Record High Water Levels Threaten Shoreline

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Pere Marquette Park Muskegon Michigan
In 2013, Lake Michigan lake levels bottomed out after a 15-year span of lows that was the longest in recorded history.  Now, the high-water is sending the roughly 4.2 million people who live within two miles of the coast scrambling. 2019 which was the wettest on record in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and precipitation was

Carbon Dioxide Could Keep Asian Carp out of Great Lakes

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USGS Asian Carp Pond
In a research pond in La Crosse, Wisconsin, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and U.S. Geological Survey are testing the effectiveness of a new strategy to ward off an Asian carp invasion that’s threatening the health of the Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan.  The study called for placing a carbon dioxide infusion