using materials. ...

The National Sea Grant office awarded multi-million dollar funds to boost the number of fish farms in the Great Lakes region of North America, US, Great Lakes Echo reported.. Aquaculture refers to raising fish both to eat and to stock streams and lakes. The industry in the Great Lakes region lags behind much of the US, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The regions contribution to the industry is considered insignificant compared to coastal areas.. The National Sea Grant office awarded the funds to the new Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative. The group brings together scientists and educators from all eight states in the Great Lakes basin.. Listening to fish farmers is the first-year focus, said Amy Schrank, a fisheries and aquaculture extension educator from Minnesota Sea Grant who leads the project. The goal is to identify common challenges that might lead to solutions and further research.. Dispelling the myths that aquaculture threatens the fishing industry ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking pre-proposals for conservation projects to restore Great Lakes fish and wildlife resources and their habitats through its Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2009. This program provides federal grants on a competitive basis to states, tribes and other interested entities to encourage cooperative conservation, restoration and management of fish and wildlife resources and their habitat in the Great Lakes basin. The projects are funded under authority of the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 2006. Pre-proposals are due on January 23, 2009. More information about the program, the request for proposals and the pre-proposal form can be obtained from: http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Fisheries/glfwra-grants.html . Please distribute this announcement to your partners in the Great Lakes. Contact Rick Westerhof if you have questions about the pre-proposal process. Rick can be reached at 231-584-3553 or at ...

The Lake Basin fault zone consists mainly of en echelon NE-striking normal faults that have been interpreted to be surface expressions of left-lateral movement along a basement wrench fault. Information gathered from recent field mapping of coal beds and from shallow, closely-spaced drill holes resulted in detailed coal bed correlations, which revealed another linear zone of en echelon faulting directly on the extended trend of the Lake Basin fault zone. This faulted area, referred to as the Sarpy Creek area, is located 48 km E of Hardin, Montana. It is about 16 km long, 13 km wide, and contains 21 en echelon normal faults that have an average strike of N 63oE. We therefore extend the Lake Basin fault zone 32 km farther SE than previously mapped to include the Sarpy Creek area. The Ash Creek oil field, Wyoming, 97 km due S of the Sarpy Creek area, produces from...

Book Summary: Draws on the authors own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes regions experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes regions experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner, teacher, and Great Lakes activist, Margaret Wooster describes the language, history, and failures of many of our water management policies. She then turns to Buffalo Creek to teach us how the Great Lakes work-from a hill made of water to a cut-off oxbow to a buried delta transitioning from two centuries of industrialization. Wooster explores how, on the Niagara Frontier especially, traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous values were suppressed by colonial rules of settlement. The ecosystem value of physical integrity-or connectivity between upstream and down, surface flow to aquifer, river to land was ...

President Yoweri Museveni has met the visiting leaders of the Great Lakes who have been in Kampala to attend the International Conference on the region.. President Museveni held talks with the leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mr. Joseph Kabila, at State House, Entebbe with whom he discussed bilateral issues between the 2 ...

These sources were used to assist in developing avoidance measures and management guidelines for the Wisconsin DNR rare plant Web pages.. Adams, M. S. 1970. Adaptations of Aplectrum hyemale to the environment: effects of preconditioning temperature on net photosynthesis. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 97:219-224.. Barnes, B. V., and W. H. Wagner, Jr. 2004. Michigan trees: a guide to the trees of the Great Lakes region. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.. Black, M. R., and E. J. Judziewicz. 2008. Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. Wisconsin: Cornerston Press.. Case, F. W. Jr. 1987. Orchids of the western Great Lakes region. Revised edition. Cranbrook Institute of Science.. Chadde, S. W. 2011. Wetland plants of Wisconsin: A complete guide to the wetland and aquatic plants of the Badger State.. Cobb, B., E. Farnsworth, C. Lowe, and L. L. Foster. 2005. A field guide to ferns and their related familes: northeastern and central North America. 2nd ed. New York: Houghton and ...

In the mid-seventeenth century the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade and the trade between European markets and the tribes of the western Great Lakes region. A series of brutal conflicts erupted between the Iroquois Confederation, (largely Mohawk), and the largely Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great Lakes region. Known as the French and Iroquois Wars, or Beaver Wars, they were of extreme brutality and are considered one of the bloodiest series of conflicts in the history of North America. The resultant enlargement of Iroquois territory realigned the tribal geography of North America, destroying several large tribal confederacies-including the Hurons, Neutrals, Eries, and Susquehannocks-and pushing other eastern tribes west of the Mississippi River. Both Algonquian and Iroquoian societies were greatly disturbed by these wars. Attempting to avoid the battles, the Potawatomi moved northward into Wisconsin. The tribe adapted well, growing corn, gathering ...

The first meeting of the a forum for Stakeholders Engagement for Informed Decision-making, Threats Mitigation and Sustainable Freshwater Services Managem...

The Canadian Forest Service promotes the sustainable development of Canadas forests and the competitiveness of the Canadian forest sector

Written by John OSullivan, special to Climate Change Fraud , 09 August 2010 600°F in Egg Harbor, WI? Yikes!UPDATE 8-10-2010: It would appear CoastWatch has removed the original image. Never fear, its shown here on the right. Please see authors addendum at end of article.. Global warming data apparently cooked by U.S. government-funded body shows astounding temperature fraud with increases averaging 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.. The tax-payer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired in fresh global warming data scandal involving numbers for the Great Lakes region that substantially ramp up averages.. A beleaguered federal agency appears to be implicated in the most blatant and extreme case of climate data fraud yet seen. Official records have been confirmed as evidence that a handful of temperature records for the Great Lakes region have been hiked up by literally hundreds of degrees to substantially inflate the average temperature range for the ...

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, in which the US and Canada agreed to restore and preserve the biolgoical, physical and chemical integrity of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem, was first signed in 1972. In 1987, a Protocol was signed by both governments which defined Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) as geographic areas that fail to meet the general or specific objectives of the agreement where such failure has caused or is likely to cause impairment or beneficial use of the areas ability to support aquatic life. The U.S. and Canadian governments identified 43 such areas; 26 in the U.S., 12 in Canada and five shared between the U.S. and Canada on connecting river systems. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, as amended via the 1987 protocol, directs the two federal governments to cooperate with state and provincial governments to develop and implement Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) for each AOC. The Protocol also called for reports on restorative progress and for the International ...

