Category: Great Lakes
Locals Want Great Lakes Cut Off
Asian carp, the aqua-locusts. At this point, no one has a clue how to stop these things. Meaning really stop ‘em. They’ve been charging up the Mississippi River, and the massive bureaucracy that is the Army Corps of Engineers is studying whether to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal, which connects the Mississippi to [...]
Great Lakes Fishing May Eventually Die
Seriously. A study came out recently about non-native zebra and quagga mussels literally killing the food chain in lakes Michigan and Huron. And I quote: Two closely related species of mussels — the zebra and quagga — [are] stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a remarkable ecological transformation and threatening the multibillion-dollar [...]
