The Alliance for the Great Lakes and the Ocean Conservancy invite you to join hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide in cleaning up beaches and shorelines on Saturday, September 19, during the 2015 Adopt-a-Beach™ event held in Michigan and other Great Lakes states. The annual Adopt-a-Beach™ event is part of the International Coastal Cleanup organized […]
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute’s R/V Dawn Treader is mostly full of scuba-diving equipment with two maritime archeologists and three volunteer divers from Madison squished in between. They came to Manitowoc County to survey the S.C. Baldwin shipwreck, a requirement to add the vessel to the state, and eventually national, Register of Historic […]
editors note: This article provided by the Great lakes Lighthouse Keepers association In October 1975, the Ontonagon Lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December 2000, President Clinton signed the bill giving the lighthouse to the Ontonagon County Historical Society. In August 2003, the Ontonagon County Historical Society received ownership […]
Summer is in full swing in Michigan, and with it comes great opportunity for outdoor activities – including fishing. The state’s waters provide ample opportunity to catch a variety of fish, and Great Lakes and inland fishing charter businesses are a perfect way to experience those angling adventures first-hand. Licensed fishing charters make a full […]
About 360 wrecks have been found in the lake’s deep water, but there are still many wrecks out there that remain undiscovered. Experts guess there are between 1200 and 2000 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan. On Feb. 9, 1899 the 214-foot John V. Moran maneuvered ice floes on its way from Milwaukee to Muskegon to deliver […]
Piping Plovers, are expected to return to the dunes and shores of the Great Lakes in the coming weeks, according to Vince Cavalieri with the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service. Typically the first pairs show up on the week of April 6, with the rest of the flock in a few weeks. Known for their […]
3/15/2015 It can be a luxurious feeling to apply a good skin cleanser to your face and feel the accumulated dirt, grime and oils wash away. But it turns out such seemingly innocent indulgence carries an unexpected environmental cost, particularly for those of us who live near the Great Lakes. The unexpected culprits are micro […]
A species of shrimp native to Eastern Europe is now a cause for concern for biologists studying the Great Lakes. Its scientific name is Dikerogammarus villosus, but experts know this voracious crustacean simply as the killer shrimp. The shrimp itself is only about an inch long, but its large mandibles make it an aggressive predator and […]
Visitors to the $12.1 million National Museum of the Great Lakes will find a family friendly atmosphere. There have been 8,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The shipwrecks are compelling tales. They amount to one shipwreck every 11 days for the last 250 years. There are more shipwrecks per surface square mile on the Great […]