An investigation of the occurrence of phosporus, other nutrients, and triazine herbicides in water samples from the Hillsdale Lake Basin in northeast Kansas was conducted from May 1994 through May 1995. Point-source and nonpoint-source contributions of these water-quality constituents were estimated by conducting synoptic sampling at 48 sites in the basin during five periods of low- flow conditions. Samples were collected for the determination of nutrients, including total phosphorus as phosphorus, dissolved orthophosphate as phosphorus, total nitrite plus nitrate as nitrogen, and total ammonia plus organic nitrogen as nitrogen, and for selected triazine herbicides. On the basis of criteria developed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Hillsdale Water-Quality Protection Project established a goal to maintain water quality in the tributaries of the Hillsdale Lake Basin at a mean annual low-flow total phosphorus concentration...

Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure explores in depth over 30 of the Great Lakes Basin islands accessible by bridge or ferry and introduces more than 50 additional islands. Thirty-eight chapters include helpful information about getting to each featured island, what to expect when you get there, the islands history, and what natural and historical sites and cultural attractions are available to visitors. Each chapter lists special island events, where to get more island information, and how readers can help support the island. Author Maureen Dunphy made numerous trips to a total of 135 islands that are accessible by ferry or bridge in the Great Lakes Basin. On each trip, Dunphy was accompanied by a different friend or relative who provided her another adventurers perspective through which to view the island experience. Great Lakes Island Escapes covers islands on both sides of the international border between the United States and Canada and features islands in both ...

DISCLAIMER This report to the Science Advisory Board from the Workgroup on Ecosystem Health was carried out as part of Board activities related to the 1995-97 Priorities under Priority 1 -- Persistent Toxic Substances: Impact on Humans and Ecosystem Health. While the Commission supported this work, the specific conclusions and recommendations do not necessarily represent the views of the International Joint Commission, the Science Advisory Board or its workgroups. Workshop Rationale During the past 30 years, there has been a growing knowledge among epidemiologists and pediatricians of the occurrence of developmental effects on human fetuses and infants following exposure to toxic substances. Similarly, since the 1960s, wildlife biologists have reported observations of reproductive and developmental effects of toxic substances in populations of wildlife, particularly in the Great Lakes basin. Human health researchers, working in the Great Lakes basin, have reported subtle perinatal effects on ...

Older research outputs will score higher simply because theyve had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 329,280 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 16th percentile - i.e., 16% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it ...

A report by the Great Lakes Water Quality Board that presents the key findings of a poll conducted in 2018 of U.S. and Canadian citizens in the Great Lakes basin related to Great Lakes Water Quality. The poll was the second conducted by the WQB and follows the first poll which was completed in 2015 ...

The Great Lakes Environmental Directory is an extensive resource of environmental organizations, issues and events in the Great Lakes Basin, including Great Lakes environmental articles,Great Lakes environmental organizations, and Great Lakes environment events.The Great Lakes Directory discusses exotic species,water quailty,water and air pollution,Great Lakes habitat,Lake Superior,Lake Michigan,Lake Huron,Lake Erie,Lake Ontario,Great Lakes ecology,Great Lakes issues,water export,mercury and Great Lakes wetlands. The Great Lakes Directory offers advocacy tools,Great Lakes grants,Great Lakes links and Great Lakes government resources.

Goals:. The Great Lakes are threatened by invasive species, pollution, and emerging commercial aquaculture proposals, creating a need for state and federal policies that protect the Great Lakes and sustained public funding for Great Lakes restoration efforts. Adding to the challenge, political shifts at state and federal levels have made it more difficult to uphold environmental regulations and maintain public funding for environmental restoration.. To address these challenges, a powerful constituency of recreational anglers needs to be mobilized. Recreational fishing in the Great Lakes is a major economic contributor to local economies, and fishing is an important part of the lives of the 1.6 million anglers who fish in the Great Lakes region and millions more who visit and enjoy the Great Lakes states. By educating and engaging Trout Unlimited members and other anglers, strength will be added to current Great Lakes advocacy efforts and advance our shared goals of protecting and restoring the ...

A Simon Fraser University fish-population statistician, working in collaboration with non-government organization scientists, has uncovered evidence of a potentially deadly virus in a freshwater sport fish in B.C.

Under the auspices of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration and its Habitat-Species Work Group, the Great Lakes Commission conducted nine one-day workshops across the Great Lakes region, one in each of the eight Great Lakes states and one dedicated to the tribal communities within the U.S. drainage basin to the lakes. These workshops were conducted ...

For over 50 years, UW-Superior has been a leader in advanced research on freshwater bodies like Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes. From endangered species monitoring to beach and wetland management to aquatic toxicity testing, our faculty, staff, and students have been national leaders in studying and helping conserve these vital waters to benefit the people, industries, and resources of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.. Thats why this year we purchased the only land-based ballast water technology testing facility in the Great Lakes region, which is also one of only two such facilities in the United States, in an effort to further study ways to prevent the spread of invasive species through ballast water.. The facility will allow UW-Superiors Lake Superior Research Institute (LSRI), founded in 1967, to deploy ballast water treatment strategies that demonstrate success in a laboratory environment on a larger scale using Great Lakes harbor water. It will provide tremendous new research ...

The Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup is a first-of-its-kind initiative using innovative technology to quickly remove plastics at marinas from Lake Ontario to Lake Superior and everywhere in between. The litter collected will be analyzed and valuable plastics will be recovered, to be redirected back into the recycling system and creating reuse opportunities. Throughout, well be working with lake communities and businesses to keep plastics out of our environment and waterways to protect the Great Lakes region, now and for future generations. ...

Mercury has been recognized as a neurotoxin that can accumulate in fish that might be consumed later by animals and humans. Beginning in the 1970s, numerous factors have resulted in reduced mercury releases in the Great Lakes Region including the Clean Water Act, Mercury Export Ban Act, sulfur and nitrous oxide controls, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Rule, and changes in energy production from coal to natural gas. However, the connection between the resultant reduced air emissions and fish tissue concentrations has been difficult to establish.. Currently (2019), there are fish consumption advisories for elevated concentrations of mercury in consumable fish from all five Great Lakes, yet natural resource managers in this region are hampered by a poor understanding of how mitigation of sources relates to bioaccumulation responses and effects, which hampers effective strategies to reduce exposure levels for fish and people who consume them.. Therefore, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists on ...

