Friday, April 11, 2025
Inaugural BoatUS Foundation ‘Turning the Tide Online’ Summit Inspires Attendees to Say, ‘I Will,’ and Provides Solutions for Boating Industry-Generated Waste BoatUS Foundation’s “Turning the Tide Online” summit highlighted three days of educational resources, enlightening panels and keynoteMonday, September 16, 2024
10 Million Pieces of Litter Collected from Great Lakes Shorelines Chicago, IL (September 4, 2024) – The Alliance for the Great Lakes announced an Adopt-a-Beach milestone. In the twenty-one years the Alliance has been tracking trash collected by the organization’s dedicated volunteers, more than 10 million pieces ofMonday, November 20, 2023
The Sea Hunter III passenger ferry. Photo courtesy of Grand Portage Isle Royale Transportation Lines. Don Szczech can't count the number of times he's voyaged between Grand Portage and Isle Royale, but he knows it's well over 1,000. Over the decades, not much has changed about the journey between Minnesota's easternmost pointTuesday, October 17, 2023
David Cichosz pictured with his record-breaking coho salmon (Courtesy of DNR) (Supplied) ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota angler David Cichosz broke a 53-year-old state record with a coho salmon he caught during a fishing trip on Lake Superior in September. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) certifiedWednesday, October 11, 2023
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – A major maritime shoreline revitalization project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will bring both economic and climate benefits when it expectedly reopens to the public next summer. The multi-million-dollar project involves repairs at the old Union Carbide Dock seawall in Sault Ste. Marie, cleanupThursday, October 5, 2023
Fall means popular splake fishing on Lake Superior. And the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking anglers to help them understand better how the fish live in the largest Great Lake. The DNR has stocked splake, a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout, in Lake Superior most years since 1971, and every year sinceThursday, September 28, 2023
A Fond du Lac Band member holds up a lake trout netted on Lake Superior in August. It was the band's first tribal netting in the big lake in more than 160 years. Contributed / Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa DULUTH — Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have netted lake trout inMonday, September 11, 2023
A surfer and a seagull walk along a Lake Superior beach in Duluth on Sept. 7, 2023. Water levels on the lake are still above their long-term average, but they rose little during the summer due to dry conditions. Danielle Kaeding/WPR Water levels on the Great Lakes rose sharply earlier this year due to a very wet spring, but theyTuesday, August 29, 2023
Duluth leaders are looking to better forecast rip current conditions, and have launched a water safety buoy off Park Point to do so. The Fire Department deployed the buoy about 1,000 meters off the shore. It reports data to the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), and measures waves, wind, water temperature, and more. The informationThursday, August 17, 2023
The ongoing drought that has plagued Wisconsin over the last couple of months has had little to no impact on the water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. What You Need To Know Water levels on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior remain above average Very little change has occurred in the lake levels over the last month
