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Connecting the Great Lakes Coastal Future
This week dozens of participants came from all over the Great Lakes – Minnesota to Pennsylvania – to gain the tools necessary to protect Great Lakes coastal habitat in a changing climate. The Great Lakes, often referred to as our… Read more >
Jump-starting Restoration: Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition Announces Grants to Help Great Lakes
Growing up swimming in the clear, cool water of Lake Superior I was blissfully unaware that the Great Lakes were under attack. I had a pretty good grasp of environmental issues in my hometown – I knew why we didn’t… Read more >
Toxic Algae Bloom Confirmed in Western Lake Erie
Julie Mida Hinderer is a research assistant at the NWF Great Lakes Regional Center, working on a report on nutrients and harmful algal blooms. It’s official – western Lake Erie is experiencing its first toxic algae bloom of the year…. Read more >
What Does Green Mean To African Americans?
As a child my sisters and I would sometimes share bath water and shop at the Goodwill for Sunday dresses. My great grandma would unearth worms to go fishing and all the fish she didn’t cook, were buried in a… Read more >
Asian Carp: Not Grandma’s Type of Fish
Early memories of fishing with our grandma included regular warnings to never eat the carp! As a child, the actively agile carp was a tough fish to get into the boat once it was hooked. Successful bouts at pulling them… Read more >
Realities of a Tar Sands Oil Spill, One Year Later
Around this time last year, I made an emergency trip home to Battle Creek, Mich., after hearing reports of a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. The oil disaster gushed nearly 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into… Read more >
Tell Congress to Stop Slashing Great Lakes Restoration
Celia Haven works on Great Lakes Restoration and Climate Adaptation at NWF’s Great Lakes Regional Center. Efforts to restore the Great Lakes could suffer a huge blow in the next week as the Interior-Environmental Protection Agency funding bill moves to… Read more >
Climate Change Makes Us Sick – Literally
Julie Mida Hinderer, a graduate of the Aquatic Sciences master’s program at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, is a research assistant at NWF’s Great Lakes Regional Center. She is currently working on a report on… Read more >
Take Action to Stop Power Plants from Shredding Fish
I’m a student in upstate New York, and feel grateful to get to look out on Cayuga Lake every day. It has always been a vibrant ecosystem, and the community in the village of Aurora that surrounds this national treasure… Read more >
Book shows value of Great Lakes restoration
One of John Hartig’s most poignant childhood memories is of a day in 1969, when he looked out the window of his parent’s suburban Detroit home and saw the unimaginable: The Rouge River was ablaze. “I could see from my… Read more >