For two hectic days in mid-November, over 25 advocates representing environmental and conservation interests, municipalities, business, and industry came together in Ottawa for the second annual Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Parliament Hill Days. Organized by Freshwater Future, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, the Council of the Great Lakes Region and the […]. ...

Rapidly escalating fossil fuel development is posing new threats to the Great Lakes region. Left unchecked, a surge in oil and gas development in the bi-national Great Lakes could reverse recent gains made in the basin, as well as threaten public safety and air and water quality. This post highlights concerns about the impacts of fossil fuel development in the Great Lakes and opportunities for funder collaboration in response.

This research examines multiple factors that were previously used to describe where LEED-certified homes locations from 2008 to 2015 in the Great Lakes states. This study includes an analysis of 1,040 buildings located in 144 cities across six Great Lakes states. Along with the data in the LEED homes dataset, LEED homes locations are compared using three climate factors: heating degree days, cooling degree days, and average annual temperature. Socioenvironmental factors hypothesized to influence the location of LEED-verified buildings included the city population, the citys total area, water area, percent water area, land area, population density, and housing density. Two datasets incorporated these variables to study their influence on LEED home density in the Great Lakes region using univariate and multivariate statistical methods. The climate factors in this study are not statistically significant variables, and will not describe the diffusion of LEED-certified homes. Socio-environmental factors had

Project Information. Exhuming the Rust Belt. CDFs are transitional landscapes. Every deposit of sediment brings a mix of seed, agricultural fertilizer, and biophysical remnants of an industrialized watershed, all of which support spontaneous, sometimes invasive, vegetation. A handful of active CDFs are networked into local industrial ecologies in order to provide material for road construction and landfill caps. As CDFs close, they are either incorporated into other types of infrastructure, such as airports and harbor facilities, or cultivated as wildlife preserves.. The 20 currently active CDFs in the Great Lakes region are more than 80% full, and a dredging backlog is accumulating. [1] Harbors on Lake Erie, situated in the heart of the American Rust Belt, are approaching a point of crisis. CDFs at Toledo, Cleveland, and Lorain Harbor have less than five years capacity remaining and among the highest demand for disposal in the Great Lakes. Pointe Mouillée, located at the mouth of the Rouge ...

There are many threats facing our waters and communities in the Great Lakes region such as Fracking, Asian Carp, Coal Tar Seal-coats and Lake Erie Algal Blooms.

Birds of Coastal Michigan More than 140 species of birds depend on Michigans coastal habitat during their life cycle. Coastal wetlands, beaches, sand dunes and remote islands provide food and shelter for both resident and migratory species. Waterfowl such as Canvasback and Scaup are among the many species that use coastal wetlands as stopover sites to rest and refuel. Shorebirds including the endangered piping plover fly thousands of miles to nest on undisturbed beaches and remote Great Lakes islands. Because of their use of the coastal lands, there are thousands of great locations to see both resident and migratory bird species throughout Michigan and the Great Lakes region. State parks, national parks, wildlife refuges and sanctuaries throughout the state all provide good bird-watching opportunities. Some sites along Michigans Great Lakes shoreline are even considered birding hotspots due to the number of species that pass through each spring and fall. Explore the All About Birds (The Cornell Lab

Birds of Coastal Michigan More than 140 species of birds depend on Michigans coastal habitat during their life cycle. Coastal wetlands, beaches, sand dunes and remote islands provide food and shelter for both resident and migratory species. Waterfowl such as Canvasback and Scaup are among the many species that use coastal wetlands as stopover sites to rest and refuel. Shorebirds including the endangered piping plover fly thousands of miles to nest on undisturbed beaches and remote Great Lakes islands. Because of their use of the coastal lands, there are thousands of great locations to see both resident and migratory bird species throughout Michigan and the Great Lakes region. State parks, national parks, wildlife refuges and sanctuaries throughout the state all provide good bird-watching opportunities. Some sites along Michigans Great Lakes shoreline are even considered birding hotspots due to the number of species that pass through each spring and fall. Explore the All About Birds (The Cornell Lab

King Bio Homeopathic Allergy 2 Regional Mix Great Lakes U.S. is a natural allergy formula that helps promote relief from allergies in the Great Lakes region.

Obviously, Mike, You couldnt be bothered to read the actual literature. I cannot do more than point you in the right direction.. Your theory completely ignores the fact that even with global warming there is *still* weather. I believe this past spring has been characterized as the 3rd warmest on record, but yet there the ice sits on parts of Lake Superior. Why? Local/regional weather variation. The Great Lakes region was one of the few spots in the northern hemisphere that didnt partake in the warming.. In context, the average over the past 31 years is 51.2% ice coverage on Lake Superior. The lowest coverage was 9.5% in the 1998 El Nino year. In the 20 years of the 80s and 90s (your period of warming) 7 years were at or below average - 7 of 20 Since then (16 years) all but 2003, 2010 and 2014 have been below average; 13 out of 16. Isnt that an indication of continued warming? Or should conclusions only be drawn from the outliers?. This past spring the globe was at near record highs, but the ...

Operating Hours. WESTFIELD - WEST LAKES Friday, 13 December - 9:00am - midnight Friday, 20 December - 9:00am - midnight BURNSIDE VILLAGE. For a small fee you can take a train ride through the decorated park around the lake. Spas in West Lakes; Health/Fitness Clubs & Gyms in West Lakes; Popular West Lakes Categories. 8:00 AM-9:00 PM. Make your way to Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, Auburn Hills favorite shopping and dining district. Left on Joslyn. Mon. Magic wands and spell books! Prime Rib Prix Fixe - Saturdays. Christmas Day is not the day you want to wake in a panic, suddenly realizing you dont have an item you need to make the day special for you and yours. Whoever coined that phrase obviously hasnt tasted Christmas Ales fresh honey, ... Sourced locally from the Great Lakes region with much gratitude for our buzzing friends. But many of the parks roads, trails, and facilities are closed seasonally due to snow. All opening hours of Bernina West Electro stores open on 25 December ...

Freshwater snorkeling is opening a window on Tennessees river biodiversity. Could a similar effort in the Great Lakes region build a consitutency for

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 14, 2008 (ENS) - For Earth Day 2008, the U.S. EPA Great Lakes region invites public help to collect at least one…

Black Lake Basin includes almost 5,000 acres that drain into one of the largest lakes in Thurston County. Historically, Black Lake was the headwaters of the Black River system, but since the excavation of the Black Lake Ditch in 1922, it has been linked hydrologically to Percival Creek and drains into Puget Sound via Budd Inlet. The basin is moderately impacted by development, with less than 10 percent of covered by impervious surfaces (e.g., roads and parking lots) and reduced tree canopy. Algal blooms are a recurring and increasing problem in Black Lake. Black Lake Ditch, which drains the lake at its northern end, violates fecal coliform and dissolved oxygen standards.. In the coming decades, the Black Lake Basin, which includes northwestern Tumwater and its unincorporated urban growth area, will see new commercial and residential development under current zoning. This growth could increase the amount of impervious surfaces and stormwater runoff, exacerbating water quality issues. The aim of ...

The State of Michigan is located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe word mishigama, meaning \large water\ or \large

Located in the heart of Central Lower Michigan, Isabella County was once one of the most magnificent pine and hardwood areas in all of the Great Lakes region. It was part of the Indians winter hunting grounds and was called Ojibiway Besse (the place of the Chippewa). Isabella County is proud to be home to Central Michigan University, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and the City of Mount Pleasant. Learn more about Isabella County › ...

Although NOAA is known for its work in marine habitats, the agency has resource management, stewardship, research, and monitoring responsibilities for many freshwater ecosystems. NOAA satellites monitor the water supply for the planet, mapping snow and ice fields and providing predictions of where, when, and in what volume water for drinking and agriculture will be available. River level forecasts are a key component of the agencys mission to protect life and property as well as manage navigability of waterways. Monitoring and managing the freshwater habitats of anadromous fish like the Pacific salmon in partnership with local agencies is another key role in freshwater environments. NOAAs presence in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. represents one of the largest agency operations dealing with freshwater. Great Lake coastal zone issues, historic and ecosystem sanctuaries, freshwater estuaries, environmental monitoring, and fishery management research are all part of NOAAs operations. ...

How Safe is Your Favorite Beach? A few weeks ago a new report was released from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). They collected 3,485 samples of water from recreational beaches along both coasts and the Great Lakes region. The report revealed that 10% of the samples collected failed to meet the new federal

Read the final letter here.. A letter in support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative fiscal year 2018 funding is circulating in the House of Representatives and the deadline has been extended. Were asking Representatives in the Great Lakes region to sign on to urge President Trump to include $300 million in his FY 2018 budget. The deadline is today, Thursday, February 9 - we hope that Coalition members and partners can make calls to Representatives asking that they sign on to this letter. The letter is being circulated by Reps. Sander Levin (D-Mich.), David Joyce (R-Ohio), and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.).. There are 47 sign-ons so far: Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Rick Nolan (D-Minn.), Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.), Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), Luis ...

Please join us for a brown bag discussion of graduate student Tovar Cerullis research. His talk is titled Hunting, Wolves, and Words: A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Discourses Concerning the Gray Wolf in the Western Great Lakes Region. The event will take place on Friday, Oct. 31, at noon in the Communication Hub, located on the third floor of the Integrative Learning Center.. ...

In the Great Lakes region, farmland is rapidly being developed into homes, office parks and shopping centers. Nationally, farmland is lost at a rate of more than 9-thousand acres a day. But in order for this development to happen, someone has to sell their land. In the first of a two-part series on farmers and the decisions they make about their land, the Great Lakes Radio Consortiums Tamara Keith introduces us to some farmers who have made the difficult choice to sell:. ...

International conference to bring good news from the Great Lakes New eco-efficient farming practices have triggered a series of mini-Green Revolutions in the Great Lakes region of Africa, and will be the focus of a forthcoming international conference in Rwanda. The new techniques are based on so-called sustainable intensification -a concept recently championed by the UKs chief scientific adviserRead More …. ...

Canadian gray wolves are by all accounts thriving in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes region, but getting the wolfs removal from the Endangered Species List wont be easy.

A Conference of Dominicans of the countries of the Great Lakes of Africa (Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda ) was organized from 13-17 July 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya to explore how the Dominican Order can contribute more towards building peace in the region that has suffered wars for many decades. The Coordinator of the meeting, Fr. Mike Deeb (The Dominican Delegate to the UN and the Orders General Promoter of Justice & Peace) reminded the delegates that this meeting was the materialization of one of the resolutions made during the first meeting of the Dominican Promoters for Justice and Peace of the whole Dominican Family in October 2013 in Johannesburg (South Africa). The meeting was warmly hosted by the brothers, sisters and lay Dominicans based in Nairobi and it was facilitated by Mr. John Katunga of CRS (Catholic Relief Services).. Of the 37 participants (26 men and 11 women), 16 were leaders or representatives of the Dominican entities present in Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, ...

Contaminant (primarily polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins, and a variety of pesticides) occurrence in harbor and stream sediments in the industrialized portions the Great Lakes has been well documented. However, the link between the contaminants and health threats to individual organisms or entire populations is not well defined.. USGS Environmental Health Teams conducted research relevant to understand health threats to an indicator species (tree swallows-Tachycineta bicolor) in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Tree swallows are an ideal test species because they nest throughout the region, feed locally on aerial stages of aquatic insects, and as a result have close ties to sediment contamination. This research was done in partnership with Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.. The Initiative began in 2010 with a renewed effort to assess and restore, where needed, contaminated harbors and rivers across the Great Lakes at 31 specific Areas of Concern ...

This detailed report provides environmental information about the Great Lakes basin ecosystem. Covers: Salmon and Trout, Walleye, Preyfish Populations, Sea Lamprey, Native Freshwater Mussels, Lake Trout, Benthos Diversity and Abundance - Aquatic Oligochaete Communities, Phytoplankton Populations, Phosphorus Concentrations and Loadings, Contaminants in Young-of-the-Year Spottail Shiners, Contaminants in Colonial Nesting Waterbirds,p, Atmospheric Deposition of Toxic Chemicals [air quality], Toxic Chemical Concentrations in Offshore Waters, Concentrations of Contaminants in Sediment Cores, Contaminants in Whole Fish, Hexagenia, Abundances of the Benthic Amphipod Diporeia spp, External Anomaly Prevalence Index for Nearshore Fish., Status of Lake Sturgeon in the Great Lakes, Commercial/Industrial Eco-Efficiency Measures,p,Drinking Water Quality, Biological Markers of Human Exposure to Persistant Chemicals, Beach Advisories, Postings and Closures, Contaminants in Sport Fish, Air Quality, Coastal ...

Viewpoints differ about the impact of wolves on livestock and pets since wolves were placed back on the endangered species list. Both sides had a chance to weigh in Thursday, on whether or not wolves in the western Great Lakes region should be returned to control of the states.. Karen Laumb lives near the Twin Cities and grew up with farm roots in Chippewa County, Minnesota. At the Great Lakes Wolf Summit in Cumberland, Laumb said she understands both sides, but does not support returning to state wolf management - as the majority of those in attendance did.. Some are farmers with true concerns about affects on their livestock. Thats real. But there are also some people who just really want to go out and kill wolves, Laumb said.. AUDIO: Larry Lee reports 1:05 Marathon County dairy farmer Ryan Klussendorf said wolf predation has cost him far more than livestock - animal stress, sheriffs calls about loose cattle, and a huge expense.. We now keep all our calves up in the barns, close to ...

Citation: Shepherd, B.S., Rees, C.B., Binkowski, F., Goetz, F. 2012. Characterization and evaluation of sex-specific expression of suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) -1 and -3 in juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens) treated with lipopolysaccharide. Fish and Shellfish Immunology. 33:468-481. Interpretive Summary: Yellow perch are highly prized as a recreational and food fish. The strong demand for yellow perch in the Midwest traditionally has been met by a commercial wild-capture fishery. Recent declines in wild stocks of the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada, and restrictions on capture fisheries, have fueled the need for aquaculture production as a means to meet increasing demand for yellow perch. However, expansion of yellow perch aquaculture has been limited by the slow growth of this species in aquaculture settings. Additionally, growth in yellow perch is sexually-dimorphic wherein females grow larger and faster than males; such size discrepancies pose further difficulties ...

A plentiful supply of yellow perch was once available in the U.S. Great Lakes region, but that changed in the 1990s. Populations of this Midwest fish-fry favorite dropped dramatically due to the invasion of the zebra mussel, ...

The Centers for Disease Control is postponing the release of a report detailing areas of environmental concern and human health problems in the Great Lakes region. Living on Earth host Steve Curwood talks with Christopher De Rosa, who was director of the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine at the CDC and oversaw the report. De Rosa was demoted when his work on toxins in the Great Lakes, and on formaldehyde in FEMA trailers for Hurricane Katrina survivors, was publicized.

Gable, T. D., S. K. Windels, J. G. Bruggink, and S. M. Barber-Meyer. 2018. Weekly summer diet of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Northeastern Minnesota. American Midland Naturalist 179:15-27.. Gable, T. D., S. K. Windels, and J. G. Bruggink. 2017. The problems with pooling poop: confronting sampling method biases in wolf (Canis lupus) diet studies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95:843-851.. Gable, T. G., S. K. Windels, and J. G. Bruggink. 2017. Estimating biomass of berries consumed by gray wolves. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41:129-131.. Gable, T. D., S. K. Windels, J. G. Bruggink, and A. T. Homkes. 2016. Where and how wolves (Canis lupus) kill beavers (Castor canadensis). PLoS ONE 11(12):e0165537.. Bruggink, J. G., E. J. Oppelt, K. E. Doherty, D. E. Andersen, J. Meunier, and R. S. Lutz. 2013. Fall survival of American woodcock in the western Great Lakes Region. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1021-1030.. Severud, W. J., S. K. Windels, J. L. Belant, and J. G. Bruggink. 2013. The role of forage ...

Hypericum kalmianum, commonly called Kalm St. Johns wort, is a small, dense, evergreen shrub or subshrub with upright branching that typically grows in a dense mound to 2-3 tall. It is native to the Great Lakes region of the U.S. where it typically occurs in rocky to sandy soils, ranging from relatively dry open woods to moist lakeshore areas. Narrow, linear-oblong, stalkless, bluish-green leaves (to 2 long) in pairs on distinctive 4-angled stems are evergreen but some may drop in winter. Five-petaled, golden yellow flowers (1.5-inch diameter) in 3- to 7-flowered cymes bloom in mid to late summer (July-August). Each flower has five styles and a distinctive center boss of yellow stamens. Flowers give way to beaked, oval, brown seed capsules that mature in fall and often persist on the shrub until spring. Leaves are dotted with tiny glands ...

Sea lampreys feed off the blood of large fish, including trout, salmon, whitefish, carp, catfish and sturgeon. The sea lamprey is native to the Atlantic Ocean but infiltrated the Great Lakes region...

The Aronia bush is a deciduous shrub native to North America, where it can be found growing wild in the Great Lakes region. The plant was introduced to Russia in the early 1900s and subsequently cultivated throughout central and eastern Europe. The bush is exceptionally resistant to pollution and pests. With their antioxidant properties due to high levels of anthocyanins and tannins, its berries are rapidly gaining status as a superfood. It is used in medicine to help with high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, liver failure, DNA degradation and colon cancer. Aronia is also used to produce jam, jelly, beer, wine, vodka, and textile dyes. In 2010, artist Bartaku developed for the first time an edible, dye-sensitized photovoltaic technology using Aronia berries. He also used Aronia juice as a key active agent for the Temporary photoElectric Digestopians (TpED), a series of co-creation worklabs and one outcome of his ongoing interest in humanitys eternal struggle to access energy. These ...

Furthermore, besides being the sole provider of rail service in southwestern Australia with about 3,170 miles of tracks and owning 30 port terminals primarily in the U.K. and across Europe, Brookfield has more than 6,630 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines in the U.S. and 300 Bcf of natural gas storage in North America.. Another great MLP is Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE:ETP). This MLP currently owns and operates approximately 43,000 miles of pipelines of natural gas, NGL and crude oil. It also owns 100% of Holdco, a company that in turn owns Southern Union and Sunoco, as well as 70% interest in Lone Star NGL, a joint-venture that owns and operates NGL storage, fractionation and transportation assets.. Southern interstate pipeline accounts for more than 10,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas to major markets in the Southeast, Midwest and Great Lakes region. Sunocos retail business markets Sunocos gasoline brand through about 5,000 retail outlets in 23 ...

Iodine Deficiency. By Robert Sarver. Dr. David Brownstein has a US medical practice dealing primarily with thyroid patients. He has been quite successful treating hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism with the iodine/iodide supplement Iodoral that is available over the Internet without prescription.. Dr. Brownstein believes that the usual thyroid medication prescribed by doctors is the wrong treatment because it does not deal with the underlying iodine deficiency problem. All cells in the body need iodine for proper functioning.. All glands (thyroid, adrenal, etc.) especially need iodine for the production of hormones. Dr. Brownstein believes that iodine deficiency is a major cause of breast cancer and other diseases of the reproductive organs such as ovarian, uterus and prostrate cysts and cancers.. Iodine levels in US soil have fallen 50 per cent over the past 50 years and soil in the US is deficient in iodine. The Great Lakes region has some of lowest soil iodine levels in the world and this ...

Rwanda is a small and quite densely populated country in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. It is also known as The Land of a Thousand Hills. Rwanda has been a distinct entity from pre-colonial times. It was colonised by Germany in 1884 (as part of German East Africa), then by Belgium in 1916, before achieving independence in 1962. Ethnic tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi cultural groups led to periodic episodes of violence, including the 1994 genocide. In the aftermath of the genocide there was a period of reconciliation and justice with associated improvement in economic, health and social indicators. Tea and coffee cultivation are the major cash crops and growth agricultural industries, facilitated by Rwandas climate and geography. Mining is a significant contributor to export income. The services sector has started to recover after the late 2000s recession, including banking and communications, and particularly tourism, which is now the main source of foreign income and is ...

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa in the African Great Lakes region.. It is bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south.. The countrys eastern border is formed by the Indian Ocean.. Kilimanjaro, Africas highest mountain, is in northeastern Tanzania.. The country is divided into 30 administrative regions: five on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and 25 on the mainland in the former Tanganyika.. The head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005.. Since 1996, the official capital of Tanzania has been Dodoma, where the National Assembly and some government offices are located.. Between independence and 1996, the main coastal city of Dar es Salaam served as the countrys political capital.. It remains Tanzanias principal commercial city and is the main location of ...

Rev. Mitabu mentioned that people who become re-traumatized at the commemoration events are no longer taken to the hospital, but instead are brought to the TFT practitioners. However, one ceremony continued into the night. The TFT practitioners left, thinking they were only to work during the day. A severely traumatized young man was taken to the hospital that night; completely unconscious. However, Red Cross workers brought him to the TFT practitioners the next morning. The young man fully recovered and thanked them.. April is over, and the TFT practitioners can finally get some well-deserved rest. However, Rev. Mitabu will be teaching TFT to some group somewhere in the Great Lake Region of Africa, and the world will be better for it, you can be sure.. Energy psychology has made a positive impact on the lives of many suffering from trauma in Rwanda, and some Rwandans, like Rev. Mitabu are reaching out, not only to their neighboring communities, but to their neighboring countries in the Great ...

summarised as follows:. Marc Otte was appointed EUSR for the Middle East peace process on 14 July 2003;. Erwan Fouéré was appointed EUSR for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on 17 October 2005;. Peter Semneby was appointed EUSR for the South Caucasus on 20 February 2006;. Pierre Morel was appointed EUSR for Central Asia on 5 October 2006;. Roeland van de Geer was appointed EUSR for the Great Lakes Region on 14 February 2007;. Kálmán Mizsei was appointed EUSR for Moldova on 15 February 2007;. Torben Brylle was appointed EU special representative (EUSR) for Sudan on 19 April 2007;. Miroslav Lajcák was appointed EUSR for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 18 June 2007;. Koen Vervaeke was appointed EUSR to the African Union (AU) on 6 December 2007;. Pieter Feith was appointed EUSR in Kosovo on 4 February 2008;. Ettore Francesco Sequi was appointed EUSR for Afghanistan on 24 July 2008; and. Pierre Morel was also appointed EUSR for the crisis in Georgia on 25 September 2008.. ...

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Posted on 09/08/2010 11:17:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge. An invasive species of mussel called quagga has recently begun eating its way through the phytoplankton population of Lake Michigan, which could have dire effects on the lakes ecosystem, scientists now warn. A giant ring of phytoplankton (microscopic plants such as algae) was discovered in Lake Michigan in 1998 by Michigan Technological Universitybiologist W. Charles Kerfoot and his research team. The phytoplankton doughnut is formed when winter storms kick up nutrient-rich sediment along the southeastern shore of the lake. The disturbed sediments begin circulating in a slow-moving circle with the lakes currents, which provides a massive supply of food for phytoplankton. ... This doughnut, in turn, feeds the entire lake. Zooplankton, tiny animals that feed on phytoplankton, thrive there. The seasonal bloom helps them survive winter. The zooplankton are then eaten by small fish,which are eaten by large fish, and so on thus the doughnut ...

Northwest Indiana is home to miles and miles of sandy beaches along Lake Michigan. There are 14 different beaches from Whiting to M

Theres nothing quite like a sunny 70-something degrees day along the shores of Lake Michigan and today is one of those days. One thing that seems to change with this kind of day is the moods of people as the sunshine seems to brighten everyones day and makes everything seem so much more pleasant. Yes, it may be a Monday, but a sunny kind of Monday that is perfect of beach weather. What more could one ask for in life?. ...

Breeding males are brilliantly colored; the back of the fish and the lateral blotches become an intense, iridescent blue-green, while the ventral portions of the body and head, the spinous dorsal fin and the area between the blotches become brilliant yellow and orange, the latter sometimes punctuated with reddish dots. Important indicators of degraded water quality. They are especially sensitive to sediment loading and probably to organic loading from sewage effluents. Gilt darters are diurnal feeders, feeding most heavily in the afternoon hours. Opportunistic feeding according to the availability of accessable surface-dwelling insects. Juveniles eat caddisfly larvae As caddisfly larvae decreased in relative importance in the diet, midge and black fly larvae increased. Mayfly naiads were most important in the diet of very young darters and in the diet of pre-spawning adults. Length to 7 cm. ...

Crater Lake is located in the Sierra-Cascade Mountains physiographic province along the crest of the Cascade Range in southwestern Oregon (Figure 18. Map showing the Crater Lake Basin and photograph showing Wizard Island and crater rim). Crater Lake occupies the collapsed caldera of Mount Mazama and has an average surface elevation of 1,882 m, a surface area of 53.2 km2, and a maximum depth of 589 m (Larson and others, 1993). The 67.8-km2 drainage basin consists of the lake (53.2 km2) and the steep walls of the caldera (14.6 km2), which reach a maximum elevation of 2,484 m (Larson and others, 1996). The HBN station is located along the northeast shore of the lake in Cleetwood Cove at latitude 42°5845 and longitude 122°0445. The lake receives 85 percent of its inflow by direct precipitation, and the remainder comes from about 40 springs and streams that emanate from the caldera walls (Redmond, 1990). There is no surface flow out of the lake, and the lake level is maintained by a balance ...

This course offers a comprehensive field approach to vascular plants of the region, including characteristic species of terrestrial and wetland habitats as well as species known for their rarity or distinctive distribution patterns. Topics covered include the major plant families of the Great Lakes area, basic terminology and techniques useful in plant identification, the general phytogeography and ecology of the region especially as these relate to recent geological history of the landscape, and field recognition of over 300 selected species. Prior familiarity with at least some families and species will be extremely helpful.. ...

Role: Research within my group is applied in nature and designed to support managers within Fisheries and Oceans Canada, as well as the recovery of Great Lakes Areas of Concern. Towards these efforts, my research group uses tools such as acoustic telemetry to... ...

In the Cologne area, wall lizards (Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768)) have mainly spread along the railway belt and its offshoots into industrial areas. These lizards can mainly be identified as the subspecies Podarcis muralis maculiventris (Werner, 1891), obviously belonging to the West Alps mitochondrial gene group, which normally occurs around the Italian great lakes area on the southern rim of the Alps and is differentiated from the Venetian line by the presence of a blackish vertebral line or row of spots. The original point of introduction cannot be verified with certainty; they may have been introduced with Italian vegetables into the vegetable market in the south of left-bank Cologne; early reports on a first introduction into right-bank Deutz harbour along with building materials, especially stones and marbles from Italy, cannot be ascertained today, as the immediate harbour area does not have any lizards, and lizards occuring on railway tracks south of the southern tip of the harbour ...

DeHaan warned a price hike was likely in the Great Lakes area after watching wholesale gasoline prices spike. DeHaan said changes in wholesale gasoline prices can lead to increases hours later as stations pass along changes in the price they pay for gasoline. Torrential rain has led to shutdowns of some pipelines in the region and refineries have also suffered set backs as the region received record-breaking rainfall ...

Firstly, it implies that the African brewing techniques are more diverse and complex than one might imagine. It was already known that Africa has developed the most multifarious brewing techniques: malting (sprouting) of grains (dolo and the like in West Africa, pombe in eastern Africa, umqombothi in Southern Africa, among many examples), sour brews (coupling lactic/alcoholic fermentations[1]), over-maturation of starchy fruits (plantain beers brewed in the Great Lakes area), insalivation of starchy tubers (yams as a brewing material before the introduction of cassava and sweet potato in the 16th century), or brewing with amylolytic plants (beer called munkoyo in Zambia). The 6th beer brewing method was then missing: the making of amylolytic ferments, or beer starter as it is known in English literature.. Takako Ankeis discovery also calls into question the idea that amylolytic ferments are a Far Asian speciality, a brewing method used exclusively in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. This ...

1. Multiple combined best management practices (BMPs) reduce sediments and increase lake water clarity. As ARS scientists in Oxford, MS, continue to try to improve water quality through the use of agricultural BMPs, there is a need to better understand how effective these BMPs are within an entire watershed. To address this, water quality measurements of water clarity, total suspended sediment and total dissolved solids were collected in Beasley Lake, a Conservation Evaluation Assessment Program watershed in the Mississippi Delta from 1996 to 2009. Results showed how a variety of BMPs in the watershed changed lake water quality. BMPs put in place from 1997-2006 included within-field, edge-of-field, and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) practices. Over the 14 years that lake water quality was studied, the lake had clearer water, less suspended sediments, and lower dissolved solids coinciding with the amount of BMPs put in place and these changes were seen most strongly during spring. The study ...

Some of the earliest human inhabitants of the Lake Michigan region were the Hopewell Native Americans. Their culture declined after 800 AD, and for the next few hundred years, the region was the home of peoples known as the Late Woodland Native Americans. In the early 17th century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Native Americans: the historic Chippewa; Menominee; Sauk; Fox; Winnebago; Miami; Ottawa; and Potawatomi peoples. The French explorer Jean Nicolet is believed to have been the first European to reach Lake Michigan, possibly in 1634 or 1638.[11] In the earliest European maps of the region, the name of Lake Illinois has been found in addition to that of Michigan, named for the Illinois Confederation of tribes.[12] Lake Michigan is joined via the narrow, open-water Straits of Mackinac with Lake Huron, and the combined body of water is sometimes called Michigan-Huron (also Huron-Michigan). The ...

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Huron: Huron, city, seat (1880) of Beadle county, east-central South Dakota, U.S. It lies on the James River about 120 miles (200 km) northwest of Sioux Falls. Established in 1880 as a division headquarters of the Chicago and North Western Railway, it was named for the Huron Indians and developed as an

The Huron Carol is Canadas oldest Christmas song, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. It was originally written in the native tongue of the Huron/Wendat people amongst whom de Brébeuf was stationed and the original song title was Jesous Ahatonhia (Jesus, he is born) in Huron. The melody is based on a traditional French folk song, Une Jeune Pucelle (A Young Maid). [Brief history courtesy of Wiki ...

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Abstract. A series of changes in groundwater systems caused by groundwater exploitation in energy base have been of great concern to hydrogeologists. The research aims to identify the origin and geochemical evolution of groundwater in the Subei Lake basin under the influence of human activities. Water samples were collected, and major ions and stable isotopes (δ18O, δD) were analyzed. In terms of hydrogeological conditions and the analytical results of hydrochemical data, groundwater can be classified into three types: the Quaternary groundwater, the shallow Cretaceous groundwater and the deep Cretaceous groundwater. Piper diagram and correlation analysis were used to reveal the hydrochemical characteristics of water resources. The dominant water type of the lake water was Cl-Na type, which was in accordance with hydrochemical characteristics of inland salt lakes; the predominant hydrochemical types for groundwater were HCO3-Ca, HCO3-Na and mixed HCO3-Ca-Na-Mg types. The groundwater chemistry ...

TheInfoList.com - (Lake_Erie) LAKE ERIE (/ˈɪəri/ ; French : Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five GREAT LAKES Great Lakes in NORTH AMERICA North America , and the thirteenth-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the GREAT LAKES Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time . At its deepest point LAKE Lake Erie is 210 feet (64 metres) deep

This dissertation examined the fate of canopy water in the Findley Lake Basin, WA (47°04 N, 121°25W) during the growing seasons of 1994 and 1995. Field measurements were taken at three sites: Lake (1170 m), Midslope (1230 ...

This dissertation examined the fate of canopy water in the Findley Lake Basin, WA (47°04 N, 121°25W) during the growing seasons of 1994 and 1995. Field measurements were taken at three sites: Lake (1170 m), Midslope (1230 ...

Patches and pools of wildflowers which remain are still sought by people eager to glimpse nature in its spring finery. Prime zones are usually found in the California deserts and the Sierra foothills, as well as valleys and slopes of the Coast Range. In Northern California, a prolonged winter -- culminating in last weeks string of chilly arctic storms -- suppressed spring blooms on the coast and in the foothills. Currently, the Red Hill Road area near Sonora and Bridgeport State Park area near Grass Valley are flourishing (according to guidebook author Toni Fauver), but other areas should do well as the region warms. Source: Wildflower Walks and Roads of the Sierra Gold Country, by Toni Fauver, available from Comstock Bonanza Press for $16.50. When spring reaches higher elevations, use Wildflower Walking in Lakes Basin of the Northern Sierra, same author and publisher, $15. In the North Bay: trails of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, especially in Marin, west slopes of Mount Tamalpais, and

Beyond Pesticides, March 14, 2012) Yet another report documents hazards of chemical-intensive agriculture that could be avoided by switching to organic practices. Nitrate contamination in groundwater from fertilizer and animal manure is severe and getting worse for hundreds of thousands of residents in Californias farming communities, according to a study released by researchers at University of California Davis. The report states the problem is likely to worsen, threatening ground water wells and eventually drinking water.. According to the report, Addressing Nitrate in Californias Drinking Water, nitrate runoff from agricultural regions is one of the states most widespread groundwater contaminants. Nearly 10 percent of the 2.6 million people living in the Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley might be drinking nitrate-contaminated water, the report found. If nothing is done to stem the problem, the report warns, those at risk for health and financial problems may number nearly 80 percent by ...

Wet meadows are a type of marsh that commonly occurs in poorly drained areas such as shallow lake basins, low-lying farmland, and the land between shallow marshes and upland areas. Some wet meadows are found high in the mountains on poorly drained soil. These wetlands, which often resemble grasslands, are typically drier than other marshes except during periods of seasonal high water. For most of the year wet meadows are without standing water, though the high water table allows the soil to remain saturated. A variety of water-loving grasses, sedges, rushes, and wetland wildflowers proliferate in the highly fertile soil of wet meadows.. ...

In December 2002, participants at a workshop convened by the Lake Erie Millennium Network (LEMN) identified topics for future habitat-related research and development needs. The first of these needs was to develop a unified habitat classification and integrated map of the Lake Erie basin. A binationally integrated and consensus-based habitat classification would be used to track progress toward achieving ecosystem objectives and would facilitate habitat management and restoration in the Lake Erie Basin in the US and Canada. LEMN researchers received a US EPA - GLNPO grant to carry out this work ...

April 24, 2014 - Ontario posts draft regulations re: the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement. The regulatory amendments (pdf; 11 pages) would bring the Agreement (signed in 2005!) into full force. Comments were welcome on this proposal until until June 9, 2014. The Agreement commits the provinces and states that share the Great Lakes to better protect, conserve and restore the waters of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin.. December 11, 2014 - Rising Great Lakes water levels end 15-year low period . CBC. March 19, 2014 - Corps to study St. Clair River speedbumps. Sarnia Observer. March 14, 2014 - New study on Lake Erie Phosphorus challenges, algae, and hypoxia. From EcoFore. Listen to the radio interview on NPR Michigan.. March 7, 2014 - Georgian Bay water levels (may be) rising Orillia Packet. February 19, 2014 - Minister of Environment seeks to break legislative stalemate on Great Lakes Act, Anti-Slapp legislation by appealing to the NDP. See ...

On Thursday, July 12, 2012, the Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue (SAR) Team responded to aid a 74 year old man from Markleeville, California, who was hiking the John Muir Trail west of Shadow Lake. He had begun experiencing chest pains. Other backpackers used a cell phone to call 911. The Team requested the assistance of the Yosemite National Park helicopter to extract the man from the backcountry. The helicopter was able to land near him and transported him to a waiting ambulance at the Mammoth Lakes Forest Service helipad. He was taken to Mammoth Hospital for treatment.. ...

Minnesota has 11,842 lakes, 18,000 miles of fishable rivers and streams and has 90,000 miles of coastline, more than California, Hawaii and Florida combined. And will all that fishable space come 35,400 Minnesota jobs.. Of the million and a half licensed fishermen in Minnesota about 855,000 of them are urban anglers. And the Brainerd Lakes Chamber of Commerce says its important to get them up to the Brainerd Lakes Area not just to fish but to spend money.. With a warmer spring the fishing and boating seasons are already off to a fast start and both industries say theyre expecting it to carry into the summer fishing season.. Last year the Brainerd Lakes Area got about two and half million dollars of ad exposure across Minnesota. And they Brainerd Lakes Chamber says this summer theyll see how many extra fishermen that ad money will bring in.. ...